Part memoir part social commentary this is a Stolen Generations story with a difference. Told from the perspective of a non-Indigenous foster sister The Chosen Son recounts one woman's lifelong quest to come to terms with her family's role in colonial policies that separated Indigenous children from their parents.
Oliver Freeman invites readers to share the emotional and intellectual journey he has made as a poet from small beginnings when he was a child in London to his adult reflections on love life family and more - initially in England and for the last 40 years in Australia.
The book title honours his debt to John Keats and the romantic ......
This collection is made up of occasional verse which is to say poems written only occasionally. They make no claim on merit as 'high art' from someone centrally engaged in questions of literary craft except in so far as they try to follow Ezra Pound's nostrum that a poem should be an appropriate mix of thought music and image. The poems arise ......
A lake in the smallest state on the North East coast of America becomes a home of security and love for a couple who has wandered the world. It is where they also experience fear pain and grief before they become parents of a tiny daughter.
They sail on the lake experience the dramatic ......
Flow is a collection of poems inspired by the North-West coast of Tasmania explored during the isolation of the pandemic. These works reflect the region's geography and history-rivers cascading from highland crags to the sea towns growing at estuaries and people who gradually turned their gaze inland.
This collection had its beginnings in the shame, sadness and disbelief that was felt by many after the result of the Voice referendum in 2023. The poems here passionately express those reactions and also unflinchingly explore some of the truths about Australia and its history that if they had been more widely known, might have led to a different ......
At fourteen Sophie Kamler crossed the Atlantic alone from Poland to America. At sixteen she paid for her siblings and mother to follow. At eighteen a penniless wife then a mother of three she defied New York gangsters.
At fifty six a widow she married again only to be widowed a second time. Matriarch to a sprawling but ......
Being holed up on an outback sheep station for nearly three years has been one of the best experiences of my life. From the spectacular landscape of the Flinders Ranges to the beauty of the people we came to know I will have lasting memories to make me smile - even though at times the life was hard challenging and tempers got ......
