Taking us across culture and landscapes and evoking other states Derek Baines’s new collection touches raw nerves and brings humour to some of our most challenging experiences. A lone traveller enjoys hospitality at an ancient Japanese inn an insomniac artist produces a masterwork from his subconscious and a marathon runner moves out ......
Avril Bradley emigrated from England to Australia in 1971. Her poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies since 2006. She was a performance poet in Poetry Idol at The Melbourne Writers’ Festival (2007–2011). She received an honorary degree from The University of Roehampton (London) in May 2017. She lives in Frankston ......
‘Megan Schaffner knows how poetry works. She knows the way a strong poem can float you gently to somewhere you’ve never been before/ [where] with luck/ you’ll land wrong side up/ exhilarated/ ready to explore a new country. This is precisely what Megan’s poetry does. As soon as you land you realise you are in the hands ......
At twenty Anna married an ambitious computer scientist. Now twelve years later they have three young daughters. Yet something vital is missing. He is more away than at home and she dreams of an equal love. But she dreads the price of breaking free. Within a year the marriage shatters and her children are abducted overseas. In the vengeful ......
Dick a disillusioned husband and lawyer living in a middle-class 1997 London suburb stands dressed in period costume on a railway platform. Dick is convinced he is in the middle of a dream but his adventures become ever more curious tantalising and amazingly real!He shares a compartment with some country folk travelling to old London Town. ......
It was an act of simple kindness for an Australian couple to take two Czech refugees from post World War II Europe into their working-class home. They could never have foreseen the tensions these sophisticated Europeans would create or the life-changing impact they would have on their teenage daughter. A Promise of Peaches explores ......
Cancer is a disease with a persona of mystery often referred to through the use of negative metaphors such as alien evil and foreign while its medical treatment and recovery phases are described with warfare metaphors and sadly when death is the end result one is said to have lost their battle with cancer. However Cameron in this debut ......
‘What is impressive is the ambit of this collection the way Morgan explores with equal authority the natural world history mythology the vagaries of humankind and grief. A finely-tuned intelligence shines through these poems which are lexically rich and jam-packed with precise imagery. Her poems marry the down-to-earth to the ......
Two stories. Two individuals. One journey. One destiny.
Caught Between Love and Loss
Richard’s dream is to get out of the city and build a house in the country. When he meets Rachel there’s suddenly a reason to stay. Can he convince her to live amongst the beauty of nature? Rachel takes her first step towards this new ......
