Hidden in deep grass beyond the line of the distant ridge half-remembered hopes fall prey to savage chance and lie broken or finding fresh earth rise again with tender growth. The stories of Wheelbarrow Ridge are each a landscape populated by searchers who yearn for the horizon that they have never crossed or whose need for ......
Parenting a child through the first year of gender transition
Lyndsay Brown’s journey as the parent of a transgender child started on 25 October 2017 at about eight-fifteen p.m. It was abrupt and shocking with no prior contemplations or parental imaginings to pave the way. It was the birth of a daughter she had absolutely not anticipated even for a single moment in her life until then.
Brendan lives within a short walk of Wentworth Falls Lake in the upper Blue Mountains of New South Wales and finds pleasure inspiration and renewal in the changing seasons and moods of this body of water that was created when European settlers dammed Jamison Creek in 1878 to supply water for the steam trains that carried passengers to and ......
'These poems record a life lived sensuously and to the full in three countries: Italy Ireland and Australia. In an era when eros-charged descriptions of foreign feasts make best-selling travel books and TV programs this book will find a large audience. But Luke Whitington is far more than a sensualist whose mind's tongue curves inquisitively ......
He's a man used to getting what he wants. Single-minded and focussed he sets goals and inevitably achieves his aims. He loves his wife. But love is a living thing. It needs constant nourishment. Although his love for her is ever-present it is not burning brightly enough. He embarks on a clandestine affair with a married woman who is part ......
What is juggling? For the purposes of this history juggling is broadly defined as the manipulation of objects. So this book discusses hoop rolling plate spinning traditional club and ball juggling hat juggling and lots of balancing. There are also many discussions of individual jugglers including international visitors like Cinquevalli and ......
'Of course Whale-shocked is about whales the shocking history of whaling and our changing attitudes to it. Written as a remarkable long-form poem Sue Aldred uses her own family history from the 1800s when her ancestor sailed on the killer boats at a time when whales were seen only as a resource there for the plunder through to ......
Jennifer Chrystie’s poems have been published widely in Australia as well as in the UK and US. Her first poetry collection Polishing the Silver (Ginninderra Press 2006) was commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers Anne Elder Award.
‘This is a thoughtful and diverse collection rich with imagery… ......
'Seasoned poets Jean McArthur and Linda M. Walker have captured the earthy and the ethereal. Keen observers of people of moods past and present they have splayed their poems to weave a strong poetic narrative where "stories patch/together bits and pieces". Through highly-charged language and rich imagery Weather Eyes takes us on a ......
