Bodyline Casualty - the Bert Oldfield Story will explore previously unknown details of his war service, his part in the Bodyline series, his role in the development of women’s cricket, his kind gesture to England captain Douglas Jardine, his testy relationship with Don Bradman and friendship with former combatant England fast bowler Harold Larwood.
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.
In this beautifully constructed Russian doll of a novel, two Australian women leave their homeland in search of a room of their own in which to forge their art. Stella Bowen studies painting in London where she meets among other literati, wild Ezra Pound and the bearlike charming Ford Madox Ford with whom she lives in the countryside, has a child ......
A daring literary romp through a surreal landscape Copello's latest offering recasts the Biblical prophet Jeremiah in a dystopian world instantly familiar to the reader by its environmental degradation social inequality and political injustice. Just as the ancient Jeremiah inhabited turbulent times and came close to giving up so too does ......
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.
After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia the country of her birth at the request of her aging narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered haunting mysteries solved and ......
