A Way Less Travelled features different ways of looking at the world around us and the actions of people trying to see everyday things in a different light. It is inspired by the poetry and paintings of William Blake sharing his spiritual focus on the symbolism of Jerusalem and expressing a concern for justice and world peace.
'Kathleen brings to her poetry a short story writer's ability to create character. She has an eye for gesture and movement as well as an ear for the nuances of speech. Her poems are often portraits of interesting people brought to life through precise images and vocabulary in strong lines that reflect reality in the lives of her characters ......
Thérèse Corfiatis seeks out beauty and spirit in simple things: the curl of a wave the flight of cockatoos ‘yellow-flecked tails flashing / like airborne sunflowers’ (‘Black Cockatoos’). She searches for ancestral homeland and belonging – ‘my dispossession torn away / a birthing wound healed ......
Early mornings there's a busy twittering singing squawking from all sorts of birds as they start their day. Late at night I hear the sighing of the surf and thumping of the waves on Coniston Beach in the middle distance and frogs kero-kero-ing in the garden ponds. In between are my adagio days.
Close to a hundred poems by over sixty poets who will take you all over the city of Adelaide - from Elder Park to Whitmore Square Rundle Mall to South Terrace the Botanic Gardens to North Adelaide and many places in between.
Adèle Ogiér Jones has worked internationally for more than two decades much of it in development more recently in regions affected by conflict. From 2004 to 2006 when these poems were written she lived in Afghanistan leading the education program of the Aga Khan Foundation in northern and central provinces. Political themes are common in ......
'These stories draw us into the many worlds of Carol Patterson's imagination and experience and we immediately become invested as readers in the characters and the dilemmas they face. The narrative thrust along with skilfully constructed dialogue lead us through the underbrush of human emotions make us scale the dangerous slopes of risk ......
Christopher Palmer was born in Brisbane in 1969 and raised in the UK. He has lived in many places since returning to Australia in 1987 and currently lives in Canberra where he completed a PhD in the biological sciences in 2005. He’s happiest in the ecotone between the arts and sciences and moves habitually between both. His poetry has ......
Stories of love kindness desire and revenge. Frank sets off on his bike to help people in his coastal village and stumbles upon a scene that changes his life. A journalist reflects on his betrayal of a colleague in Korea and resolves to make amends. Two former lovers reunite unexpectedly in Japan and visit the place that holds the secret of ......
