'Carol Chandler's writing subtly compels you into a "dark wood" of her characters' "niggling restlessness"so you feel you have one foot in ordinary "reality" and one (metaphorical) foot in the dubious illumination of dream/memory/speculation... These are forcefully charged fragments of (dis)connection where glittering surfaces and shadowy ......
'Bill Wootton's poems are kites flown in the sky of our daily lives - hold on to them go with them.' - Ross Gillett
'Bill Wootton is an empathetic poet with a clear and focused voice. His finely detailed and artfully compressed narrative poems are like mini-novels or movies. His work is accessible yet deep infused with ......
Washday Pockets is a collection of poems that will delight any reader. Written in an accessible language domestic relationships are examined in all their grittiness. It is an honest disclosure of domestic life where sorrow loss and separation are interwoven with love humour and an over-riding celebration of life.
The Warm Corners women are connected by place and by relation-ship. All have spent time on the land called ‘Warm Corners’ shaped by the Jingalalla River. Their children grew up in this remote and beautiful place in the foothills of the Snowies which has a way of calling people back. As this collection shows the Warm Corners women ......
‘These days many individual collections of poetry (and some anthologies as well) are presented in language which all too often offers the particular experiences of the poets as if they were clues in a cryptic crossword. If we could only put those poetic hints together (we tell ourselves) we’d be in a position to know what they were ......
Stories of laughter and tears. A jealous young woman is trapped in remote bushland. Should she save her husband or let him die? A man travelling on top of a train during the Depression hurtles towards a tunnel not knowing if his head will be chopped off. Wartime prime minister Ben Chifley spins the chocolate wheel in a country town. An Irish ......
There are so many words for wanting: longing yearning lusting lacking craving desiring aspiring dreaming hungering… To want is to be human to experience both the agony and the exquisite anticipatory movement towards what is beyond present reality. So wanting is both spiritual and earthy. It is a relishing of possibilities ......
A frank account of a four-year struggle with a force that cannot be reasoned with - bipolar. Everybody experiences stress guilt and grief; we all have days when we don't like ourselves very much. Imagine waking up one day and that is all you feel for months and months. But if we are never awake in darkness we can never truly appreciate the ......
Walk the Wildly with Lizz Murphy in this her fifth collection of poetry where winter is a lumbering lantern-jawed season spring is a baking back untimely frost a trollop. There are women of precise skirts men with shipwrecked backs and locals who inspect the brash blue foreheads strained like fence wire. Reflecting on absence and ......
