Warning: do not buy this book if all you want is a boring travel guide. Buy it only if you are interested in personal reflections and observations mostly sane but some completely insane history and the odd poem for good measure put together in 2022 in the post Covid lockdown era when I travelled from Port Albert to the tip of Cape York and ......
The almost inescapable presence of TV advertising and social media in our lives means we are being constantly bombarded by information. News can be about devastation by natural forces or the unspeakable atrocities of man's inhumanity to his fellow beings. We are exposed to the appalling behaviour of so-called world leaders and wonder why our ......
Each stage in a person's life comes with different thoughts and feelings about life. For instance it's often thought that the impressionability and sometimes impulsiveness of youth gives way to the sober reflections of mature age. Poetry is the perfect medium for capturing the evocations of different stages. The 'journey' of artists may also ......
'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 ......
A care worker's unwise interest in a dementia client leads him into a dark labyrinth. A man intent on suicide happens on his doppelganger. An abandoned woman wonders whether her lover's crime might prove his love. Eight new stories to beguile and captivate.
What protection do females have from the social culture moulding the humans they develop into? The fourteen sharply perceptive tales in A Feminine Perspective celebrate the quiet courage within each woman's heart.
Cynthia Sidney Hallam grew up in Lismore and now lives in the Blue Mountains. Her short stories poems and articles have appeared in magazines and anthologies and her poems have been performed on stage and read on ABC radio. She has been awarded a Writing Fellowship Degree by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. Going Forward is the ......
'Herein we find poetry replete with eloquence and imagination with the ages and stages of life of dreamtime and daytime heartache and humour. Within this book we find the work of an artist who loves words a writer who is in love with Creation itself. Each poem has a sense of story. Each one throbs with life being lived - the deep steady ......
Mark d'Arbon is a retired academic who has spent the greater part of his adult life teaching in a wide range of settings including a couple of years in Papua New Guinea. He has been writing poetry for many of those forty years having poems published in a variety of anthologies. The first collection of his own poems was published in 2018 ......
