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 ......
In the title story of this collection Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious prank. A manager tries to molest her. These events occur in the stories set in a fictitious agency where she is a badly treated casual. In 'Bad ......
It was during the Sui Dynasty (AD 581-601) that China first introduced tea to Japan but the gentle art of tea drinking did not fully take root until the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1127-1279) when a Japanese monk called Eisai returned from the Zhejiang Province bringing with him the seeds for the first plantations and the principles of the Tea ......
'Carol Patterson deserves much wider recognition for her brilliant mastery of the short story form. Each story immerses the reader in an entirely different vividly depicted setting with complex and contrasting characters. Patterson brings these characters to life as they confront a range of human dilemmas and emotional challenges. Her work is ......
Voracious is a mythical beast. He lives on profits and is always hungry. A Midas beast all he touches becomes a commodity. He appears in or is hinted at throughout this collection of beautifully crafted poems. In her seventh poetry collection Karen Throssell includes poems about obesity and anorexia agribusiness diets and fads the ......
Five Ordinary Men is a collection of five stories each focusing on a different man though the reader may think the book title is a misnomer and question whether some or all of the men are 'ordinary' at all. One man inexplicably commits a terrible crime and relates aspects of his life trying to explain his actions both to himself and ......
