“Judith E. P. Johnson has that crucial characteristic for haiku poets an ability to notice the minor miracles of ordinary existence – a blackbird bathing in a dog’s bowl daisies ankle-deep on a lawn the reflection of a jasmine flower in a rain puddle – these are acute observations that transform everyday life into ......
‘This first book is packed with clear-eyed veracity offers a shining resilience personal insight and shared comfort…we are enjoined a chorus.’ – Les Wicks
Few poets express the meeting of nature and emotion as tenderly as Susan McCreery. Her poems open with images of nature and draw the reader in to scenarios ......
Kevin Densley’s poetry has been published in various Australian and UK magazines over the past fifteen years including Quadrant The Adelaide Review LiNQ Muse New England Review Vernacular Mattoid Redoubt Verandah Tamba Space Other Poetry (UK) The Journal (UK) Cadenza (UK) Monkey Kettle ......
These fifteen stories range in time from contemporary Australia to sixties Britain in location from Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to France. In the title story a woman sits each day at the bedside of her comatose former lover as he clings to life her only consolation in the long hours of watching and waiting are the novels of Leo Tolstoy ......
For me poetry is observational and emerges from personal experience. This book contains a selection of poems that I have written over the years - a kind of distillation of things I have seen that have moved me interspersed with poems that I simply like. You may notice that a significant number of the poems are to do with various aspects of ......
Nicola Knox was brought up in country Victoria and her work has always been influenced by the landscapes of childhood despite living since marrying in Sydney that most urban of cities. She worked as a journalist and in public relations with a bypass to writing advertising copy which looking back is probably an excellent day job for a poet. ......
'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 ......
V8 takes you on a journey in every form of vehicle from the car to the bicycle the ute to the train. Two poets reflect on their love of cars the issues that arise from transport and the many roads they have travelled.
'PS Cottier is not an easy poet - she does not play nicely with the other poets is not domesticated. Utterly is the work of a significant Australian writer. It is also the work of a smoking muscle-car loving clever as fuck Canberra girl - devastatingly truthful terrifying and funny. I defy any poetry lover to read these poems and ......
