First Refuge is a collection of poems marking the twentieth birthday of Ginninderra Press as an independent Australian publisher. In 2006 to celebrate Ginninderra Press’s tenth birthday fifty poems were selected by Michael Byrne and published in the collection entitled On Common Water. As well as more recent ......
Why has poetry fallen so sadly by the literary wayside of our hectic digital age? An age if ever there was one needing the kind of humanising empathy that readable (and quotable) poetry can provide. One of the central problems facing poetry today is that we seem to have forgotten (in some cases perhaps deliberately) its link to the emotional ......
"Poems in Neon Moons reflect lives that rise above deprivation and suffering that find joy in their surroundings. Angela Johnson has a well-developed instinct for the transcendent moment and the lyricism to communicate it." - Margaret Bradstock
"Angela Johnson’s poetry celebrates ‘the small ......
‘The imagery and sound in Johnson’s landscape pieces such as ‘Embroidery’ and ‘Endlessly Passing’ showcase this poet at her lyrical best.’ - Lesley Walter
‘The emotional honesty of her writing is impressive; so is the questioning intelligence behind these vivid vignettes.’ - Jean ......
"Robyn Mathison casts a curious and compassionate eye over the natural world and all its inhabitants. Her sense of wonder gives equal measure to cats hens historical figures and family members. The poems engage with provocative questions: Where will memory be when my body leaves? (‘Quiet House’) and arresting ......
Jessica Raschke uses words as shards reflecting fragmented emotional states. Her poems in this collection Luscious Glass Cage glisten with confidence as they ricochet between the abstract and the deeply felt. But feelings are seen as capable of deception and like reflections in a mirror they are reversed and distorted. Despite a ......
Enter The Beguilings a seductive world of striking poems that break through the confines of expectation in love intimacy and identity. By turns illuminating and provocative Jessica Raschke’s second poetry collection reveals connections and collision points between sensual and spiritual needs. Raschke’s writing is ......
In 2014 George Huitker decided to merge his love of music and service education and convinced his band Junk Sculpture to undertake a life-changing tour of north-western New South Wales. This was the very region where his service learning program was introducing his urban-based students to rural communities to gain a better understanding of ......
'With sharp satire and fierce feminism Pamela Burton’s years of legal practice are put to devastating use in this interrogation of a murder mystery and the rollicking incompetence of ASIO super sleuths. The stench of rot from Operation Fishnet and its web of corrupt and greedy men with an eye to illegal immigration and boatloads of ......
