‘If Cliché is a democratically elected form of truth then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the cross-benches. He’s been warned by the Speaker.’ – Mike Ladd (poet founding presenter/producer of ABC RN’s Poetica)
The tin can school of a remote Aboriginal community in outback Central Australia; the earthy stoic people of the desert; a young bold adventurous woman from the south set free amidst it all. What could possibly go wrong? With humour and warmth Linda Wells captures the joy the wonder and the hardships of life as a schoolteacher at ......
Rebellious teenager Phillip is sent to live with Kate who raised him as a child when his mother Venice was in thrall to heroin. Set in coastal Victoria and then in Paris Sea Pictures charts Phillip’s coming of age as well as Kate’s life in her local community and her relationship with the glamorous and volatile ......
‘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 ......
Bill Cotter’s poems and stories have appeared in literary journals and magazines throughout Australia. He has won a number of literary awards including the International Library of Poetry competition the Maryborough Golden Wattle Festival poetry competition and the Melbourne Shakespeare Society’s sonnet competition. His work has ......
Sometimes dramatic sometimes delicate always to the point Tessa Bremner’s collection of short stories presents a very poignant view of the lives of her characters and their struggle to have their voices heard above the noise of cultural sensibilities. In her storytelling Bremner draws on a lifetime in theatre to make her characters ......
One thing we can be sure of in life is that nothing will stay the same. But is that all we can count on? Featuring poems from an intense period of change this collection explores what remains the same when everything is different.
"It is through the creative arts that we can place ourselves inside the experiences of others and feel the many-dimensional nature of humanity. Though poetry may be considered as a ‘gentle art’ it can be uncompromisingly powerful and demanding. The poetry in this collection is an anthem to the experiences forged through travel ......
D.J. Dowsett was born in Taree NSW in 1951. He was educated in sciences at Sydney Macquarie and Cambridge universities and worked as a physicist and mathematical programmer until retiring in 2011. He moved from Glebe in Sydney to the NSW Southern Highlands in 1989 and has had poetry published in various small magazines over the last two ......
