My love for the water of the sea of river bay and ocean from childhood to now its call is strong and I yearn to be close to the flow of tides. In Aquamarine include poems on the tragedy of refugees who came to us by boat seeking refuge. There are poems about convicts and slaves floods and climate change. It is a collection ......
Virgilio Goncalves has worked out finally why he has a nomadic bent. It's because a lot of the time he's seeking the tribe that truly typifies him. Is he South African Australian or Portuguese? Place has loomed like a restless shadow in his life. But which of the three countries to which he has ties is the one most a part of him? This ......
A former lecturer in Greek Roman and Ancient Near Eastern history and literature at the University of Tasmania Graeme Hetherington has spent much of his adult life living at large in Europe and Turkey to be closer to the source of his subject matter. More often than not his response to his culturally charged surroundings has taken the form ......
Aubrey believed that life was a game a test to be played in the best way he could. He was born when South Australia was seventy-three years old. Over a century later when he died a nation had been built people had endured two world wars and a depression technology had changed communications forever and society was accepting standards that ......
'Loss longing and nostalgia infuse the poems in this poignant collection. Some poems are elegiac some confessional others alert to environmental exploitation sexuality and human suffering. Here is a poet engaged with his world and showing us what it is to remember to question to see and feel.' - Julie Maclean
A young woman suddenly confronts the life she walked away from. A loving husband must make a pact with the devil to keep his wife. A passionate collector must choose between a priceless work of art and a human life. Ten stories of individuals caught between worlds forced to make stark unpalatable choices to survive.
Spanning a life from the 1950s to the present this memoir begins with very South Australian roots; German and Cornish. It shines a light on some key events that helped shape the social consciousness of many Baby Boomers. A rigid school system Bob Dylan hippies drugs and protest. But it also reflects on a life challenged by family mental ......
A road trip along the Hume Highway with some opinionated voices from Australia's history
It’s a fact not yet universally acknowledged that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway preferably in the company of Captain Cook Henry Lawson Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly. Backseat Drivers is a hilarious and biting ......
