The year is 1982 and Adolf Hitler has been living anonymously on the south coast of New South Wales for almost thirty years waging small wars with his neighbours and the local council. Until one day during the height of the Falklands War his old comrade Martin Bormann comes to visit bearing a secret that will affect both their ......
Exploring issues like the need to respect a fragile environment and the rights of marginalised people (with quite a focus placed on migration) this collection is underpinned by the belief we should show greater care for fellow humans; for our world; for other living things.
Famously in the twentieth century Frank O'Hara spends his lunch hour stepping out of the Museum of Modern Art to type poems on shop demonstration typewriters. Following his accidental death on Fire Island he becomes a legend in his own lifetime. Watson's extended riff on these lunch perambulations addresses this first legend.An ......
Two Green Parrots positions our lives in a broader ecological context. Anne M. Carson’s poems affirm human culture and values in the face of implacable realties. Beauty and suffering are skilfully interwoven to create poems with the meditative power to move and sustain.
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 ......
Over several decades Ursula Nixon has written poetry to share with friends and fellow poets. She has performed at poetry festivals and gatherings on the Monaro and on the NSW South Coast and more recently has been challenged by poetry slams writing in limited time to themes suggested by the audience. The poems in Twist and Knot ......
The story of Tristan is well known in the Western tradition of Romance. Few have not heard of Wagner's opera and the love elixir which Tristan and Iseut drink by accident. The story is already well established in the early medieval period where there are several competing manuscripts most of them incomplete for various reasons. John Watson ......
“Margaret Clark’s poetry is a joy. I loved Frayed Edges her first book and I read it in one sitting such was my delight! In this marvellous new collection Clark continues her insightful foray into the experiences of a life well-spent. Her excellent use of metaphor is a powerful tool. For instance Clark skilfully ......
Wendell Watt lives in Sydney. Apart from family her two loves have been science and writing. She chose science for a secure livelihood but now writing takes top place. Her work has been published in newspapers journals and anthologies and has won various prizes and a poetry chapbook Oranges Grow on Trees was published by Ginninderra Press. ......
