Janis Spehr is a traveller and dreamer. Landscape history and the visual arts are important starting points for her writing and her short fiction has been widely published. She is currently writing a collection of stories The light at the edge of the sky based on the life of the German photographer Gisele Freund
Mark Willing lives in Melbourne where he works as a teacher. His poetry has been published in magazines and journals including VerandahSmall PackagesFive BellsCentoria and Blue Dog. This is his first collection.
'Simon Stuart writes with a deep understanding of the subtle extraordinary pivotal moments to be found in everyday life. With these six wonderfully understated yet moving stories he invites the reader to join him on a journey through the often chaotic and emotionally harsh everyday worlds of characters who reveal themselves in the ......
'A teacher a traveller an observer and a thinker Sue Cook’s lens is sharply focused her words well measured. Join "the unravelling ribbon of road" that winds through suburbia and the outback through ordinary lives and magnificent moments in nature. Cook’s vivid poetic landscapes of places like the Flinders Ranges ......
‘What is impressive is the ambit of this collection the way Morgan explores with equal authority the natural world history mythology the vagaries of humankind and grief. A finely-tuned intelligence shines through these poems which are lexically rich and jam-packed with precise imagery. Her poems marry the down-to-earth to the ......
Hidden in deep grass beyond the line of the distant ridge half-remembered hopes fall prey to savage chance and lie broken or finding fresh earth rise again with tender growth. The stories of Wheelbarrow Ridge are each a landscape populated by searchers who yearn for the horizon that they have never crossed or whose need for ......
An eclectic collection of short stories tackling subjects as varied as psychological mind games the effects of war on those left behind the vagaries of heterosexual and lesbian love self-abortion and murder told through characters as diverse as a retired Light Horseman a lighthouse keeper’s wife and an old Aboriginal man and set ......
In this collection of poetry the author explores the many facets of what it means to live life through the lens of schizophrenia. And yet it is more than that. Black humour irreverent mayhem and cheerful tragedy all vie for the right to co-exist within unreality’s dark prism. Where Words Go When They Die sways from surreal ......
Firmly rooted in the past these poems branch out from Old English and traditional ballads to the language of televised archeology and the travel guide twisting from folk song to fairy tale to café gossip. In a tangled conversation between past and present the voices of Vikings poets lovers talking skulls shipwrecked sailors house ......
