Hay New South Wales 1923. Martha a classics scholar from the coast comes to teach in a man’s town in the outback. She falls in love with Henry a local man and they find their dream place on the river where they raise a family and breed a flock of sheep with fine wool. The unforgiving climate erodes their dreams. When Henry leaves ......
'It struck me at some point when reading Maurice Whelan's Thought: The Invisible Essence that thinking a bit like reading writing and dreaming is not framed often enough as conversation. As readers when we're lucky we enter into dialogue with the writer and when fruitful the conversation continues long after the book is ......
'Journal entries poems fragments meditations. Allusions to and critical engagement with philosophers and writers - Chinese European and Australian - this is what makes Ouyang Yu's Thought is Free a thinker's work not a "thoughter's" who only has thoughts. Delightfully readable!' - Professor Prem Poddar Vice-Chancellor of ......
‘Everyone has a button story but plunging into this collection of button poems is full of surprises; amazing fictions lie scattered amongst poignant memories and the everyday made strange. Far from being buttoned-up these poems reveal life in all its guises: familiar heartbreaking erotic funny enigmatic…whatever did happen to ......
'In Threading Raindrops Michele Fermanis-Winward has fashioned an associative landscape full of the conflicts of the human heart and mind. The reader is buoyed by the honesty and integrity the gentle ruefulness of this poet's generous observations. The necklace is a perfect symbol for this collection of clear and lovely poems - the thread on ......
Threading Time is a mixture of memoir poetry and reflection. It moves from the author’s early life growing up in Sydney in the 1950s to her traumatic experiences of anxiety and hospitalisation as a young woman to her later reflections on the health system as a social worker in Perth. It is a book about accepting and coming to ......
Three novellas in one volumeAlways in DenialDenial justification and revenge dance through this novella a page-turning story topical yet as old as mankind about the shame of sexual abuse. Lies follow John Taylor all of his life and create a pattern which he had not foreseen. A sinful person is believed to be virtuous; a wronged person gets ......
The lives celebrated in Three Obituaries are of three diverse twentieth century figures: Jeanne Claude (1935-2009) Sophie Moss (1917-2009) and Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010). Jeanne Claude the partner of the field artist Christo was a prime mover in all their projects. Sophie Moss born in Poland embodied the wide-ranging turbulence of ......
Australia’s wool growing industry descended into chaos during the early 1980s when a small group of ‘rebel’ shearers started advocating for a seemingly minor change. The rebels led by gun shearer Robert White wanted 13-tooth shearing combs legalised. Wide combs as they were known had been banned from use in Australia for ......
