The Sun Behind the Sun covers a great diversity of subjects moods and scenes with four distinct threads interweaving their way through the collection. Journeys the nature of time the four seasons and that question with so many possible answers: what is real and what is illusory? As for the collection’s title read the last ......
Fran Graham is a Tasmanian poet now living in WA. She completed a Bachelor of Arts from Griffith University in 2009 and spent much of 2010 volunteering with the Activ Foundation providing recreation and travel programs for adults with an intellectual disability. She has raised four children taught English in China sung at weddings and ......
In this diverse collection of poems Ron Barton explores the various aspects of his world that make him who he is. Regardless of the seriousness of tone which is often tongue-in-cheek each poem contains some element of his life – whether it be a reaction to childhood and fatherhood or a reflection of his love of teaching and football. ......
Canberra residents have little reason to know Charles Daley’s name or be aware of the details of his life in Victoria as a teacher botanist writer and historian. But they might be more familiar with the name of his eldest son Charles Studdy (C.S.) Daley whose close connection with the story of Canberra for over fifty years is the ......
This is a story about growing up in a small racist town in the Eastern Cape South Africa during the Apartheid years. The author is the oldest son of the town’s mayor a publican. He grew up between the hotel where he was exposed at an early age to much of the town’s less salubrious goings on and a harsh boarding school ......
Being bullied for the colour of her skin is the least of fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown’s problems. Velvet was born with a terrifying second sight. She ‘sees’ the crazies the psychopaths those monsters sliding among us hidden behind normal-looking faces. There’s a double murder in her small-minded town and Velvet ......
Orphaned at four growing up at a time when the stigma of illegitimacy was lifelong divorce scandalous and cruelty in the home left to take its course my mother confessed her shameful origins to her children only when she was in her sixties. She died without knowing who her father was. But a subsequent chance meeting in her birthplace Broken ......
Jenny Maree has lived in three countries and uses each of these adventures to explore imagery and thoughts inspired by different environments. The colours and textures are made vivid by the author’s descriptions. In Jenny’s previous books she has paid attention to the different meanings of the same word in different regions ......
Edna Taylor’s second book of short stories is about a scarecrow a dog and a cat a UFO and dreams. Brief encounters and an anonymous gift plus strange happenings which can turn one’s life onto unexpected pathways and into a completely new direction. Which only goes to prove that ordinary can turn into extraordinary in the blink of ......
