These fifteen stories range in time from contemporary Australia to sixties Britain in location from Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to France. In the title story a woman sits each day at the bedside of her comatose former lover as he clings to life her only consolation in the long hours of watching and waiting are the novels of Leo Tolstoy ......
Kevin Densley’s poetry has been published in various Australian and UK magazines over the past fifteen years including Quadrant The Adelaide Review LiNQ Muse New England Review Vernacular Mattoid Redoubt Verandah Tamba Space Other Poetry (UK) The Journal (UK) Cadenza (UK) Monkey Kettle ......
‘This first book is packed with clear-eyed veracity offers a shining resilience personal insight and shared comfort…we are enjoined a chorus.’ – Les Wicks
Few poets express the meeting of nature and emotion as tenderly as Susan McCreery. Her poems open with images of nature and draw the reader in to scenarios ......
“Judith E. P. Johnson has that crucial characteristic for haiku poets an ability to notice the minor miracles of ordinary existence – a blackbird bathing in a dog’s bowl daisies ankle-deep on a lawn the reflection of a jasmine flower in a rain puddle – these are acute observations that transform everyday life into ......
Walk the Wildly with Lizz Murphy in this her fifth collection of poetry where winter is a lumbering lantern-jawed season spring is a baking back untimely frost a trollop. There are women of precise skirts men with shipwrecked backs and locals who inspect the brash blue foreheads strained like fence wire. Reflecting on absence and ......
A frank account of a four-year struggle with a force that cannot be reasoned with - bipolar. Everybody experiences stress guilt and grief; we all have days when we don't like ourselves very much. Imagine waking up one day and that is all you feel for months and months. But if we are never awake in darkness we can never truly appreciate the ......
There are so many words for wanting: longing yearning lusting lacking craving desiring aspiring dreaming hungering… To want is to be human to experience both the agony and the exquisite anticipatory movement towards what is beyond present reality. So wanting is both spiritual and earthy. It is a relishing of possibilities ......
Stories of laughter and tears. A jealous young woman is trapped in remote bushland. Should she save her husband or let him die? A man travelling on top of a train during the Depression hurtles towards a tunnel not knowing if his head will be chopped off. Wartime prime minister Ben Chifley spins the chocolate wheel in a country town. An Irish ......
‘These days many individual collections of poetry (and some anthologies as well) are presented in language which all too often offers the particular experiences of the poets as if they were clues in a cryptic crossword. If we could only put those poetic hints together (we tell ourselves) we’d be in a position to know what they were ......
