Living alone in the Blue Mountains baby-boomer Kate Ward is estranged from her adult son. Where did it all go wrong?
She decides to return to Salt Pan Creek the place of her childhood in post-war Sydney suburbia. It’s here that she must come to terms with a history that’s far greater than her own personal ......
After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia the country of her birth at the request of her aging narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered haunting mysteries solved and ......
Stories of love kindness desire and revenge. Frank sets off on his bike to help people in his coastal village and stumbles upon a scene that changes his life. A journalist reflects on his betrayal of a colleague in Korea and resolves to make amends. Two former lovers reunite unexpectedly in Japan and visit the place that holds the secret of ......
Christopher Palmer was born in Brisbane in 1969 and raised in the UK. He has lived in many places since returning to Australia in 1987 and currently lives in Canberra where he completed a PhD in the biological sciences in 2005. He’s happiest in the ecotone between the arts and sciences and moves habitually between both. His poetry has ......
'These stories draw us into the many worlds of Carol Patterson's imagination and experience and we immediately become invested as readers in the characters and the dilemmas they face. The narrative thrust along with skilfully constructed dialogue lead us through the underbrush of human emotions make us scale the dangerous slopes of risk ......
Adèle Ogiér Jones has worked internationally for more than two decades much of it in development more recently in regions affected by conflict. From 2004 to 2006 when these poems were written she lived in Afghanistan leading the education program of the Aga Khan Foundation in northern and central provinces. Political themes are common in ......
Close to a hundred poems by over sixty poets who will take you all over the city of Adelaide - from Elder Park to Whitmore Square Rundle Mall to South Terrace the Botanic Gardens to North Adelaide and many places in between.
Early mornings there's a busy twittering singing squawking from all sorts of birds as they start their day. Late at night I hear the sighing of the surf and thumping of the waves on Coniston Beach in the middle distance and frogs kero-kero-ing in the garden ponds. In between are my adagio days.
Thérèse Corfiatis seeks out beauty and spirit in simple things: the curl of a wave the flight of cockatoos ‘yellow-flecked tails flashing / like airborne sunflowers’ (‘Black Cockatoos’). She searches for ancestral homeland and belonging – ‘my dispossession torn away / a birthing wound healed ......
