Blundstones and a Brown Dog is about living in the real world with your heart and your eyes wide open. This collection written over a twenty-five-year period speaks about the perplexity of simple things: love death longing friendship hope. Its voice is human fallible incomplete. It's about the journey and the dreaming; it's about lives as ......
January Melbourne hot mid-summer. The holidays fizzle in a kind of endless dryness. A heat haze off the bitumen and the ache of the afternoon sun. A bunch of kids starts grade six at Peel Street School. It's the high tide of the post-war migrant boom; every term there's someone new - from England Ireland Italy Greece Germany Hungary ......
Footprints of a Stranger is a collection of emotions - tiptoeing between the experiences of the author and the sentiments of others. Barbara Gurney's poetry passionately explores attitudes observes nature and reminisces. Nature compels us to take heed - 'stand up bring the world your courage'. Contemplations express the shadows lurking within us ......
'This delightful suite of stories reflects on the writing lives of women today. Here Virginia Woolf casts her shadow and also sheds her light on the stresses and the joys of creating fiction. Piquant and pithy these are explorations of how it is for the woman writer with or without a room of her own.' - Carmel Bird
Cleaning out the closet is typically a woman's task. It is also a perfect metaphor for the creative endeavour as it rummages through junk - items long discarded or abandoned - for signs of renewal. In the tradition of the great female storytellers - Alice Munro Doris Lessing Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf - Mary Pomfret reveals the dramatic ......
Lively and varied Melinda Smith's first collection rushes the reader headlong through love grief outrage takoyaki alienation and football. Melinda's other books include Mapless in Underland and First...Then..
Mapless in Underland brings more of Melinda Smith's fresh surprising poems deliberately accessible yet intensely thought-provoking. Praise for the poem 'Bride and Best Man discuss arrangements' published in this collection:'Melinda Smith captures the danger and desire of an illicit relationship "with sidelong ripple-whispers and the light but ......
The poems in First... Then... explore many different voices from 'planet autism' - from verbal and non-verbal autistic children to autistic men and women to parents carers and siblings. The focus is on the experience of living with autism but you do not need to know or be an autistic person to enjoy this book. The poems are by turns moving ......
Sharon Kernot presents an assortment of short stories that reside and crackle in the tense spaces of suburban Australia. She writes about poverty addiction and difficult relationships. Her stories revolve around suburban streets; they dip into the local shopping mall the welfare office community centre and the neighbour's house. There is much ......
