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 ......
'Kathleen brings to her poetry a short story writer's ability to create character. She has an eye for gesture and movement as well as an ear for the nuances of speech. Her poems are often portraits of interesting people brought to life through precise images and vocabulary in strong lines that reflect reality in the lives of her characters ......
A Way Less Travelled features different ways of looking at the world around us and the actions of people trying to see everyday things in a different light. It is inspired by the poetry and paintings of William Blake sharing his spiritual focus on the symbolism of Jerusalem and expressing a concern for justice and world peace.
The story of Veronica Knight, the first victim in the Truro murders in South Australia
A police commander a parole officer a matron a court artist and a mounted police officer - the author found all of these key players from the seventies when she investigated the story of Veronica Knight the first victim of the serial killers in the infamous Truro murders in South Australia. Forty years after the discovery of the remains in ......
A Turn of Events is a collection of fourteen short stories that will take you into the world of Indian migrants to Australia. Each story explores a different aspect of Indian culture in Australia and the characters expose the social cultural financial and psychological issues that this diaspora is often confronted with. These ......
Warning: do not buy this book if all you want is a boring travel guide. Buy it only if you are interested in personal reflections and observations mostly sane but some completely insane history and the odd poem for good measure put together in 2022 in the post Covid lockdown era when I travelled from Port Albert to the tip of Cape York and ......
A Sparrow Splashing is a journey into the heart of the Buddha’s teachings. This book of stories and poetry looks at the life of the author through the eyes of three characters: a child named Little Pebble a young man called the Seeker and the Teacher a Buddhist Monk. The reader is invited to reflect and meditate upon the ......
“This is distilled cartography of a woman’s life. From a child’s-eye view of drought and hardship in the outback to the pains and love of motherhood Broughton turns her lens of brevity and poignancy on a rich life. With meticulous observation (‘a mopoke echoes its own hollow song’) wry humour (‘my mother is ......
