A Season and a Time has poems that are snapshots and poems that read like short stories. They scan Ireland's green fields and Australia's ochre earth. Inspiration comes from a snowdrop a telephone call a broken musical instrument a night spent in sub-zero temperatures in the Snowy Mountains. The subject matter ranges from activities that ......
‘With this her first published collection of poetry Jill Nevile demonstrates that contemporary verse need not be oblique or obscure. She writes with an intriguing and refreshing candour on topics as diverse as her life in Britain her flirtations with Greece and her love affair with Australia. Writing in both free and traditional verse ......
'I first met Jill Nevile when she was a regular contributor to the monthly meetings of the Gosford Bush Poets but it was not until I read the collected verses in A Scent of Frangipani that Jill's true skill as a writer became evident. The way she has captured her obvious love of the garden the beautiful area of ......
Two stories. Two individuals. One journey. One destiny.
Caught Between Love and Loss
Richard’s dream is to get out of the city and build a house in the country. When he meets Rachel there’s suddenly a reason to stay. Can he convince her to live amongst the beauty of nature? Rachel takes her first step towards this new ......
‘What is impressive is the ambit of this collection the way Morgan explores with equal authority the natural world history mythology the vagaries of humankind and grief. A finely-tuned intelligence shines through these poems which are lexically rich and jam-packed with precise imagery. Her poems marry the down-to-earth to the ......
Cancer is a disease with a persona of mystery often referred to through the use of negative metaphors such as alien evil and foreign while its medical treatment and recovery phases are described with warfare metaphors and sadly when death is the end result one is said to have lost their battle with cancer. However Cameron in this debut ......
It was an act of simple kindness for an Australian couple to take two Czech refugees from post World War II Europe into their working-class home. They could never have foreseen the tensions these sophisticated Europeans would create or the life-changing impact they would have on their teenage daughter. A Promise of Peaches explores ......
Dick a disillusioned husband and lawyer living in a middle-class 1997 London suburb stands dressed in period costume on a railway platform. Dick is convinced he is in the middle of a dream but his adventures become ever more curious tantalising and amazingly real!He shares a compartment with some country folk travelling to old London Town. ......
At twenty Anna married an ambitious computer scientist. Now twelve years later they have three young daughters. Yet something vital is missing. He is more away than at home and she dreams of an equal love. But she dreads the price of breaking free. Within a year the marriage shatters and her children are abducted overseas. In the vengeful ......
