A well-known quote from the master of minimal storytelling Raymond Carver is 'Get in get out. Don't linger. Go on.' In this book of flash fiction and short poems Ray Liversidge invites you to do just that. However Liversidge's writing often asks that you read between the lines and hints at what is unsaid. So after finishing all ...of ......
In 2011 at the age of sixty-nine Gerard Catherin hung up his chef's whites for the last time to full time on his main passion his fifteen-year-long dream of finding the elusive diamond pipe in the barren country of northern New South Wales Australia. But still simmering away in his brain was a chance discovery made in 2003 on his way to ......
A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka collects haiku tanka haibun tanka prose and sequences from a variety of locations and experiences. Rodney Williams' poems have a thoughtful musicality and romance a sense of humour and sadness to which many people will relate. The poems are carefully crafted honest and unsentimental working well on many ......
"A Call to Listen is an oasis for those of us who take too little time to stop and refresh our senses. It is a journey through landscapes both familiar and new the beauty and the terror of the places we call home the histories we are living now and remember still. It bridges distance and carries us beyond our shores to examine ......
Daniel Neumann was born in England in 1951 of German-born parents and has lived most of his life in Australia in Canberra and then in Melbourne where he works as a psychologist and as a musician. His poems respond to landscapes texts paintings music and conversations real or imaginary. They inhabit spaces from Australia to ancient ......
Susan Fitzgerald has told stories to herself from childhood and has written since she was a teenager. She has had her work published in Under the Rainbow a collection of work by U3A writers and in Tamba. Now there’s this book which offers tales of the mischief of boys as they grow into men and of women who have moved ......
'A Christmas Posy is a wonderful collection of haiku. A longing for Christmas is in these pages. We all have our own Christmas memories; the only difference is that it is summer and a kookaburra is laughing as in the song we sang in distant days. However there may be another aspect to Christmas. Another Christmas story would be in the ......
What protection do females have from the social culture moulding the humans they develop into? The fourteen sharply perceptive tales in A Feminine Perspective celebrate the quiet courage within each woman's heart.
'With sharp satire and fierce feminism Pamela Burton’s years of legal practice are put to devastating use in this interrogation of a murder mystery and the rollicking incompetence of ASIO super sleuths. The stench of rot from Operation Fishnet and its web of corrupt and greedy men with an eye to illegal immigration and boatloads of ......
