'Never read a verse novel? Here's a beauty. The world Helen Swain creates rings true from the very first page as she explores the complexities of a carer's life with brevity honesty and wry wit. Helen brilliantly evokes the tensions between an ageing mother and a daughter who wants to care for her When the time comes. This book is an act of ......
Brendan lives within a short walk of Wentworth Falls Lake in the upper Blue Mountains of New South Wales and finds pleasure inspiration and renewal in the changing seasons and moods of this body of water that was created when European settlers dammed Jamison Creek in 1878 to supply water for the steam trains that carried passengers to and ......
In his third collection of poems Geoff Graetz presents many of his observations about life along with his expressions of concern about present-day social issues. He writes in a style that is intended to be easily understood and has included some light-hearted reflections on the world as it is today. His travels have provided him with ......
The poems in this latest collection by award-winning poet Philip Radmall stand us at the starting point of new experiences and states and follow the forces and callings that summon us out from where we are and bring us back either more knowing or else with a better understanding that there are deeper questions. In language that has been ......
'Jenni Nixon's passages is a family history memoir and social commentary unlike any other fashioned with a poetic voice distinctly her own. At turns harsh and tender suffused with biting humour yet never facile Nixon's are "words that form rivers" coursing through Australia's colonial settlement down to present-day Sydney our ......
'Collins has considerable descriptive powers and an originality of viewpoint not unlike that of some of the English "Martian" poets...a striking denseness of imagery and ingenuity of observation...' - Geoff Page
'Collins's work has clarity and insight demonstrates a skilful turn of phrase and covers considerable ground with swiftness and precision. It values analysis but is also animated by strong currents of feeling and conviction.' - Paul Hetherington NeoPoetica
'Tim Collins has produced a book that haunts and teases. His sharp eye for detail and texture is matched by a warm sensuality and awareness of time as the ultimate enemy.' - Tom Shapcott
Cynthia Sidney Hallam grew up in Lismore and now lives in the Blue Mountains. Her short stories poems and articles have appeared in magazines and anthologies and her poems have been performed on stage and read on ABC radio. She was recently awarded a Writing Fellowship Degree by the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
