Australia has welcomed immigrants from many countries of the world over the years. Many choose to marry within their own cultural groups others know when they have met the right partner regardless of country or creed. This story – the sequel to Beatrice’s Commonsensical Approach – tells of the experiences of Francis and ......
Stories of love kindness desire and revenge. Frank sets off on his bike to help people in his coastal village and stumbles upon a scene that changes his life. A journalist reflects on his betrayal of a colleague in Korea and resolves to make amends. Two former lovers reunite unexpectedly in Japan and visit the place that holds the secret of ......
Desire in its multifariously limpid and obscure manifestations is one of the salient themes that informs many of the poems in this collection from the way it is experienced in its recognisably subjective forms as longing love or intention to the more challenging notion of its expression as artefact – the objective creations of daily ......
As a child I drove my mother to distraction with my constant question Why? After a stream of these endless whys I can still hear her exasperated voice saying ‘Why because.’ and I knew that was the time to stop – at least for a while. Nothing has changed. I am still asking questions. These days I know there are no ......
In this her fourth book Barbara Fisher addresses diverse subjects ranging from literature and art to the natural world traveI food family and narratives of colonial days and the migrant experience.
‘Barbara Fisher has a highly personal way of seizing an historicaI moment or a daily event and transforming it into a striking ......
"Margaret Clark’s poetry moves comfortably between cosy domesticity family relationships art religion and occasionally politics. She ûnds inspiration in simple things (a walk in the park coffee with friends domestic chores) which reminds us to look for the poetry in the everyday. The metaphor is wielded with great aplomb ......
A story of priests, professors and politics in 19th century Sydney
John Forrest DD the exuberant scholar/priest recruited in Ireland in 1859 to set up the Catholic St John’s College at Sydney University found life in colonial NSW much to his liking. However it soon became clear that divisions within the Church even more than a shortage of candidates for degrees would put paid to his high hopes for ......
When Dalley a convict's son who became the first Australian Privy Councillor died in 1888 The Bulletin described him as 'a man of many splendours both of intellect and heart' and 'in many respects the most notable man Sydney has given birth to'. Nine years later some 10 000 people gathered in Hyde Park for the ......
Charting an international journey through the beauty of nature and art the starkness of urban life and the honesty of human emotion Flying Through Cloud evokes both the humour and vulnerability of our condition. Derek Baines in this first collection reconciles our thirst for travel with a constant need for home. A singular and ......
