In Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living eco-philosopher Freya Mathews livens up her theme – that the company of animals is indispensable to human existence – by way of the story of an anarchic but irresistible pig.
‘In this captivating story of a pig and a philosopher Freya takes up the narratival mode ......
Peter Hansen spent 40 years working and managing sheep stations in far west New South Wales. He then spent a couple of years living in the UK which gave him a different perspective on life. He currently works in Aged Care in Melbourne. This is his second volume of poetry
‘Everyone has a button story but plunging into this collection of button poems is full of surprises; amazing fictions lie scattered amongst poignant memories and the everyday made strange. Far from being buttoned-up these poems reveal life in all its guises: familiar heartbreaking erotic funny enigmatic…whatever did happen to ......
Janis Spehr is a traveller and dreamer. Landscape history and the visual arts are important starting points for her writing and her short fiction has been widely published. She is currently writing a collection of stories The light at the edge of the sky based on the life of the German photographer Gisele Freund
Mark Willing lives in Melbourne where he works as a teacher. His poetry has been published in magazines and journals including VerandahSmall PackagesFive BellsCentoria and Blue Dog. This is his first collection.
'Simon Stuart writes with a deep understanding of the subtle extraordinary pivotal moments to be found in everyday life. With these six wonderfully understated yet moving stories he invites the reader to join him on a journey through the often chaotic and emotionally harsh everyday worlds of characters who reveal themselves in the ......
'A teacher a traveller an observer and a thinker Sue Cook’s lens is sharply focused her words well measured. Join "the unravelling ribbon of road" that winds through suburbia and the outback through ordinary lives and magnificent moments in nature. Cook’s vivid poetic landscapes of places like the Flinders Ranges ......
‘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 ......
Hidden in deep grass beyond the line of the distant ridge half-remembered hopes fall prey to savage chance and lie broken or finding fresh earth rise again with tender growth. The stories of Wheelbarrow Ridge are each a landscape populated by searchers who yearn for the horizon that they have never crossed or whose need for ......
