In 2013 I started a BA in English and Creative Writing as a mature-age student. After a lecture on poetry I found myself much to my surprise inspired to write poems of my own. Suddenly out of the recesses of my mind surfaced memories of myself as a teenager filling notebook after notebook with experiences of thoughts and emotions put into ......
Born in Germany Margitta Acker came to Australia in June 1962. Five weeks later she was married at St Peter's Lutheran Church in Reid. For her it was a wedding among strangers. Her memories of settling in Canberra exploring her new surroundings finding work making friends and raising a family give a fascinating insight into everyday life in ......
We disappear into the poinciana shadows into the dream that alcohol and music and love create. I go in a dream in a myth. This is how it should be I think. This is the pagan story the truth the fairytales promised us the ending imagined from the earliest of murmured memories...But myths are not founded on reality and fairytales do not ......
Who would you choose: your lover or your sister? This is the dilemma Jen confronts in this intriguing verse novel which lyrically and unpredictably interweaves storytelling and poetry.'Saving Ginia tests and extends the boundaries of the novel in verse in ways that are original ambiguous elliptical. The surface shimmers and tantalises with ......
In Blind Spots Bruce Dawe (author of such popular poetry collections as Condolences of the Season and Sometimes Gladness) turns his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office and Kevin Rudd's return. Dawe's sympathy for those subjected to the intense ......
In Blind Spots Bruce Dawe turned his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office and Kevin Rudd's return. In Kevin Almighty one of Australia's finest poets extends his send-up of the 2013 election and its aftermath.
A frank account of a four-year struggle with a force that cannot be reasoned with - bipolar. Everybody experiences stress guilt and grief; we all have days when we don't like ourselves very much. Imagine waking up one day and that is all you feel for months and months. But if we are never awake in darkness we can never truly appreciate the ......
Some of these poems reflect the light caught in my daughter's camera during her work in a village community in the Ethiopian Afar. Others are more random shafts of light caught in the prism of my mind and split into a rainbow of reflections about life and death and the half-world of hopes and dreams that lies between. As is the case with rainbows ......
'Stay tuned! Nothing prepares you for the shock of a new voice in poetry and nothing quenches that thirst better than a good dose of poetry. A poetry of place and sensibility can light up a whole landscape and the poetry of Robbie Coburn does just that. In these poems we see him now in the very act of etching out the details so hold on and ......
