The poems in First... Then... explore many different voices from 'planet autism' - from verbal and non-verbal autistic children to autistic men and women to parents carers and siblings. The focus is on the experience of living with autism but you do not need to know or be an autistic person to enjoy this book. The poems are by turns moving ......
Lively and varied Melinda Smith's first collection rushes the reader headlong through love grief outrage takoyaki alienation and football. Melinda's other books include Mapless in Underland and First...Then..
Mapless in Underland brings more of Melinda Smith's fresh surprising poems deliberately accessible yet intensely thought-provoking. Praise for the poem 'Bride and Best Man discuss arrangements' published in this collection:'Melinda Smith captures the danger and desire of an illicit relationship "with sidelong ripple-whispers and the light but ......
Washday Pockets is a collection of poems that will delight any reader. Written in an accessible language domestic relationships are examined in all their grittiness. It is an honest disclosure of domestic life where sorrow loss and separation are interwoven with love humour and an over-riding celebration of life.
'John Egan's poems are finely crafted revealing a deep perception of his surroundings and resonating with a richness of experience. He is an eloquent word-weaver and he writes with a sensitivity that draws the reader into a world that is at times evocative nostalgic humorous and beautiful. John's poetry is a pleasure to read and an enjoyable ......
Sharon Kernot presents an assortment of short stories that reside and crackle in the tense spaces of suburban Australia. She writes about poverty addiction and difficult relationships. Her stories revolve around suburban streets; they dip into the local shopping mall the welfare office community centre and the neighbour's house. There is much ......
The stories of Not Another Nun Story recount some of the more human side of life in a convent in the 1960s. Before Vatican II convent life was rather like that depicted in Audrey Hepburn's film A Nun's Story. Margaret Breuer became a Sister of Mercy while still a teenager and teenage behaviour surfaced occasionally giving rise to the ......
Every mother has a story a story that is worth the telling. These are stories of courage grit and determination. Stories that give insight into the different lives of others - so that's what it's like to walk in another's shoes. Stories to ring bells - yes I have been through some of that too different in context maybe but with the same will ......
'Gillian Telford's poems deliver what the title of her collection suggests. Always mindful often subtle in their argument and surprising in their intensity these poems display a range of moods attitudes and technical approaches to her subjects. Telford is alert to the nuanced signals between people: she can memorably convey family and other ......
