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 ......
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 ......
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 ......
When Bill Tully Stephen Matthews and Ian McFarlane sat down in a Canberra café to consider the idea of co-editing a quarterly journal of comment and review they were seeking to increase the relevance of Australian literature and encourage the independence of political social and cultural comment. That idea became Voice and the first issue was ......
I never knew my grandmother Mary Ellen Kerr Peach. Then some old letters came into my possession; my paper chase began. I learnt how she epitomised the young educated women of a century ago who sought to shatter the shibboleths of sexism by persistence and conviction. She wanted to teach and thus guide girls and boys equally towards worthwhile ......
In his first journey Hamlin Baylis Wells thirty years an undercover detective has a major decision to make. His immaculate career and religious convictions are at odds with an impulsive decision not to declare a large sum of money found during a police operation. In the resulting journey of self-discovery he finds a way to atone for his ......
