‘Megan Schaffner knows how poetry works. She knows the way a strong poem can float you gently to somewhere you’ve never been before/ [where] with luck/ you’ll land wrong side up/ exhilarated/ ready to explore a new country. This is precisely what Megan’s poetry does. As soon as you land you realise you are in the hands ......
Avril Bradley emigrated from England to Australia in 1971. Her poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies since 2006. She was a performance poet in Poetry Idol at The Melbourne Writers’ Festival (2007–2011). She received an honorary degree from The University of Roehampton (London) in May 2017. She lives in Frankston ......
Taking us across culture and landscapes and evoking other states Derek Baines’s new collection touches raw nerves and brings humour to some of our most challenging experiences. A lone traveller enjoys hospitality at an ancient Japanese inn an insomniac artist produces a masterwork from his subconscious and a marathon runner moves out ......
‘This is a comprehensive range of everyday close to the bone poems by Doug Gregory with sensitivity to other people's difficult lives. They are insightful and compelling. His poetry is universal; it is out there commenting most effectively on life's foibles as well as its delights. It is tender sometimes on recollection ......
A Life in Writing charts the evolution of Michael Byrne as an award-winning poet in the Australian Capital Territory. It explores through vignettes his early life the awakening of his desire to become a poet his time as the new kid on the block and his arrival as a mature poet. Along the way examples of his ......
A Life Deserves Nine Cats is a collection of poems and drawings of cats by Sue Schindler and Ron Heard. Tough and tender. Vivid and well observed. Never sentimental. A book for cat lovers and for readers of poetry.
'If you have ever known or loved or mourned a cat these poems and portraits will insinuate themselves into your ......
John Avery was aged twenty-four with a wife and young child when he was arrested for stealing a grey mare his death sentence commuted to life transportation. After twenty years in Van Diemen's Land he was charged with sheep stealing and sentenced to fourteen years on Sarah Island. From a small Hampshire village in ......
‘To listen to South Australian poet Airlie Jane Kirkham’s latest collection is to listen to a musical mind at work. I greatly admire the way in which her poems evoke such delight in the life forces of nature despite the restrictions of her own reality. Her description of the simple beauty of the natural world and the permutations ......
Spanning five stages of life A Journey to Glory features stories from childhood up to middle age. The book is full of love and awe for the beauty of the landscape and at times aware of its ability to destroy. All the characters are aware that they are a part of nature and that she tends to intrude if you dare ignore her. One ......
