‘This beautifully written memoir by Jenni Heckendorf reveals a woman with firm opinions a warm sense of family and a keen sense of her own value. She has also lived with cerebral palsy her whole life. A must-read for anyone who has ever doubted the indomitability of the human spirit.’ – Professor Donna Lee Brien Central ......
Evie Walsh obsessively sits beside a garden pond, examining her life and loves and her bouts of deep depression. What is the significance of the men, of the places she returns to in her memories? Of the one man who recurs carrying as he does the terrible secret he wants to share only with her?
The poems in this latest collection by award-winning poet Philip Radmall stand us at the starting point of new experiences and states and follow the forces and callings that summon us out from where we are and bring us back either more knowing or else with a better understanding that there are deeper questions. In language that has been ......
Australia’s wool growing industry descended into chaos during the early 1980s when a small group of ‘rebel’ shearers started advocating for a seemingly minor change. The rebels led by gun shearer Robert White wanted 13-tooth shearing combs legalised. Wide combs as they were known had been banned from use in Australia for ......
The lives celebrated in Three Obituaries are of three diverse twentieth century figures: Jeanne Claude (1935-2009) Sophie Moss (1917-2009) and Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010). Jeanne Claude the partner of the field artist Christo was a prime mover in all their projects. Sophie Moss born in Poland embodied the wide-ranging turbulence of ......
Three novellas in one volumeAlways in DenialDenial justification and revenge dance through this novella a page-turning story topical yet as old as mankind about the shame of sexual abuse. Lies follow John Taylor all of his life and create a pattern which he had not foreseen. A sinful person is believed to be virtuous; a wronged person gets ......
Threading Time is a mixture of memoir poetry and reflection. It moves from the author’s early life growing up in Sydney in the 1950s to her traumatic experiences of anxiety and hospitalisation as a young woman to her later reflections on the health system as a social worker in Perth. It is a book about accepting and coming to ......
'In Threading Raindrops Michele Fermanis-Winward has fashioned an associative landscape full of the conflicts of the human heart and mind. The reader is buoyed by the honesty and integrity the gentle ruefulness of this poet's generous observations. The necklace is a perfect symbol for this collection of clear and lovely poems - the thread on ......
‘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 ......
