An ambitious lawyer confronts his ideals and his Greek heritage when seeking promotion in an establishment firm in the early ’80s. An introverted TAFE lecturer grabs a surprising way out of her tidy and predictable life. And a would-be lover becomes obsessed after a rude rejection. Robert Horne’s fascinating range of characters ......
In his interpretation of Antigone Seamus Heaney says ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles Brecht Ted Hughes Anne Carson and most particularly Euripides. Set ......
In his first week of research in Sydney's Mitchell Library where he sat unearthing the life of Louisa Lawson mother of Henry for his first radio play in 1956 Brian Hungerford lost concentration when he noticed a boxed paragraph about an illiterate teenage-convict girl who had demolished the ruling 'exclusives' a group of magistrates led ......
Drawing on cutting-edge research into genre fiction and trauma theory, The Trauma-Informed Writer is an essential resource for all fiction writers wanting to explore and include trauma themes.
‘There is a seamlessness about these poems; the stitching doesn’t show. Egan brings the full range of poetic techniques to his work but they are largely invisible in the context of the whole. There were many times I had to pause while reading…often mid-poem sometimes to reflect on how they related to my own experiences ......
The Tiger in the Vineyard is a collection shaped by wide personal experience of pressing social issues. The poems reflect a commitment to verse that is lucid structured accessible and vivid and draws on its tradition and a deeply felt concern for the disadvantaged and traumatised. Written in a range of variations on traditional forms and free ......
Gawain and the Green Knight is the celebrated poem from the time of Chaucer written in the dialect then current in the north of England. Chaucer's language outlasted this dialect. The poem draws on rich Arthurian and folk traditions involving the Green Man and knightly virtue. It has been frequently translated but ......
Michele Fermanis-Winward lives close to the summit of the World Heritage Blue Mountains in New South Wales Australia on Darug and Gundungurra Land. With a long career as a visual artist she considers herself an Imagist poet. Through her writing she rails against injustice and discrimination in all its forms. Michele is passionate in her ......
This collection of short and 'micro' stories arises from imagination working on snippets of ideas gleaned across the times and places of my life. Many have an underlying autobiographical origin but even these are fictionalised. They are not intended as a factual record but as places where your thoughts like mine can come to play and dance. ......
