Why has poetry fallen so sadly by the literary wayside of our hectic digital age? An age if ever there was one needing the kind of humanising empathy that readable (and quotable) poetry can provide. One of the central problems facing poetry today is that we seem to have forgotten (in some cases perhaps deliberately) its link to the emotional ......
'Here you have fundamental poetry about water earth air and even fire. Jeannie Lawson has a keen eye for nature in all its guises. She has an admirable sense of detail and a rare sense of the poignant. Her time spent underwater is evident in many of these poems. In fact you can be under the ocean cavorting with cetaceans without getting wet. ......
The Saying of Names is the first poetry collection by Karen Blaylock who lives in the Adelaide Hills. Her finely wrought and closely observed poems will appeal to poetry lovers everywhere.
'Collins's work has clarity and insight demonstrates a skilful turn of phrase and covers considerable ground with swiftness and precision. It values analysis but is also animated by strong currents of feeling and conviction.' - Paul Hetherington NeoPoetica
In The Ruby Red's Affair Scoot Valuti undertakes a visit to a local lesbian bar/night club meets up with her friends and in search of a lifelong loving relationship based on mutual respect and appreciation has a brief flirtation which results sadly in a serious affair which lasts a nanosecond and ends badly. Just as the ......
It is South Africa in the early years of the scourge of the apartheid system its prejudices and injustices affecting the fabric of the society. Against this background is the thwarted love affair of Daniel and Maryssa two young people from traumatic backgrounds. Daniel is a brilliant young doctor who is unable to admit to himself the love he ......
David Brelsford is a shameless dog lover as is evident in many of his short stories. He is currently the joint owner (with his wife) of a gentle springer spaniel but has fantasies of one day owning a Bernese mountain dog. He has undertaken charity runs to raise funds for motor neurone disease but at 81 his running days are over. He now ......
Alan C. Williams is a widely published Australian author concentrating mainly on women’s magazines where he pushes the boundaries way past ‘boy meets girl’ love stories. He has had over forty short stories published in Australia’s That’s Life many of them included in The Rain the Park and Other ......
'It's the details of a thing...what eye love about Gabe's poetry. The depth in the beauty of a moment slowed way down... Eye enter her words and the legs of my mind and heart slow to stroll as eye am carried like a precious thing on the words of her song...her poetry. From the warm feel of the water on my skin as a single mother washes the ......
