Ian McFarlane considers poetry to be a conversation with the imagination of anyone prepared to listen. His verse is both free and rhythmic spanning its own inclusive path. Ian is an award-winning writer of fiction essays and book reviews. Despite the crippling handicap of anxiety and depression he has used words and ideas in defence of ......
‘Jill Gower’s poems take us on journeys – back into her own past; into foreign countries; into the natural world of the bush and her garden which she so obviously loves and into the lives of others. Jill can recount a memory evoke sympathy or capture a particular moment in time with honesty colourful description or ......
The earliest poems I produced were fierce jabs at the many things that irritated me about the world in which I now lived. Some of them have survived in the section of this volume that I’ve called Aspirational Lifestyles. Others (Nacht und Nebel) were responses to the harsh beauty of the upper Blue Mountains where my wife and I ......
When Dalley a convict's son who became the first Australian Privy Councillor died in 1888 The Bulletin described him as 'a man of many splendours both of intellect and heart' and 'in many respects the most notable man Sydney has given birth to'. Nine years later some 10 000 people gathered in Hyde Park for the ......
wild /waild/ adj. 1. living in a state of nature as animals that have not been tamed or domesticated. 2. growing or produced without cultivation or the care of humans as plants flowers fruit honey etc… 3. uncultivated uninhabited or waste as land. ......
A variety of ambiguous tales both dark and quirky. Conflicts between mothers and daughters brandy drinkers in search of an ideal an escape from the mundane. Males with inflated egos to docile partners who ferment with insidious plans of their own. Curtain twitches village gossip betrayal and those who relish leading ......
‘Passant’s words are marching songs. They speak for the dispossessed across Terra Nullius out of the factories through wars and generations to the ruins of Aleppo. Their rhythm is that of resistance against the state against prejudice but for our common humanity. While at times necessarily bleak in outlook – “we ......
Dissent can be a good thing unless you are killed for it. We live in a world of social fissuring and disruption where families and nations are stressed by the contexts we live in. Globally we are witnessing the biggest population movement ever known. This is interlinked with the causes and effects of massive changes in climate which is ......
This collection of whimsical poems tells what it was like to be the ninth child in a poor Irish Catholic family in the Queensland of the 1950s. It presents vignettes of the child’s attempts to make sense of the world she encounters through the large and loving family at home the not-so-loving nuns at school through neighbours and ......
