The Boy Who Loved the Moon is an exploration of a mother’s love. It is a love that transcends what most experience because the respites from reality are so fleeting. Thérèse Corfiatis’s narrative poem though acting as a chronicle of her son’s journey from birth is in reality a mother’s travail. ......
'Libby Sommer has the true poet's eye for the deeper meaning that can abide beneath the ordinariness and small details of our daily lives and experiences. And she expresses her insights with the genuine poet's careful and precise attention to placing the right word in the right place.' - Barry Spurr Literary Editor ......
What happens when you collide with China after thirty years studying the language literature history? This bilingual collection reflects on that encounter and others over the twenty-five years that followed.
When Miss Truelove discovers hatboxes full of papers after her mother’s death mysteries of her past begin to resolve. She is compelled to tell the story of her eccentric father Charles Truelove and the scandals surrounding his name. The Choir of Gravediggers takes us back to late nineteenth century Melbourne; a cemetery and a ......
Part memoir part social commentary this is a Stolen Generations story with a difference. Told from the perspective of a non-Indigenous foster sister The Chosen Son recounts one woman's lifelong quest to come to terms with her family's role in colonial policies that separated Indigenous children from their parents.
'There is a fierce tenderness in these poems of happy remembrance and devastating sorrow. With so much love expressed so beautifully in the first half of the book we instinctively fear what is to come as if all that light cast shadows across our path. Though the death of a loved partner - also a poet - is deeply personal these passionate ......
The Cold Stones of Feeling has been eleven years in the making and almost every poem has been published and or received an award. It is a collection that may well be the poet's last full book of poetry.
The Complete and Utter Truth About the World and Everything In It is a collection of dark-humoured short stories sometimes whimsical sometimes passionate about a variety of relationships set in different times and cultures. The stories tell of things going wrong in the pursuit of pleasure a child’s understanding of suicide ......
How autism nearly destroyed my family and what we did
When a child with autism is driven to the edge it is by the accumulation of explosive stimuli to which he cannot otherwise respond. The edge to which he takes you his family is at the time where he lives. You are being taken in a crisis to his world – and it is extremely troubling. To cope – at the very least cope because ......
