'Ecce Homo!' His challenge echoes down the centuries 'Behold the Man!' How will nine painters each with their own particular style culture attitudes and ambitions relate to the challenge? However they react Ecce Homo will relate to each individually. A painter may accept reject try to avoid or argue with Him. The reaction of a devout ......
Philip Radmall’s poems have been published in many anthologies and literary magazines in Australia and the UK. The poems in this collection articulate our emotional incursions into the landscape around us; how we measure our experiences of change and growth how we resist and endure with the land as backdrop. Poems here have been praised ......
'Judith EP. Johnson's haiku are a quiet seam of gold. Time and again she offers finely seen acclamations of the ordinary and everyday in celebration of the quotidian. She sees the earth not just from the moon with the distance of objectivity but also intimately with subjective touches from close at hand. These are poems to roll on your ......
'If each life is a world what is a world of billions of lives? Sweeping through evolutionary time through the passage of ages Rosanna Licari's Earlier looks back applies its forensic gaze to an insistent pervasive history of births and creations human and other. Weaving threads and connections Licari's poems investigate rich and ......
‘Witty finely crafted genuinely funny Carey’s poems surprise with their clever double takes on society’s faults and foibles. At once erudite and bitingly topical Carey has a keen eye for the humorous detail and the deeper resonances of global stupidity. Carey shows himself adept at both the brief political quip like the ......
Driving into the Dark is a collection of poems published over the last five years. There are narrative poems and poems that respond to daily life and to world events. They reflect upon life's precious moments its vagaries its joys and the nature of love and loss.
John Egan is a Sydney poet who also lives on the south coast of NSW. He was a high-school teacher of English for twenty-two years Second Master of Bankstown Grammar School for nine years and later taught English as a foreign language and university preparation courses at the University of NSW Wollongong University College and Newcastle ......
Flight can imply both to fly and to flee. The trajectories of these stories span a spectrum of abjection and desire encompassing despair and the transformative as characters encounter each other confront their demons and grapple with the circumstances of their lives.
'In this collection Jena Woodhouse explores the taunting allure of ......
Blood flows on the war-torn streets of Masar e-Sharif. To try to cope with that and barbarous Taliban rule Soraya illegally reads and attends a secret girls’ school. But when her mother is killed in a missile attack all Soraya’s girlish dreams and aspirations appear to be crushed forever. One night her father mentions a cousin ......
