The poems in Down the Rabbit Hole as the title suggests take the reader on a spiralling journey through personal social and global upheaval. Kate Maxwell's second collection explores the collective mood of uncertainty around the onset and disruption of the global pandemic years. Her poems focus on concepts of disturbance loss and ......
Death wears designer jeans and T-shirt with monogrammed pocket... Peter thinks Prokofiev got it all wrong... The government has a plan to reduce the burgeoning cost of care for the elderly and promotes it very carefully but there’s always someone… Stories by Brennan O’Shea have been described as ‘quirky’. ......
How ordinary becomes extraordinary when you empty the cupboard and unravel the jottings. The you will find that all lives are remarkable. Some make you weep more than others but most are heroic.
John Blackhawk lived in India and England before migrating to Australia. Previously he worked as a teacher in Sydney. These days home is Umina Beach on the New South Wales Central Coast. He currently works as a canine behavioural therapist. Dogs have become a major part of his life. They pervade his poetry as does the beautiful coastal ......
Dog follows an Israeli officer returning from service who spirals into heroin addiction under the weight of PTSD. Among Tel Aviv’s marginalised drug community, an unexpected bond with a stray dog offers fragile hope. The novel explores trauma and physical and moral injury, revealing how redemption can emerge from unlikely connections.
A street called “Do Not Forget Me” in beautiful Budapest, Hungary, holds special significance for Erica Frydenberg, born there during World War II as Hungary’s leaders carried out Hitler’s ‘final solution’.
Survival desire disaster; misadventure murder and magic combine in this unique collection of tales set in locations including old rural Australia present-day cities and the distant mystical past. Twenty-seven short stories from renowned Australian ûction writer and poet Julie Thorndyke will take you on tantalising journeys in the company of ......
'With its beer-drenched Blundstones cricket balls retrieved from neighbour's backyards misbehaving pastor's kids and crabs plucked from the Moyne river O'Reilly's poetry collects and curates a series of vernacular objects and experiences that comprise life in Australia and beyond. From the streets of Ballarat to the dry highways of West Texas ......
‘Charles Freyberg entices us into a midnight world where passion brings both rapture and peril. Like Kenneth Slessor Dorothy Hewitt and Michael Dransfield he portrays the creative denizens of Kings Cross after dark with lyrical poems mourning the devastation wrought by addiction plague and madness.’ – Lou ......
