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 ......
Seven stories six unique settings many divergent themes and characters.
Seventeen-year-old Jacob returns to Bali in ‘Surfing for Wayan’. Once terrified of surfboards he’s there to surf wild for four people including his brother killed in the 2002 Bali bombing.
The smirks on their faces and that rubbish-bin needle. Her eyes and nose streaming tears and gunk and that sleazebag’s hands all over her. So give him what he wanted after what he and his mongrel friends did to her? Bitter tears welled up again. ‘No ’ Jackson muttered to herself. ‘No way.’ There was enough ......
‘It’s rare to receive a collection of poems that explore the possibility of rhymes in their form. These poems wear their rhymes lightly and with grace as they make their way through moods and movements through the passions and anxieties of contemporary life.’ – Jen Webb
The Story of Barcroft Boake, Bush Poet of The Monaro
Barcroft Boake’s star blazed briefly and brightly as an Australian bush poet for little more than a year before he took his own life by hanging himself by his stockwhip in 1892 on the shore of Sydney Harbour. Barcroft’s life was touched by romance adventure and finally tragedy. In Where the Dead Men Lie his story is ......
In the summer of 18S9 ]ames leaves his sweetheart Sally to seek adventure as a stockman in the Snowy Mountains high country. Before the summer is over the Kiandra gold rush has broken and his life has taken a direction he could never have foreseen. The Snowy River Diggings at Kiandra saw one of the shortest but most turbulent rushes in ......
‘I have known Carolyn Cordon for many years and I’m proud to call her my friend. I have read her stories and watched as her poetry developed. Her poetry journey began in pain and self-examination yet has continued to grow into joyous maturity. Tense & Still is the culmination of that journey. In Tense & ......
'Poems to Wear is a wonderful collection – brilliantly conceived beautifully written. The editors and translators do the rarest of things: they bring the whole world of dress fashion and its accessories to life. Part I contains haiku and tanka by modern and contemporary Japanese poets and Part II contains haiku and tanka by ......
The poems selected in this book – taken from Thérèse Corfiatis’s four published books and a Pocket Poet – convey striking images of landscape childhood travel and place. Some of the poems have a mystical element. Colour light and sound weave together the threads of human experience. This book resonates with a ......
