The Lilac Bow is the first book of poetry by the author of the collections Excalibur’s Return A Season and a Time and most recently Spirit Eyes. Maurice Whelan is also the author of the acclaimed novel Boat People.
‘Another delightful collection of poems from John Egan. What graphic pictures he draws – one has a sense of actually being there. He is able to lead the reader into realms of imagination where the poem itself materialises into reality. I am always delighted with the Australian flavours that John can so easily summon up. He seems ......
A care worker's unwise interest in a dementia client leads him into a dark labyrinth. A man intent on suicide happens on his doppelganger. An abandoned woman wonders whether her lover's crime might prove his love. Eight new stories to beguile and captivate.
In 1755 the Portuguese capital Lisbon was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake and the resulting tsunamis and by fire. Perhaps 90 000 people died and 85% of buildings were shattered including the Royal Ribeiro Palace home to the archives of all Portuguese exploration in and around the East Indies including the voyages of Vasco da ......
Tess has lived in many cities until the hills and the sea called...this is where you belong. Her poems reflect the people she has met the places she has lived in and the memories of her wanderings. These poems are rich in their colour and movement capturing moments in a mix of form and knowledge. Published in many national and various ......
'Helen Budge brings to her poetry a keen eye and a clear mind. These give her poems an intensity enriched by her warmth. Many times in this collection a short poem is also a grand poem. It is a pleasure to read and recommend this book.' - Ron Heard Editor The Mozzie
'Like the brushstrokes of a Zen painter Helen Budge's poetry ......
'In The mathematics of love Sonia Hunt uses irony with flair whether she is teasing her resident mathematician in "An orange for you" with "I wanted to show you/ how an orange is peeled / but I was stopped/ by its bite on my tongue" or mocking herself in the playful Migraine sequence: "migraine is a lot like childbirth / you really ......
The Medicine Wheel turns through each of the eight sections in this collection with the poems gathered into each part touching on many subjects: nature poems running through the seasons personality portraits social concerns – such as the plight of refugees the treatment of animals and persecution leading one to consider the ......
‘Each of these fifty-seven offerings is a tone poem that condenses intensely personal impressions into gems of language accessible and inviting surpassing the writer’s previous engrossing collection. The volume flows: The language is so vivid the imagery so palpable that the individual pieces spring from the page. They ......
