We disappear into the poinciana shadows into the dream that alcohol and music and love create. I go in a dream in a myth. This is how it should be I think. This is the pagan story the truth the fairytales promised us the ending imagined from the earliest of murmured memories...But myths are not founded on reality and fairytales do not ......
The powerful stories collected in Crossroads deal with the viciousness of apartheid and show how that policy dehumanised South Africans. The stories are populated by desperate characters who are damaged by the conflict and driven to violence. They and the state are all at their own crossroads. This collection was shortlisted for the ......
David Brelsford was born in Nottinghamshire and came to Australia in 1965. He worked for many years as a postman before becoming a library technician. He lived in Sydney Hawaii Queanbeyan and Brisbane before retiring to Launceston Tasmania in 2007. He is married with three sons and – to date – one grandson. A long-distance ......
‘It is a gift to take time to notice and another to bring one’s observations into creative verse. John Egan does both with craft and conciseness. He peacefully explores his world in all its potential and limitations. It is this note of quiet unruffled integrity that makes his poetry a pleasant reading experience. We are fortunate ......
TC looks forward to a lazy summer at Semaphore's beach. Only problem her mother has taken a job in the Hills and moved TC into an academically demanding high school. Signed up for rowing TC is plunged into the harrowing sport where she must quickly bond with the rowing quad if they are to have any chance of beating the favoured private college ......
‘What Rosalee Kiely has garnered from American poets – Cohen Rich – is pure gain. But what this poet gives of herself in Creature is more surprising – movement among landscapes life as encounters and discovery a voice rapid and flexible. Answers that are questioning an alertnesss bared to life’s every ......
Cracks in the Path is a reflection of the poet's life in Australia's capital city an environment dominated by imposing national monuments and landmarks. Negotiating the everyday comforts and discomforts Brenda Goggs is interested in the intersections between these ambiguous states of being.
Chiperoni: term for a kind of fog drizzle rain experienced in the Shire Highlands of southern Malawi during the cold dry season; name derived from Mount Chiperone an isolated mountain peak at the southern extremity of East African mountain ranges covered with montane forests and surrounded by deciduous woodlands.
A kaleidoscope of social history and down-to-earth humour tracing the life of Ray Clift through sickness recovery sadness the discovery of the truth about his birth and many life-threatening moments as a long-serving Adelaide police officer during which he received citations for courage. Not satisfied with a quiet retirement he moved into a ......
