'When I see a review that starts "X is a fine observer..." my mind numbs over. I see X at a desk staring out a window wrestling the chaos into order. Reality isn't like that more like lurching through corridors with a hand-held camera. An open mind in the grand sense is open to everything even its own uncertainties and wild imaginings ......
Frances Daggar Roberts is an Australian poet who grew up in a remote area where she began to write poetry to capture the love she felt for plants animals and landscape. She lives with her partner in a bushland setting close to Sydney and now focuses on her art and poetry having retired from her psychology work at the end of 2022. As a ......
In 'Dynamo' the antics of a dog cause trouble for his owners. In 'Running the Gauntlet' two wannabee cattle rustlers start out on a hapless pursuit. A year 10 student finds a hoped-for friend has a dark side in 'Killing Two Birds'. A teenager's yearning for more height has a strange outcome in 'There Are More Things'. Enjoy these and six more ......
This collection bringing together poems written over a period of ten years while Ann Lax was a member of Poets Zinc a poetry writing group shows the diversity and progress of her art. Her style is spare and insightful with at times touches of humour.
An engrossing detailed moving account of a community dealing with crisis. The Australian landscape the 1970s and the sense of Australian character and culture are evocatively portrayed.’ – Nigel Krauth
‘I’m impressed with the wealth of experience and information re-created. Congratulations on such a diverse ......
Robin Sinclair lives in the Adelaide Hills where she paints writes walks gardens and observes. She has a husband who makes puppets a son who has adventures and writes about it another who writes verse novels and a daughter who composes music and teaches others to love it. Family habits include writing silly verse at Christmas and reading ......
Set against the backdrop of war-torn Rhodesia Climbing Trees is a haunting and heartfelt memoir where innocence is fragile and family ties are as complex as the political turmoil unfolding around them.
Growing up on a beloved family farm surrounded by her maternal relatives and an adored grandfather Beverley Campbell's ......
Cleaning out the closet is typically a woman's task. It is also a perfect metaphor for the creative endeavour as it rummages through junk - items long discarded or abandoned - for signs of renewal. In the tradition of the great female storytellers - Alice Munro Doris Lessing Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf - Mary Pomfret reveals the dramatic ......
Danger. Imprisonment. Death. This is the fate in store for anyone who dares defy the German authorities during their occupation on the island of Jersey during World War II. Undeterred Lucy Schwob ('Claude') and Suzanne Malherbe ('Marcel') embark upon a campaign of rebellion. By day the two women present to the world as quiet cat-loving ......
