'The poetry of Keith MacNider is like a ground spring rising from deep within and lifting the reader to the airy grace of rivers trees stones clouds and to our human connection to the past and to the land. As a boy in Hong Kong Keith spent hours lying in grassy fields looking at the clouds - thinking and listening to the ......
Lives hold promise and promises. Keeping one promise might mean breaking another for life is anything but simple. I had promised myself I would not go back to England – or if I did I would stay there. I did not want to pull myself up by the roots to leave it again. But I also promised Stephen that I would go anywhere with him. We had ......
Conflict is a normal part of everyday life yet it is often something that people try to avoid or ignore in the hope that it will go away. Conflict Management provides useful information on how to embrace conflict and manage it in effective ways that enhance and strengthen relationships. The book provides important foundation knowledge ......
These stories are about being young getting old and life in between. An Australian teenage girl in 1970s country NSW waits in a wet wintery small New Zealand town for the arrival of her illicit lover and the decision that will change her life 'Mary's Story'. Three children are washed out to sea clinging to an upturned table when floods ......
This collection of linked tanka between two Australian and two American poets reminds us how exciting it is to colour outside the lines. Unexpected responses enliven the series as poets from different hemispheres move through the four seasons. For example Fielden’s final lines in ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ ‘to swim without ......
'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.
