It is South Africa in the early years of the scourge of the apartheid system its prejudices and injustices affecting the fabric of the society. Against this background is the thwarted love affair of Daniel and Maryssa two young people from traumatic backgrounds. Daniel is a brilliant young doctor who is unable to admit to himself the love he ......
In The Ruby Red's Affair Scoot Valuti undertakes a visit to a local lesbian bar/night club meets up with her friends and in search of a lifelong loving relationship based on mutual respect and appreciation has a brief flirtation which results sadly in a serious affair which lasts a nanosecond and ends badly. Just as the ......
'Collins's work has clarity and insight demonstrates a skilful turn of phrase and covers considerable ground with swiftness and precision. It values analysis but is also animated by strong currents of feeling and conviction.' - Paul Hetherington NeoPoetica
The Saying of Names is the first poetry collection by Karen Blaylock who lives in the Adelaide Hills. Her finely wrought and closely observed poems will appeal to poetry lovers everywhere.
'Here you have fundamental poetry about water earth air and even fire. Jeannie Lawson has a keen eye for nature in all its guises. She has an admirable sense of detail and a rare sense of the poignant. Her time spent underwater is evident in many of these poems. In fact you can be under the ocean cavorting with cetaceans without getting wet. ......
Why has poetry fallen so sadly by the literary wayside of our hectic digital age? An age if ever there was one needing the kind of humanising empathy that readable (and quotable) poetry can provide. One of the central problems facing poetry today is that we seem to have forgotten (in some cases perhaps deliberately) its link to the emotional ......
A rich woman confined to a wheelchair commissions a portraitist to create for her an ideal mate. A successful doctor confronts his past life in a deserted cottage. A young idealistic teacher is caught in a web of power in a decaying country town. In these gripping gothic tales individuals’ fears and fantasies come ......
Everyone has a story. It would be foolish indeed to make comparisons for there is always someone better or worse off than oneself. However there is a comforting and healing sense of kinship with others who have had similar experiences. Even death that which we call the last act of our play does not end a story. Everyone who has existed no ......
In this compelling collection eighty-nine writers traverse their particular territory of loss and bring back travellers’ tales. Their skilfully crafted accounts are insightful inspiring amusing heart-breaking resilient and above all damn good reading.
‘This beautiful collection of writings explores the landscape of ......
