In his eleventh poetry collection John Jenkins displays a boldness and creative variety across a wide sweep of subject matter which should hold great appeal to readers. Here are poems of heartfelt emotion balanced against playful humour plus jabs of fast wit and satirical asides plus serious reflection on some pressing political and social ......
Brenda Saunders is an artist and writer of Aboriginal and British descent. She has read in several poetry events with the Sydney Writers’ Festival and is a member of DiVerse poets who present their ekphrastic poetry at public art exhibitions in Sydney. Brenda was awarded the 2012 Varuna Dorothy Hewett Poetry Fellowship and in 2013 a ......
It's the 1970s and Anne thought a fresh start in a northern town would be the adventure of a lifetime. But her husband Thomas has other plans. While he is busy with his career Anne struggles to adapt to a new culture a growing family and a marriage that seems to be unravelling in ways she doesn't understand. As the years pass Anne finds herself ......
Praise for New Skin: 'When I first came across Fraser Mackay's wry ruminations I liked how they were rooted in place and gave off an air of hardy ......
The Sun Behind the Sun covers a great diversity of subjects moods and scenes with four distinct threads interweaving their way through the collection. Journeys the nature of time the four seasons and that question with so many possible answers: what is real and what is illusory? As for the collection’s title read the last ......
This book contains two complementary stories written by two generations of the one family. It spans three centuries – from the 1860s to the present day 2016. The swagman Sully and Russ Gibson parson were both born in the nineteenth century though several decades apart. New South Wales was then a colonial state of Great Britain. The ......
This collection of short and 'micro' stories arises from imagination working on snippets of ideas gleaned across the times and places of my life. Many have an underlying autobiographical origin but even these are fictionalised. They are not intended as a factual record but as places where your thoughts like mine can come to play and dance. ......
Michele Fermanis-Winward lives close to the summit of the World Heritage Blue Mountains in New South Wales Australia on Darug and Gundungurra Land. With a long career as a visual artist she considers herself an Imagist poet. Through her writing she rails against injustice and discrimination in all its forms. Michele is passionate in her ......
Gawain and the Green Knight is the celebrated poem from the time of Chaucer written in the dialect then current in the north of England. Chaucer's language outlasted this dialect. The poem draws on rich Arthurian and folk traditions involving the Green Man and knightly virtue. It has been frequently translated but ......
