With Called to Coddiwomple Colleen Moyne draws the reader into a fascinating personal journey. This memoir-poetry book is not a tour guide of country South Australia but a deep insight into the writer as she "comes of age" and begins her nomadic travels in her beloved campervan and to paraphrase Colleen's own words to write from ......
This collection of short stories - probably my last - is made up of remnants snippets of dreams of things that have happened and things that I have only imagined. Hopefully together they make up a field of flowers even if the flowers are only made up of fabric.
William 'Bill' Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land. Hard work family and the sense of community were pitted against the harsh reality of this ancient land and its climate of drought and flooding rain. Overseas wars had taken many of their own but they had to believe it was ......
Canberra residents have little reason to know Charles Daley’s name or be aware of the details of his life in Victoria as a teacher botanist writer and historian. But they might be more familiar with the name of his eldest son Charles Studdy (C.S.) Daley whose close connection with the story of Canberra for over fifty years is the ......
Brushstrokes of the Mind brings together a collection of poems that spread the colour of nature and the psyche with light and shade; colour and monotone; form and abstract - like an artist's brush. In Barbara Gurney's fourth poetry collection where hope follows melancholy 'Roses of the Heart' 'Mellow Glow' and 'In the Moment' remind ......
Jill Gloyne lives on Kangaroo Island. Brushstrokes her latest collection includes many poems that have been previously published in a wide variety of journals and some that have won awards.
"One should never underestimate poetry's capacity to convey tenderness. Brink's reflections on the life that was - home husband family convention - are both touching and true. Charting the struggle to renew the self the poems become more playful and confident with an inventiveness of form and exuberance of wordplay." - Deb ......
Through beautiful and moving letters, Bring Us Home From Sorrow is an intimate portrait of losing a mother and the ways we are kept apart from those we love by distance, disease and death.
Gerard Manley Hopkins gave thanks ‘for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow’. These poems were all written on a small farm near the coast of South Australia a place of couple-colour skies and brinded cows. They draw inspiration from shifting shades both in the landscape and in the poet’s mind. They also acknowledge the ......
