Catharine Keir chose her family well. At the time of her birth there was little support for families to raise a child with Down syndrome at home either within most families or from the community at large. The strength warmth and moral courage of the Keir family was just what Catharine needed. I found Edna’s story to be a delightfully ......
Catching the Light is Suzanne Edgar’s fourth collection of poetry. In it this ‘intelligent inventive and gifted poet continues her daring discoveries and explorations’ (Les Murray) of both the light and the darker sides of life. When reviewing The Love Procession (2012) the late Peter Pierce praised ......
‘Some poets have the ability to capture a mood a feeling a happening in a few well-chosen words. Pam Cole has been touching my soul for more years than I can remember. She is an astute observer of her surroundings and the people who inhabit her world. This collection of poems takes the reader on an intimate journey through her life. ......
Welcome to Live Poets @ Don Bank (née Live Poets’ Society) at 25. Concentrating on the years 2005 to 2015 this book is as much about the venue and how it operates as it is about the poems or the poets. We hope you enjoy the secrets within…
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 ......
