'The beautifully quirky title of Karen Armstrong’s first collection of poetry maps the final journey of a friend who is dying of cancer. These poems capture the warmth of unselfish love; of a relationship despite trying circumstances. A pact between two friends where one shares the burden vicariously as the other faces debilitating ......
Stephen Mallick is a Tasmanian poet and artist. The poems of Just a Moment explore times past events and memories of childhood and adolescence the natural world and the child’s insights into a family in pain. The poems have a rich lyricism employing subtle rhyme and rhythm rooted in the natural cadences of everyday speech. ......
Bella was only seventeen when her mother Elie died. Jack and Katie were even younger. Each dealt with the loss in different ways: Bella became the surrogate mother the responsible one; Katie the arty rebellious eternal wild child; and Jack never settled changing jobs and girlfriends looking for the next adventure. When Bella discovers ......
"John Malone’s lively and quirky imagination produces widely appealing poetry. The poems in Seeing Things are keenly observed accessible and often humorous or whimsical. How fortunate we are that one of South Australia’s most published children’s poets is sharing his other poetry here in Seeing Things. ......
Written in Sand embraces a wide range of poetic forms and subject matter. There is something here for everybody: humour joy hope and occasional philosophy. Several of the poems reflect the close relationship between the author and his natural environment
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 ......
In Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living eco-philosopher Freya Mathews livens up her theme – that the company of animals is indispensable to human existence – by way of the story of an anarchic but irresistible pig.
‘In this captivating story of a pig and a philosopher Freya takes up the narratival mode ......
Peter Hansen spent 40 years working and managing sheep stations in far west New South Wales. He then spent a couple of years living in the UK which gave him a different perspective on life. He currently works in Aged Care in Melbourne. This is his second volume of poetry
‘Everyone has a button story but plunging into this collection of button poems is full of surprises; amazing fictions lie scattered amongst poignant memories and the everyday made strange. Far from being buttoned-up these poems reveal life in all its guises: familiar heartbreaking erotic funny enigmatic…whatever did happen to ......
