An eclectic collection of short stories tackling subjects as varied as psychological mind games the effects of war on those left behind the vagaries of heterosexual and lesbian love self-abortion and murder told through characters as diverse as a retired Light Horseman a lighthouse keeper’s wife and an old Aboriginal man and set ......
Firmly rooted in the past these poems branch out from Old English and traditional ballads to the language of televised archeology and the travel guide twisting from folk song to fairy tale to café gossip. In a tangled conversation between past and present the voices of Vikings poets lovers talking skulls shipwrecked sailors house ......
In this collection of poetry the author explores the many facets of what it means to live life through the lens of schizophrenia. And yet it is more than that. Black humour irreverent mayhem and cheerful tragedy all vie for the right to co-exist within unreality’s dark prism. Where Words Go When They Die sways from surreal ......
A collection of stories emanating from the experience of growing up living and working in Australia’s third metropolis. ‘Denying the Faith’ and ‘This Clown’ record the fearful impressions of a childhood spent in Irish Catholic suburbia reflected upon later in life when the fear has subsided but the guilt remains. ......
I hope readers will enjoy this collection from my own dreaming. Poems are collections of words assembled to express personal passions and as such may well reveal more than they conceal.
Peter Strawhan was born at the ‘Old Queen Vic’ Maternity Hospital Rosewater in 1932. A bleak wartime childhood in a working-class western ......
The characters in this collection are often dislocated outsiders looking for something more from their experience – some finding it some learning from it some losing it. The stories are blackly humorous twisting the reader towards an offbeat kind of compassion that lives in the heart for days.
In his first collection of verse poet James Milenkovic offers a fresh vision of the Australian landscape and its people both ancient and modern. Under his pen the land assumes a dreamy ambiguous and almost enigmatic quality that sometimes thwarts and sometimes amazes its human inhabitants. Readers will take much pleasure in the situations ......
Set in times ranging from the mediaeval to present day and in places as far apart as Australia Europe and North America these eighteen short stories reveal life in its bewildering sometimes funny and at times achingly sad moments. All is witnessed through the eyes of diverse often flawed characters: a professional cyclist who must ......
Adrian Flavell lives and writes in the Adelaide Hills South Australia. He has written scripts for children’s television and environmental education material for the Keep Australia Beautiful Council. His series of three children’s books Dans Days originally published by McGraw-Hill is currently published by Clean Slate ......
