In his first week of research in Sydney's Mitchell Library where he sat unearthing the life of Louisa Lawson mother of Henry for his first radio play in 1956 Brian Hungerford lost concentration when he noticed a boxed paragraph about an illiterate teenage-convict girl who had demolished the ruling 'exclusives' a group of magistrates led ......
In his interpretation of Antigone Seamus Heaney says ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles Brecht Ted Hughes Anne Carson and most particularly Euripides. Set ......
An ambitious lawyer confronts his ideals and his Greek heritage when seeking promotion in an establishment firm in the early ’80s. An introverted TAFE lecturer grabs a surprising way out of her tidy and predictable life. And a would-be lover becomes obsessed after a rude rejection. Robert Horne’s fascinating range of characters ......
Set at an abandoned bore-hole in South’s Australia’s Nullarbor plain this epic poem in four parts sparse as the plain itself offers its vast and solitudinous explanation of Australia.
Tim Metcalf is an award-winning poet who has for many years worked around Australia as a country doctor giving him an intimate knowledge of ......
Tango is a dance of passion. It draws partners into an intimate relationship. Sofia loves to tango but as she dances she is confronted by society’s infatuation with the young and the beautiful. In the painful aftermath of a brief affair Sofia seeks to find out what she actually knows about herself and the past. She looks for answers in ......
Born in India spent nine months of the year at school in the Himalayas started hunting shooting and fishing at an early age Richard Inwood lived life to the full from childhood. His family returned to their roots in England and he started life at sea. His adventurous life continued and he began writing. Unfortunately all his early ......
‘Sit quietly with these poems and you’ll come to know how stillness can come alive with blossom memory playfulness birdsong companionship prayer mystery.’ – Peter Bishop Creative Director Varuna – The Writers’ House
'The Water Cart is a sophisticated and poetic tale of transcendence above contaminated and misguided perceptions of our differences to a place where Australian hearts beat closely together; the landscape is harsh yet humanity is connected. Through the simple beauty of a verse novel Malcolm McFarlane challenges us all to ......
‘It is poetically satisfying when gutsy is elegant and outspoken is gentle when the snake nerve writhes with realisation so that wonder is reborn accompanied by the music of new knowledge by the rewards of a past paid for and a future fortified. The maturity of these poems combined with the poet’s belief in the redemptive power ......
