‘Between Two Moons is a delightful gift by Judith E.P. Johnson from Tasmania an island far in the south. The scenes she captures with her warm-hearted and observant eyes in her daily life and also in nature are quite charming and agreeable. This collection will be my favourite for a long time.’ - Satoru Kanematsu ......
Migration has played a large part in Australia's history and culture since 1788 and in this collection Adrian Rogers reflects on the migrant experience evoking the northern hemisphere through his knowledge of Ireland and setting it against the reality of modern Australia thereby highlighting both the differences and similarities between the two ......
David Brelsford emigrated aged 22 and fell in love with Australia straightaway. ‘The only regret I have about coming here ’ he says ‘is that I didn’t come earlier.’ He took up long distance running in his fifties and has undertaken charity runs to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease research. He lives in ......
Most of us have packed a suitcase or a small bag to go on a journey somewhere... But to pack a suitcase for the last journey of all? The hand luggage crammed full or almost empty with which to arrive in heaven? Angela Pritchard's childhood is in post-war London and later she trains as a nurse in one of the big teaching hospitals there. After ......
These poems have been a lifetime in the making. A lifetime filled with love joy work longing and loss. A lifetime that came to an end too soon in between the writing and publishing of this work. So these poems tell John Harper's story from birth to death and everything in between.
'These poems about friendship and belonging - I've had them with me for just two weeks and yet I feel as much at home with them as with friends I've known all my life. Meg Mooney has the language to speak of silences and centres - and of breathing and heartbeats the odd fact that one keeps growing older - and of country and time and how to listen ......
Surprising personal glimpses of the eminent and enigmatic Australian poet
‘I wonder sometimes if the literary pests are writing memoirs: “The last time I saw her she was pale and sick but smiling bravely.”’ So mused the dying Gwen Harwood in a letter written a few months before she succumbed to cancer. Nearly two ......
‘With their seeking out of common ground between strangers mothers and daughters friends and lovers Jane Williams’s poems are full of warmth and delight in being alive. Bullies funerals and ‘business as usual’ exist here but so too does the possibility of being ‘surprised by joy’. The language is ......
One summer’s day thirteen-year-old Kirsty-Lee comes home from school to find her father has left them. This novel explores the ways in which she comes to terms with this and the subsequent changes in her family.
Zenda Vecchio is an award-winning writer whose numerous short stories have been published in a variety of ......
