'In this collection the reader discovers an inquisitive mind equally as concerned for world issues as for the dull conformity that can settle over small towns. Antonia's writing artfully moves from well researched topics to finely tuned observations of everyday life.' - Hilary Beaton
Ray Stuart was born in Sydney. His poetry has been published widely over south-east Australia in the Northern Territory and in Friendly Street collections. In 1999 he won the Satura Prize for ‘Duty Call’ reviewed by Ray Liversidge as ‘one long elegant and lyrical sentence describing an unconditional reconciliatory ......
'To Origins and Back is a rich meditation on what it means to be human. In this collection Greg Tome ruminates on the universal and the personal: the tug of kith and kin the scars of the past and the seasons that ebb and flow around us and inside us. Employing dynamic lineation lyrical word combinations and fresh angles on ......
Wendell Watt lives in Sydney. Apart from family her two loves have been science and writing. She chose science for a secure livelihood but now writing takes top place. Her work has been published in newspapers journals and anthologies and has won various prizes and a poetry chapbook Oranges Grow on Trees was published by Ginninderra Press. ......
“Margaret Clark’s poetry is a joy. I loved Frayed Edges her first book and I read it in one sitting such was my delight! In this marvellous new collection Clark continues her insightful foray into the experiences of a life well-spent. Her excellent use of metaphor is a powerful tool. For instance Clark skilfully ......
The story of Tristan is well known in the Western tradition of Romance. Few have not heard of Wagner's opera and the love elixir which Tristan and Iseut drink by accident. The story is already well established in the early medieval period where there are several competing manuscripts most of them incomplete for various reasons. John Watson ......
Over several decades Ursula Nixon has written poetry to share with friends and fellow poets. She has performed at poetry festivals and gatherings on the Monaro and on the NSW South Coast and more recently has been challenged by poetry slams writing in limited time to themes suggested by the audience. The poems in Twist and Knot ......
In the title story of this collection Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious prank. A manager tries to molest her. These events occur in the stories set in a fictitious agency where she is a badly treated casual. In 'Bad ......
Two Green Parrots positions our lives in a broader ecological context. Anne M. Carson’s poems affirm human culture and values in the face of implacable realties. Beauty and suffering are skilfully interwoven to create poems with the meditative power to move and sustain.
