'Loss longing and nostalgia infuse the poems in this poignant collection. Some poems are elegiac some confessional others alert to environmental exploitation sexuality and human suffering. Here is a poet engaged with his world and showing us what it is to remember to question to see and feel.' - Julie Maclean
Aubrey believed that life was a game a test to be played in the best way he could. He was born when South Australia was seventy-three years old. Over a century later when he died a nation had been built people had endured two world wars and a depression technology had changed communications forever and society was accepting standards that ......
A former lecturer in Greek Roman and Ancient Near Eastern history and literature at the University of Tasmania Graeme Hetherington has spent much of his adult life living at large in Europe and Turkey to be closer to the source of his subject matter. More often than not his response to his culturally charged surroundings has taken the form ......
Virgilio Goncalves has worked out finally why he has a nomadic bent. It's because a lot of the time he's seeking the tribe that truly typifies him. Is he South African Australian or Portuguese? Place has loomed like a restless shadow in his life. But which of the three countries to which he has ties is the one most a part of him? This ......
My love for the water of the sea of river bay and ocean from childhood to now its call is strong and I yearn to be close to the flow of tides. In Aquamarine include poems on the tragedy of refugees who came to us by boat seeking refuge. There are poems about convicts and slaves floods and climate change. It is a collection ......
'In this fine and eclectic collection of short stories flash fiction and poetry Roland Leach explores the human condition with humour and heart. These are interior stories that often grapple with the ache and drive for connection the puzzlement and the fear. With the sublime assuredness of his writing Leach leads the reader deep into the ......
Voracious is a mythical beast. He lives on profits and is always hungry. A Midas beast all he touches becomes a commodity. He appears in or is hinted at throughout this collection of beautifully crafted poems. In her seventh poetry collection Karen Throssell includes poems about obesity and anorexia agribusiness diets and fads the ......
After working for nearly fifty years mostly in leadership positions in education social welfare health and the arts David Meldrum describes himself as a very lucky man. Always drawn to the projects that might make a real difference especially for people in trouble he sometimes found himself facing failure and even danger. More often the ......
