'Another collection of experiences and imaginings from the watchful eye of the poet who gave us Afghanistan - waiting for the bus. Here the poet weaves and gifts us with yet another salusalu (garland) of memories of and a passion for people struggling to adapt to the realities of their environments that at times constitute "land beyond repair" ......
A Season and a Time has poems that are snapshots and poems that read like short stories. They scan Ireland's green fields and Australia's ochre earth. Inspiration comes from a snowdrop a telephone call a broken musical instrument a night spent in sub-zero temperatures in the Snowy Mountains. The subject matter ranges from activities that ......
Life's Shadows continues the melancholy journey begun in Footprints of a Stranger. Barbara Gurney's poetry expresses others' hurt with a caring voice and a message of hope. Grieve with 'The Ticket Home' overcome fear with 'Conquering' and finally 'Sing Loudly'.
Romance adventure humour intrigue murder quirky twists... You'll find them all and more in these collected short stories - some of them prize-winners - written by South Australian author Chris Leckonby.
Blundstones and a Brown Dog is about living in the real world with your heart and your eyes wide open. This collection written over a twenty-five-year period speaks about the perplexity of simple things: love death longing friendship hope. Its voice is human fallible incomplete. It's about the journey and the dreaming; it's about lives as ......
January Melbourne hot mid-summer. The holidays fizzle in a kind of endless dryness. A heat haze off the bitumen and the ache of the afternoon sun. A bunch of kids starts grade six at Peel Street School. It's the high tide of the post-war migrant boom; every term there's someone new - from England Ireland Italy Greece Germany Hungary ......
Footprints of a Stranger is a collection of emotions - tiptoeing between the experiences of the author and the sentiments of others. Barbara Gurney's poetry passionately explores attitudes observes nature and reminisces. Nature compels us to take heed - 'stand up bring the world your courage'. Contemplations express the shadows lurking within us ......
'This delightful suite of stories reflects on the writing lives of women today. Here Virginia Woolf casts her shadow and also sheds her light on the stresses and the joys of creating fiction. Piquant and pithy these are explorations of how it is for the woman writer with or without a room of her own.' - Carmel Bird
Cleaning out the closet is typically a woman's task. It is also a perfect metaphor for the creative endeavour as it rummages through junk - items long discarded or abandoned - for signs of renewal. In the tradition of the great female storytellers - Alice Munro Doris Lessing Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf - Mary Pomfret reveals the dramatic ......
