Stories of laughter and tears. A jealous young woman is trapped in remote bushland. Should she save her husband or let him die? A man travelling on top of a train during the Depression hurtles towards a tunnel not knowing if his head will be chopped off. Wartime prime minister Ben Chifley spins the chocolate wheel in a country town. An Irish ......
‘These days many individual collections of poetry (and some anthologies as well) are presented in language which all too often offers the particular experiences of the poets as if they were clues in a cryptic crossword. If we could only put those poetic hints together (we tell ourselves) we’d be in a position to know what they were ......
The Warm Corners women are connected by place and by relation-ship. All have spent time on the land called ‘Warm Corners’ shaped by the Jingalalla River. Their children grew up in this remote and beautiful place in the foothills of the Snowies which has a way of calling people back. As this collection shows the Warm Corners women ......
Washday Pockets is a collection of poems that will delight any reader. Written in an accessible language domestic relationships are examined in all their grittiness. It is an honest disclosure of domestic life where sorrow loss and separation are interwoven with love humour and an over-riding celebration of life.
'Bill Wootton's poems are kites flown in the sky of our daily lives - hold on to them go with them.' - Ross Gillett
'Bill Wootton is an empathetic poet with a clear and focused voice. His finely detailed and artfully compressed narrative poems are like mini-novels or movies. His work is accessible yet deep infused with ......
'Carol Chandler's writing subtly compels you into a "dark wood" of her characters' "niggling restlessness"so you feel you have one foot in ordinary "reality" and one (metaphorical) foot in the dubious illumination of dream/memory/speculation... These are forcefully charged fragments of (dis)connection where glittering surfaces and shadowy ......
‘Greg Tome’s poetry is always immediate and felt. His responses to the immediacy and intimacy of daily living are counterpoints to those poems in which he explores the pain of the human condition and ultimately indicate how the personal and the communal are inextricably entwined.’ - Trish Topp
'This book is a love affair between the poet and the English language with flirting passion and yes even a tiff or two but each giving as good as the other all with quirkiness and humour. Dig in ruminate on Mike's take on the world; it might just change yours. Love it.' - David Cookson
This is Ron's first book. It took a while to get up the courage but he's pretty proud of it. The poems flow from seventy years of experience: farming childhood love and sex and travels of the world of the word and of the mind.
