A Sparrow Splashing is a journey into the heart of the Buddha’s teachings. This book of stories and poetry looks at the life of the author through the eyes of three characters: a child named Little Pebble a young man called the Seeker and the Teacher a Buddhist Monk. The reader is invited to reflect and meditate upon the ......
“This is distilled cartography of a woman’s life. From a child’s-eye view of drought and hardship in the outback to the pains and love of motherhood Broughton turns her lens of brevity and poignancy on a rich life. With meticulous observation (‘a mopoke echoes its own hollow song’) wry humour (‘my mother is ......
These stories show how your fate is twisted by choices you make. In one tale a woman realises how carefully she ignored signs of her lover's deceit and the pages of ......
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 ......
‘With this her first published collection of poetry Jill Nevile demonstrates that contemporary verse need not be oblique or obscure. She writes with an intriguing and refreshing candour on topics as diverse as her life in Britain her flirtations with Greece and her love affair with Australia. Writing in both free and traditional verse ......
'I first met Jill Nevile when she was a regular contributor to the monthly meetings of the Gosford Bush Poets but it was not until I read the collected verses in A Scent of Frangipani that Jill's true skill as a writer became evident. The way she has captured her obvious love of the garden the beautiful area of ......
Two stories. Two individuals. One journey. One destiny.
Caught Between Love and Loss
Richard’s dream is to get out of the city and build a house in the country. When he meets Rachel there’s suddenly a reason to stay. Can he convince her to live amongst the beauty of nature? Rachel takes her first step towards this new ......
‘What is impressive is the ambit of this collection the way Morgan explores with equal authority the natural world history mythology the vagaries of humankind and grief. A finely-tuned intelligence shines through these poems which are lexically rich and jam-packed with precise imagery. Her poems marry the down-to-earth to the ......
Cancer is a disease with a persona of mystery often referred to through the use of negative metaphors such as alien evil and foreign while its medical treatment and recovery phases are described with warfare metaphors and sadly when death is the end result one is said to have lost their battle with cancer. However Cameron in this debut ......
