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Capturing life's seasons - birth to death and everything in between - and juxtaposing this with the earth's seasons and the rhythms of insomnia, Kristin Martin uncovers what it means to be alive and...

A trip to China in 2007 was the catalyst for this collection. Rapid changes are taking place there, yet many people are still clinging to the past. This observation led Barbara Olds to examine how...

A collection of poems from Strawhan's own dreaming: "Poems are collections of words assembled to express personal passions and as such may well reveal more than they conceal."Author: Peter...

Pamir is the story of a ship, from her building in 1905 to her loss at sea in 1957. She was one of the last of her kind, a celebration of the age of sail, of a seaman's craft developed over thousands...

I never knew my grandmother, Mary Ellen Kerr Peach. Then some old letters came into my possession; my paper chase began. I learnt how she epitomised the young, educated women of a century ago who...

These poems reveal various treasures observed, carried or embraced through a shifting landscape. Sue Cook reveals, re-images and crafts her engagement, sometimes alone or in the company of those she...

Twenty-two years after her first book of poetry was published, award-winning author Indrani Perera is back with her second, much anticipated collection of poems. Indrani invites us to dance with the...

Jenni Nixon's passages is a family history, memoir and social commentary unlike any other, fashioned with a poetic voice distinctly her own. At turns harsh and tender, suffused with biting humour,...

Paying the Price: When a good man makes bad decisionsAuthor: Simon FeldmanPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Jan 08, 2025Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

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...

In Petrescu's poem, Afternoon at Buon Giorno's, Poetry with a capital P, elegantly sitting drinking lemon, lime and bitters, remarks that her interest now is in the lyrical stance of the ordinary. To...

The poems herein are, by turn, responses to situations, time or place, sometimes a dream, an artwork, social mores and humour. Poetry is a concise way of making note of my response to such stimuli. I...

Author: John WatsonPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: March 17, 2021Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761090747ISBN-13: 9781761090745

Kevin Densley's Please Feed the Macaws...I'm Feeling Too Indolent is lively as a string of firecrackers. Combining wry observations on the shortcomings of culture and politics with keen historical...

Poem Is A ParachuteAuthor: Megan SchaffnerPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Oct 10, 2016Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1740279395ISBN-13:...

Learning to speak, read and write with my mother are happy childhood memories. From that time I developed a life long passion for words and reading. More recently I have discovered an intense desire...

Poems to Wear is a wonderful collection - brilliantly conceived, beautifully written. The editors and translators do the rarest of things: they bring the whole world of dress, fashion and its...

A vibrant bilingual collaboration between Australian and Japanese poets which celebrates the connection between the twin cities Canberra and Nara and compares aspects of life in each of the places...

Author: Rees CampbellPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: September 28, 2021Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761091700ISBN-13: 9781761091704

'There's a touch of both Dickinson and Larkin in Jennifer Chrystie's mature exhumation of the tales and tropes of family. Figures who could so easily flit like phantoms in her well honed poetry are...

Dawn Colsey has always loved words and language and graduated BA with Honours in French from Adelaide University. She was a teacher of English and French and student of Latin and Italian over a long...

Themes of deception, betrayal and unexpected delight are woven through Angus Gaunt's first collection of stories. A maiden aunt prepares herself to be evicted from her home, and finds something...

Lively and varied, Melinda Smith's first collection rushes the reader headlong through love, grief, outrage, takoyaki, alienation and football. Melinda's other books include Mapless in Underland and...

'David Kelly has an uncanny ability to dissect the most mundane moments with unexpected bursts of insight. Laced with David's bizarre sense of humour, quartet is a collection of poetry like no other...

'Stay tuned! Nothing prepares you for the shock of a new voice in poetry, and nothing quenches that thirst better than a good dose of poetry. A poetry of place and sensibility can light up a whole...

Do not expect gentle rambles through the countryside. Beatriz Copello takes us on rough treks - through broken worlds, past "sleepwalkers trained to kill", "banquets of horror / tablecloth tinted in...

Author: Martin ChristmasPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: December 03, 2019Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760418161ISBN-13: 9781760418168

Stephen Matthews's initiative in establishing Ginninderra Press has made a significant contribution to contemporary Australian literature, providing welcome opportunities for both emerging and...

Being holed up on an outback sheep station for nearly three years has been one of the best experiences of my life. From the spectacular landscape of the Flinders Ranges to the beauty of the people we...

In this, her fourth book, Barbara Fisher addresses diverse subjects ranging from literature and art to the natural world, traveI, food, family, and narratives of colonial days and the migrant...