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Composed during Covid-19, these poems reveal the fragility of life and the strength of love in dark times. The poet finds solace in the little things of life: a cup of coffee with a friend, a walk by...

Ripples - 9781760418984Author: Hills PoetsPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Apr 30, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760418986ISBN-13:...

Firmly rooted in the past, these poems branch out from Old English and traditional ballads to the language of televised archeology and the travel guide, twisting from folk song to fairy tale to cafE...

Sacredly ProfaneAuthor: Kevin DensleyPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Dec 07, 2020Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761090321ISBN-13: 9781761090325

In his first collection of verse, poet James Milenkovic offers a fresh vision of the Australian landscape and its people, both ancient and modern. Under his pen, the land assumes a dreamy, ambiguous...

Who would you choose: your lover or your sister? This is the dilemma Jen confronts in this intriguing verse novel, which lyrically and unpredictably interweaves storytelling and poetry. 'Saving Ginia...

Pam Schindler's say, a river proves the best poems don't have to shout. There is so much light in the brushstrokes of this painterly collection, in which Schindler washes private moments of grief and...

Mark Miller was born in Warren in western New South Wales. He attended school in Orange before graduating with an Honours degree in English Literature at the University ofNew England in Armidale. His...

Many of Schubert's six hundred songs were composed quickly, and often in the midst of of a gathering of friends loudly revelling or performing other music. Sometimes that remarkable facility would be...

Rebellious teenager Phillip is sent to live with Kate, who raised him as a child when his mother Venice was in thrall to heroin. Set in coastal Victoria and then in Paris, Sea Pictures charts...

He is just one of many in the refugee camp: an old man, his wife dead, compelled to revisit the past. Unfortunately, what he finds is what he had known all along. It is the only story there is, ever...

Elaine Barker analyses the natural world, the home and places beyond; not with the eye of the detached onlooker but compassionately inhabiting the minds of fellow travellers, from the tough tattooed...

John Malone's lively and quirky imagination produces widely appealing poetry. The poems in Seeing Things are keenly observed, accessible and often humorous or whimsical. How fortunate we are that one...

Author: Barbara GurneyPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Dec 03, 2020Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761090291ISBN-13: 9781761090295

Author: Stephen AlomesPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761090003ISBN-13: 9781761090004

Shards of Ice is about Antarctica, the death of a beloved husband and grief. Written in fragments, Shards of Ice interweaves experiences of the author's trips to Antarctica - the first was soon after...

Author: Randwick Writers' GroupPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Mar 26, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760418900ISBN-13: 9781760418908

Short & Sometimes SweetAuthor: Mary JenkinsPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Jul 06, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760419419ISBN-13:...

This collection is made up of occasional verse, which is to say poems written only occasionally. They make no claim on merit as 'high art' from someone centrally engaged in questions of literary...

During a two-day respite in World War I in France, destiny entangles the lives of three young men: Patrick, who is Anglo-Irish, and Harry, an Australian, accidentally meet Karl, an enemy soldier...

The poems in Signs of a Poetic Life have been randomly selected from those written between 2014 and 2016. Most of the poems have arisen from associations between memories and emotions. But a few...

In Simply, Little Poems, John O'Connell celebrates, in lucid and finely wrought language, the wonder and beauty in everyday things. Simply, Little Poems is a book to be treasured and shared.Author:...

This is a collection of short stories for people who like a good yarn a story they can finish in one go, without having to mark the page and come back to a few days later, only to realise that they...

Kathy Abrahams was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, and then moved to Busselton in the south-west of the state, about three hours from Perth. She is a member of the Society of Women Writers WA...

Michael Thorley's poetry combines wit and emotional depth. His ability to handle both traditional and free verse forms is subtle but very impressive and his range is broad and deep.' - Suzanne Edgar...

The concept for this book grew while I was commuting between Sydney and the NSW Central Coast, camera and journal close at hand. Misty reflections and images of the countryside, as in the cover...

Small CosmosAuthor: Mary BlackwoodPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Mar 10, 2022Number of Pages: 56 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761092596ISBN-13: 9781761092596

Spending time in nature and with grandchildren, we are able to observe the smaller things in life - the opportunity to observe nature, enjoy holidays and watch little people enjoy their surroundings...

In the first of these linked stories, Smithy's cupboard has always been his refuge despite its different locations and uses. It serves him well in his childhood days on the Wimmera area broad-acre...

Stephen Smithyman is the son of New Zealand poets, Kendrick Smithyman and Mary Stanley. He studied at La Trobe University and the Victorian College of the Arts, and taught for many years in the outer...