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Somers Commonwealth Immigration Camp: Memories Of Teaching At Victorian School No. 4653 In 1950Author: Marina LutzPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: June 22, 2021Number of Pages: 56...

'Jacqueline Buswell's first collection of poems is a very solid contribution to contemporary Australian poetry. Hers is a journey with eyes wide open, a well-tuned voice and firm steps into...

It's rare to receive a collection of poems that explore the possibility of rhymes in their form. These poems wear their rhymes lightly, and with grace, as they make their way through moods and...

Vivid memories prompted by hearing a few stray notes playing sent me wandering through my very rich life to renew my love of particular pieces of music and songs. When I started writing poems, I...

In this fresh, open and varied collection, Adrian Lane explores and celebrates life's reversals and paradoxes. The poems travel through the seasons in a range of hemispheres. Adrian Lane is an...

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...

'Under a bright Australian sun, the fascinating tale of a European life comes to light. In a sequence of incisive poems, Belinda Broughton narrates the voice of Ervin Janek - Hungarian artist and...

'Words are magic. I have delighted in them all my life - an early memory is of myself on my swing long before I went to school chanting words aloud, fitting them together into patterns, my mind...

In 'Mount Cargill', a poem in Maurice Whelan's book Excalibur's Return, he described running up Mount Cargill in New Zealand with Richard O'Neill-Dean, to whom that volume was dedicated. Richard...

Mark Willing lives in Melbourne, where he works as a teacher. His poetry has been published in magazines and journals including Verandah, Small Packages, Five Bells, Centoria and Blue Dog. This is...

James Finlay spits a vomitous wreck of black ink at social injustice, conspicuous consumption and inhuman violence. But there's tenderness too - the achingly poignant loss of a young child: 'Not all...

The poet Sylvia Plath wrote in 'Black Rook in Rainy Weather', 'let spotted leaves fall as they fall / without ceremony or portent'. If I think of my stories as leaves, then they are leaves from many...

'Dominic Kirwan's latest collection of poetry, Spreading the Bad Word, is jaw-droppingly delicious, and I say that as someone who does not usually consider myself a fan of the genre. Like a lot of...

As a child, I drove my mother to distraction with my never-ending stream of 'Whys?' I knew I had reached the end of her patience when she answered with 'Why? Because.' My stream of questions has...

Simon Stuart's short stories have appeared in several literary magazines. He lives with his wife in Melbourne, where he teaches and plays the double bass for a living. Stories of Strangers is his...

Jeanell Buckley is a writer of short stories and novels in the area of speculative and historical fiction. She is the winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Academic Excellence (Macquarie...

With this moving free verse arising from his sustained encounter with his wife's cancer, Richard Bell lays bare the intimate reality of loss, from its dark foreshadowing in her fatal diagnosis...

Tony Steven Williams, a Canberra poet, describes his maiden poetry collection Sun and Moon, Light and Dark as 'not unlike our journey through life, where we constantly steer through the contrasting...

Seven stories, six unique settings, many divergent themes and characters. Seventeen-year-old Jacob returns to Bali in 'Surfing for Wayan'. Once terrified of surfboards, he's there to surf wild for...

'Though its title suggests a dark netherworld, the poems in swimming underground offer striking glimpses into the past, present and possible future. Some movingly recall childhood trauma, others...

Rockman's take me for tame introduces us to an emerging poet exploring identity, trauma and chaos. Passionate, confessional and resolute, with her outlook and inclinations laid bare, she seeks the...

I have been writing poetry since I was a child, one who loved reading, including the poetry available for children at that time. As I grew older, my poetry writing became an outlet for a whole range...

Tales from Port Vic & other stories is a collection of imaginative stories with a twist at the end. In the first section are stories from the author's childhood in Port Victoria, stories based on...

When the Campbell family move to the country, eleven-year-old Jane spends all her spare time watching the horses in the paddock next door. Realising they need to do something about her obsession, her...

In her first full-length collection of poetry, Tarla Kramer recounts the final days of her husband's life and her long journey of grief as a mother with four young children.'Tango of the Widow is a...

It is through the creative arts that we can place ourselves inside the experiences of others and feel the many-dimensional nature of humanity. Though poetry may be considered as a 'gentle art', it...

TELLING AUSTRALIA'S TRUTH.Author: NAPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Mar 11, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761096958ISBN-13: 9781761096952

I have known Carolyn Cordon for many years and I'm proud to call her my friend. I have read her stories and watched as her poetry developed. Her poetry journey began in pain and self-examination, yet...

Terra nullius means 'empty land'. It is the title of the first story in this collection, which is related by Hugh Foulkes, bullock driver to Captain Charles Sturt, as the men of the expedition wait...

A collection of short stories by Peter Strawhan, who was born at the 'Old Queen Vic' Maternity Hospital, Rosewater, in 1932. A bleak wartime childhood in a working-class western suburb followed. He...