Ginninderra Press

A rich and evocative collection from the author of the acclaimed novel Boat People.Author: Maurice WhelanPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2017Number of Pages: 58 pagesLanguage:...

'Another delightful collection of poems from John Egan. What graphic pictures he draws - one has a sense of actually being there. He is able to lead the reader into realms of imagination where the...

A care worker's unwise interest in a dementia client leads him into a dark labyrinth. A man intent on suicide happens on his doppelganger. An abandoned woman wonders whether her lover's crime might...

In 1755, the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake and the resulting tsunamis, and by fire. Perhaps 90,000 people died and 85% of buildings were shattered,...

The Man who Loved Books & Other StoriesAuthor: Brian SmithPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Oct 10, 2024Number of Pages: 129 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Tess has lived in many cities until the hills and the sea called...this is where you belong. Her poems reflect the people she has met, the places she has lived in and the memories of her wanderings...

The Medicine Wheel turns through each of the eight sections in this collection, with the poems gathered into each part touching on many subjects: nature poems running through the seasons, personality...

The bulk of this collection is devoted to the achievements of two pioneers, Joshua Slocum and Percy Fawcett. Captain Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone - between 1892 and 1895...

I want my poetry to say something about the state of our world, this catastrophic social and environmental situation we are bringing on ourselves. So my work is social critique and revolves around...

In The Painted Lady Suzanne Edgar focuses on art, the natural world, the intimacy of love, human caprice. These poems will stop you in your tracks with the force of their emotional intensity. '...a...

This collection is a meditation on the garden that is my woodland sanctuary at the top of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Perched on the side of a ridge, it is sheltered by tall silver-top...

'The majority of poems in The Persistence of History describe Graeme Hetherington's engagement with David Keeling's paintings. As a form of ekphrasis, Hetherington's responses to Keeling's art are...

Fulfilling a lifelong dream and buying a rural property, the writer is surprised to discover the farm becomes a rich source of poetic inspiration. This collection is the outcome of over three decades...

In this sequence of poems, accomplished poet Richard Bell pays homage to his wife of many years, who died of cancer. In doing so, he explores the process of grieving, finding it to be inseparable...

Edgar Williams grows up in Geelong, Victoria, in comfortable surrounds. His education at a private college enables him to enter the prestigious Australian Naval Academy. He graduates with flying...

Edgar Williams is lost after the tragic death of his wife Jackie and can't find a way to shake off the black dog. Therapy doesn't help. His spiritual son Joe suggests leaving it to God. However, he...

It's the details of a thing...what eye love about Gabe's poetry. The depth in the beauty of a moment slowed way down... Eye enter her words and the legs of my mind and heart slow to stroll as eye am...

The Ruby Red'S AffairAuthor: Sandra RenewPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Mar 16, 2022Number of Pages: 54 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761092650ISBN-13: 9781761092657

Collins's work has clarity and insight, demonstrates a skilful turn of phrase and covers considerable ground with swiftness and precision. It values analysis but is also animated by strong currents...

The Saying of Names is the first poetry collection by Karen Blaylock, who lives in the Adelaide Hills. Her finely wrought and closely observed poems will appeal to poetry lovers everywhere.Author:...

Here you have fundamental poetry about water, earth, air and even fire. Jeannie Lawson has a keen eye for nature in all its guises. She has an admirable sense of detail and a rare sense of the...

Everyone has a story. It would be foolish indeed to make comparisons, for there is always someone better or worse off than oneself. However, there is a comforting and healing sense of kinship with...

Author: Brenda SaundersPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Jul 24, 2017Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1740277996ISBN-13: 9781740277990

Author: Fraser MacKayPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Jun 23, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 176041932XISBN-13: 9781760419325

The Sun Behind the Sun covers a great diversity of subjects, moods, and scenes, with four distinct threads interweaving their way through the collection. Journeys, the nature of time, the four...

Michele Fermanis-Winward lives close to the summit of the World Heritage Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, on Darug and Gundungurra Land. With a long career as a visual artist, she...

The Tiger in the Vineyard is a collection shaped by wide personal experience of pressing social issues. The poems reflect a commitment to verse that is lucid, structured, accessible and vivid and...

In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, 'Nobody can be sure they are always right.' Maureen O'Shaughnessy's The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of...

An ambitious lawyer confronts his ideals and his Greek heritage when seeking promotion in an establishment firm in the early '80s. An introverted TAFE lecturer grabs a surprising way out of her tidy...

Set at an abandoned bore-hole in South's Australia's Nullarbor plain, this epic poem in four parts, sparse as the plain itself, offers its vast and solitudinous explanation of Australia. Tim Metcalf...