Ginninderra Press

Sit quietly with these poems and you'll come to know how stillness can come alive with blossom, memory, playfulness, birdsong, companionship, prayer, mystery.' - Peter Bishop, Creative Director,...

That week, we went to a kabuki show, stories of wandering souls in search of revenge, or lost love. On my last night in Tokyo my father comes in at a wooden gate, wet with rain... from 'The Wooden...

A woman sets out to walk the Camino, the ancient pilgrimage across the north of Spain. No longer young, she walks alone, leaving family and friends behind. But she also carries them with her, in the...

This PeaceAuthor: Robyn CairnsPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Jun 12, 2020Number of Pages: 60 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760419214ISBN-13: 9781760419219

Everyone has a button story, but plunging into this collection of button poems is full of surprises; amazing fictions lie scattered amongst poignant memories and the everyday made strange. Far from...

'In Threading Raindrops, Michele Fermanis-Winward has fashioned an associative landscape full of the conflicts of the human heart and mind. The reader is buoyed by the honesty and integrity, the...

Three novellas in one volume Always in Denial Denial, justification and revenge dance through this novella, a page-turning story, topical yet as old as mankind, about the shame of sexual abuse. Lies...

Three Obituaries And An Afternoon TeaAuthor: John WatsonPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: July 23, 2021Number of Pages: 58 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The poems in this latest collection by award-winning poet Philip Radmall stand us at the starting point of new experiences and states, and follow the forces and callings that summon us out from where...

This beautifully written memoir by Jenni Heckendorf reveals a woman with firm opinions, a warm sense of family and a keen sense of her own value. She has also lived with cerebral palsy her whole life...

Tilting at Time offers a vivacious yet emphatic rendering of the minutiae of Australian life. At once humorous and reflective, Greg muses on the human condition and its relationship to the specific...

Colleen and I have known each other for many years, in many guises, from school colleagues to collaborators in organising a writing group, and always as friends who share a love of the written word...

George Genovese was born in Malta in 1962 and immigrated to Australia in 1967. In 1985 he graduated from La Trobe University with a major in philosophy. He has since read his poetry at various venues...

Robyn Mathison casts a curious and compassionate eye over the natural world and all its inhabitants. Her sense of wonder gives equal measure to cats, hens, historical figures and family members. The...

To BreatheAuthor: Melanie DuncanPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Jun 24, 2020Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760419338ISBN-13: 9781760419332

Ray Stuart was born in Sydney. His poetry has been published widely over south-east Australia, in the Northern Territory and in Friendly Street collections. In 1999, he won the Satura Prize for 'Duty...

Wendell Watt lives in Sydney. Apart from family, her two loves have been science and writing. She chose science for a secure livelihood but now writing takes top place. Her work has been published in...

Twist and KnotAuthor: Ursula NixonPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: February 25, 2021Number of Pages: 58 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 176109064XISBN-13: 9781761090646

In the title story of this collection, Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious...

Two Green Parrots positions our lives in a broader, ecological context. Anne M. Carson's poems affirm human culture and values in the face of implacable realties. Beauty and suffering are skilfully...

Author: John WatsonPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Aug 07, 2020Number of Pages: 110 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760419648ISBN-13: 9781760419646

Author: Rodney WilliamsPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Nov 05, 2021Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761091956ISBN-13: 9781761091957

Absorbing, empathetic and cerebral all at once. Using ordinary language and often extraordinary turns of phrase, Williams manages to peel back the complex layers of our everyday lives with remarkable...

I hope your images don't come back to haunt me when I'm in the geriatric ward.' - Gwen Harwood. 'Tim Collins writes about immediate response to life's personal issues.' - Tom Shapcott. 'He has a...

In Mark Mahemoff's Urban Gleanings the routine of the urban commute, punctured by fragile incidents and ruminations, is interspersed with poems drumming against mortality, such as the refugees whose...

See, in the places of our lives, in the lands of our childhood, in the rooms with strange laughter and conversation; how we look back upon those simpler days with their self-styled skills and their...

'Carol Patterson deserves much wider recognition for her brilliant mastery of the short story form. Each story immerses the reader in an entirely different, vividly depicted setting with complex and...

Nicola Knox was brought up in country Victoria and her work has always been influenced by the landscapes of childhood, despite living since marrying in Sydney, that most urban of cities. She worked...

Kevin Densley's poetry has been published in various Australian and UK magazines over the past fifteen years, including Quadrant, The Adelaide Review, LiNQ, Muse, New England Review, Vernacular,...

This first book is packed with clear-eyed veracity, offers a shining resilience, personal insight and shared comfort...we are enjoined, a chorus.' - Les Wicks Few poets express the meeting of nature...