Ginninderra Press

This collection covers periods in Prithvindra Chakravarti's life and the reflections and insights he gained into the life of the village-dwelling peasants, artisans and entertainers in West Bengal,...

A Man of Emails follows on from Michael Byrne's previous collection Southbound. Again, there is the balance between his painterly imagism and his quirky use of traditional form. With technical flair...

Mapless in Underland brings more of Melinda Smith's fresh, surprising poems, deliberately accessible yet intensely thought-provoking. Praise for the poem 'Bride and Best Man discuss arrangements',...

Mark d'Arbon is a retired academic who has spent the greater part of his adult life teaching in a wide range of settings, including a couple of years in Papua New Guinea. He has been writing poetry...

Betty McKenzie-Tubb has been scribbling since youth, beginning with contributions to the Sydney Morning Herald and to the ABC radio programme The Argonauts. She was Ancona 49 and wrote regularly to...

Born in Germany, Margitta Acker came to Australia in June 1962. Five weeks later, she was married at St Peter's Lutheran Church in Reid. For her, it was a wedding among strangers. Her memories of...

Metrognomic TalesAuthor: Betty McKenzie-TubbPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Nov 19, 2020Number of Pages: 52 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761090232ISBN-13:...

Midnight Radio explores the complex landscape of intimate attachments, offering nuanced, original perspectives on the ambiguities that pervade them. The collection reflects a clear-eyed intelligence...

Orphaned at four, growing up at a time when the stigma of illegitimacy was lifelong, divorce scandalous, and cruelty in the home left to take its course, my mother confessed her shameful origins to...

A number of the works in this collection centre on the notion of 'the journey'. In all instances, it is ultimately an inner personal one, psychic or spiritual in nature in accordance with whatever...

It was during the Sui Dynasty (AD 581-601) that China first introduced tea to Japan, but the gentle art of tea drinking did not fully take root until the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1127-1279) when a...

Anthony Mills is a master of the metaphor who is also blessed with a musician's ear. His poems are often powerfully elegiac in tone, subtly suffused with a quiet grieving that always finds the...

In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter, but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something...

'Gillian Telford's poems deliver what the title of her collection suggests. Always mindful, often subtle in their argument and surprising in their intensity, these poems display a range of moods,...

Through her poetry in Moonbeams in the Bitter Rain Jayne Linke invites understanding of what it is to come through harsh and life-changing events. Crisp, raw and achingly honest, her writing at times...

Charged with vivid imagery and distilled emotion, J V Birch's poems carry us across the globe, swerving between touching intimacies and crackling insight as she skilfully unfolds the emotional...

Every mother has a story, a story that is worth the telling. These are stories of courage, grit and determination. Stories that give insight into the different lives of others - so that's what it's...

Can you imagine a world without music? We shape sounds into words, yet sound itself gives us the means to escape the bondage of words. We try to convey the essence of beauty in its most intense and...

The Bucket List is an introspective expedition into growing up in the Sunshine State of Queensland, Australia. Deborah Tanzer's recollections are offered through verse, every word delicately chosen...

Roland Leach's poems explore the elusive link between the self and memory, our fragile landscape and its human connections in lucid and often moving language that sustains a delicate balance between...

After the late 20th century emergence of the internet and digitisation, the global speedup has continued, with growing everyday angst. Wars, social media, neoliberal job insecurity, rising costs and...

A spacious walking meditation on place by an attentive and courageously permeable writer who has come to love this island as intensely as those of us bound to it by birth and ancestry and who has...

There is a gentle thread running through this book of short poems which takes us homeward bound on a journey of self-reflection with the poet. I've come to know Stella through her cherita poems, many...

Jane Williams's poems are inventive and the fun is infectious. A bag full of goodies and a delight to the ear.' - Harry Laing, author of Shoctopus 'In these poems, a whole heap of relatives and...

My Shout is a collection of poems reaching back to the 1970s and extending almost to the present. The author's interest in, and obsession with, the use of words began at Elizabeth Vale Primary...

This insightful book is a rare glimpse into the world of autism. It tells of one man's struggle against all the odds, in a fearful and confusing world - his aspirations, his yearning for acceptance...

Set in urban contemporary Sydney, My Year With Sammy is the complex and poetic story of a memorable child. 'Parenting and grand-parenting are joumeys without a compass. In My Year with Sammy, Libby...

Sarah Tiffen's second collection continues to probe the spiritual and social themes revealed in her first book, Learning Country. Stories of her home country, in the western plains of New South...

Nature's CacheAuthor: Jayne LinkePublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Mar 18, 2020Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760418773ISBN-13: 9781760418779

Traverse landscapes, ride in a race, cut skylines and paste metaphors on your lips. Melinda Jane's poetical words are as refreshing as a steaming cup. Sip, hold, taste, read these verses in this...