Ginninderra Press

Bernadette Anderson's voice is no longer hidden but released in these poems. Many are grounded in the theatre of everyday life. From her coffee comfort zone she observes other people and imagines...

"Poems in Neon Moons reflect lives that rise above deprivation and suffering, that find joy in their surroundings. Angela Johnson has a well-developed instinct for the transcendent moment and the...

Cynthia Sidney Hallam grew up in Lismore in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales. Her poems, short stories and articles have appeared in magazines and anthologies. Her poems have been read...

One of the rarely discussed aspects of the experience of soldiers in the First World War was the refusal to take prisoners during battle and in some cases the killing of prisoners in the front line...

No Salami Fairy Bread is an invitation to open each page of a new life, full of uncertainty and tenacity due to her family's decision to leave Argentina. Copello writes from her eyes and heart as an...

Author: Robyn BlackPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Oct 04, 2021Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1761091778ISBN-13: 9781761091773

The stories of Not Another Nun Story recount some of the more human side of life in a convent in the 1960s. Before Vatican II, convent life was rather like that depicted in Audrey Hepburn's film A...

The essays in this volume originally appeared over a period of some years in Voice magazine. All were published well before the global financial turmoil of October 2008, to which all are linked...

Not Forgotten is the story of Mick Mack, a reluctant soldier who went to World War I as a stretcher bearer. He entered the war late, a few months before the catastrophic underground explosions in the...

Not Looking For SignsAuthor: Belinda BroughtonPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: February 16, 2020Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760418625ISBN-13:...

Robin Sinclair lives in the Adelaide Hills, a region not unlike the north-west coast of Tasmania where she grew up. Her haiku, poems and paintings record what she observes and loves. In the second...

Author: Joanna Van KoolPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: Sep 04, 2020Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760419842ISBN-13: 9781760419844

Pat Lee's poetry often reflects her respect and reverence for the things of the natural world. She has an artist's eye for landscape and a Wordsworthian ability to paint it in lyric poetry. Many of...

ObliquityAuthor: Roland LeachPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: October 14, 2019Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1760417963ISBN-13: 9781760417963

When Bill Tully, Stephen Matthews and Ian McFarlane sat down in a Canberra caf? to consider the idea of co-editing a quarterly journal of comment and review, they were seeking to increase the...

Susan Garman's debut collection is a delight. A genuine poetic sensibility, Garman sees beyond the ordinary, the seemingly mundane, to find - to use William Blake's words - "eternity in a grain of...

Ashley Capes is a poet, novelist and teacher living in Victoria. He teaches Media and Music Production, and has played in a metal band. He has worked in an art gallery and music retail. Aside from...

Fran Graham is a Tasmanian poet now living in WA. She completed a Bachelor of Arts from Griffith University in 2009 and spent much of 2010 volunteering with the Activ Foundation providing recreation...

Adrian Flavell lives and writes in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. He has written scripts for children's television and environmental education material for the Keep Australia Beautiful Council...

Author: Susan-Gaye AndersonPublisher: Ginninderra PressPublication Date: February 04, 2020Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 176041851XISBN-13: 9781760418519

Something is killing the sheep on Epsom Downs. With her father sprawled on the sofa in an alcoholic haze, Lizzie Epsom and her siblings set out in the family ute armed with guns and spotlight to save...

'John Sabine writes with the authority and gentle humour of experience. As I savoured this collection of his poetry, I felt like a child at the knee of a venerable grandfather, listening, absorbing...

One thing we can be sure of in life is that nothing will stay the same. But is that all we can count on? Featuring poems from an intense period of change, this collection explores what remains the...

True to the grandmasters of times now past (like Issa), rather than projecting herself onto her subjects, Judith E.P. Johnson allows her subjects to breathe new life through her haiku and senryu...

Cynthia Sidney Hallam grew up in Lismore and now lives in the Blue Mountains. Her short stories, poems and articles have appeared in magazines and anthologies, and her poems have been performed on...

If ClichE is a democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the cross-benches. He's been warned by the Speaker.' - Mike Ladd...

With Orpheus in the Undershirt, Kevin Densley has produced his best book yet: sharp but not cutting, tart but not cynical, the collection weaves lyric, barb and lament into a marvellous, prickly...

Is Oskar a child genius or a mad-scientist-in-waiting? His idea of a pet might not be the best choice, but in the end it's Oskar's inventiveness that saves the day, if not the world! Oskar Saves the...

Oliver Freeman invites readers to share the emotional and intellectual journey he has made as a poet from small beginnings when he was a child in London to his adult reflections on love, life, family...

The smirks on their faces and that rubbish-bin needle. Her eyes and nose streaming tears and gunk, and that sleazebag's hands all over her. So give him what he wanted after what he and his mongrel...