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Hidden in deep grass, beyond the line of the distant ridge, half-remembered hopes fall prey to savage chance and lie broken or, finding fresh earth, rise again with tender growth. The stories of Wheelbarrow Ridge are each a landscape, populated …
It is a gift to take time to notice, and another to bring ones observations into creative verse. John Egan does both with craft and conciseness. He peacefully explores his world in all its potential and limitations. It is this …
'With sharp satire and fierce feminism, Pamela Burtons years of legal practice are put to devastating use in this interrogation of a murder mystery, and the rollicking incompetence of ASIO super sleuths. The stench of rot from Operation Fishnet and …
The sixteen short stories in Rock and Sea span an extraordinary range of mood and style. There are tales of tragedy, of mischief, of mystery and of gothic horror. Rock and Sea contains stories written by Jeanell Buckley over more …
Ginninderra Press
Bill Jenkins, who spent his childhood in a small fishing in the north of Scotland, believes that the every day life of human beings is fascinating and he continues as a poetic explorer to search for gems in his own …
V8 takes you on a journey in every form of vehicle, from the car to the bicycle, the ute to the train. Two poets reflect on their love of cars, the issues that arise from transport, and the many roads …
Ginninderra Press
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 her children only when she was …
In the first of these linked stories, Smithy's cupboard has always been his refuge despite its different locations and uses. It serves him well in his childhood days on the Wimmera area broad-acre farm in Victoria where he was born …
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with poems by Andrew Mackirdy
Ginninderra Press
Andrew lived quietly in a small town in North-East England with his 90-year-old mother. The money from his Incapacity Benefit paid for their food, his mother paid for the heating from her Age Pension and they got by. He did …
Harnett Lane is Joshua Merten's debut collection of poetry, which speaks to a newfound intimacy with a city, grotesque and quietly vibrant. This distinctly contemporary portrait of Sydney distils a fragmented relationship with place. The work is strongly rooted in …
A Gradual Grace is Christina's third memoir. In the first, This Place You Know, she tells the story of her childhood on an outback sheep station, told in her mother's voice and her own voice and published by Ginninderra Press …
'In this dusty rear-view mirror: 55 poems is a travelogue of the soul - anchored by a unifying voice that is authentic, reassuring yet searching. In its scope it draws from a youth spent in the rolling hills (and sometimes …
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haiku & senryu
'A Christmas Posy is a wonderful collection of haiku. A longing for Christmas is in these pages. We all have our own Christmas memories; the only difference is that it is summer and a kookaburra is laughing as in the …
They were all running. Running away from or to something. Something as brutal as rejection, lost love or perhaps obsession. For some it was a matter of running out of time, knowledge, faith or self-belief. But for all, the tender, …
Tango is a dance of passion. It draws partners into an intimate relationship. Sofia loves to tango but, as she dances, she is confronted by societys infatuation with the young and the beautiful. In the painful aftermath of a brief …
This book takes readers across continents, featuring photographs of the enslavement trail in African and Latin communities. It highlights the blending of cultures of Black and Brown people and the acceptance and embrace of the many contributions that have come …
John Avery was aged twenty-four with a wife and young child when he was arrested for stealing a grey mare, his death sentence commuted to life transportation. After twenty years in Van Diemen's Land he was charged with sheep stealing …
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Navigating the Complexities of ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety with Love
Marnie's story in Embrace is an honest and raw portrayal of a mother's quest to understand and support her son Andy, who lives with ADHD, autism, and anxiety, which develops into a deep depression as he reaches his teens. In …
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 others who have had similar experiences. …
Reflections on love, loss and the play of poetic imagination recur in this collection. In one of the two free verse works, The Passing Poem, these unite. This poem was something I felt compelled to write after attending the funerals …
A collection of stories emanating from the experience of growing up, living and working in Australias third metropolis. Denying the Faith and This Clown record the fearful impressions of a childhood spent in Irish Catholic suburbia, reflected upon later in …
"Unfolding Skies" invites readers on an ethereal journey through the vast landscapes of human emotion and experience. Each poem serves as a delicate thread, weaving together the intricacies of love, loss, and hope against the backdrop of a limitless sky. …
Courage and inspiration are what you feel when you read these exceptional stories of everyday families coping with what life has dealt them. The harsh reality of organ and tissue donation is that we are dealing with life and death. …
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Poems for the Age of Fallibility
These days many individual collections of poetry (and some anthologies as well) are presented in language which all too often, offers the particular experiences of the poets as if they were clues in a cryptic crossword. If we could only …
"The impressive debut of author Weald ... Throughout, one finds the efforts of a serious literary novelist lavished on material that otherwise would fuel scores of sci-fi potboiler paperbacks and Japanese anime ... Lengthy, immersive cyber-SF that puts fresh life …
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