Author and first place winner of the CIBA award for Journalistic Non-Fiction 2021 Dr. Kate Dolan, shows readers a unique and valuable insight in her book Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: A Women’s Clinic. We had the opportunity to interview her and find out more regarding the topics addressed in this award-winning publication. Q: Since […]
Co-authors and father daughter duo Constantine Pakavakis and Simone Pakavakis created Earthrunner and the War of Water, a great entwining and thought-provoking story of family, war, peace and resolve. How did they do it you may ask? And what were the ups and downs of collaborative composition? Fear not, we asked for you! Q: Was […]
Come journey with us as we interview and discover more about Jeremy Roberts, the avid performance poet, traveller, and the author behind The Dark Cracks of Kemang. Q: What was the most surprising difference you found between writing poetry and writing The Dark Cracks of Kemang, a full-fledged memoir? A: The original intention was to construct a text halfway […]
After travelling down such a long road to finally finishing More Lies, we wanted to pick Richard James Allen’s brain. So we interviewed him… Q: Give us a snapshot of your writing process More Lies was inspired by living the life of an artist in an East Village tenement walk-up in New York City in […]
We interviewed Staying Whole While Falling Apart‘s author James Gering to find out how he stays whole while falling apart and more! Q: Your main protagonist is a character called Aaron Auslander but it’s hard to look past the parallels… are any of these poems based on your own experience? A: Many poems, yes – […]
With her recent release of Never Good at Maths, we wanted to know more about Kate Maxwell beyond her inability to do maths…so we interviewed her. Q: Your book doesn’t actually explore math. How and why did you choose to title it the way you did? A: There’s some truth in the title that maths […]
With so many views on belief and doubt, we interviewed Paul Scully to get a better insight on navigating the philosophical discussions, as explored in his poems in The Fickle Pendulum. Q: What motivated you to explore belief and doubt, and the way we view them? A: I attempted to Australianise The Conference of the […]
Elisabeth Hanscombe’s 2017 memoir The Art of Disappearing is a challenging and disturbing read on the subject of child abuse from the perspective of a psychoanalyst looking back on her childhood. It’s no less challenging for others in the discipline who might question the validity and objectivity of writing this as a memoir. Christine Vickers’ review […]
In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, job security has become a key issue for many people. Some jobs, in industries dependent on international tourists, are particular vulnerable, and as the pandemic continues businesses may disappear or be drastically scaled back. Being flexible, and having the ability to adapt to a “new normal” in the economy, is […]
Here’s the video of Michael Cohen’s second book with IP, And Other Essays, being launched on Zoom. More info: https://bit.ly/3057Iiz Buy Now: https://bit.ly/2X0FmEe Before we launched And Other Essays on Zoom, we sat down with Michael to ask him some questions about the book. Why choose the essay form? History and inclination, I’d say. I spent quite […]
