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Black McIntosh to Gold
$15.00 (GST-inc)An exquisitely detailed portrayal of settlement Australia in the 1800s, Black McIntosh to Gold spans a century as it traces a family’s migration from a fishing village in the far north of Scotland to the goldfields of New South Wales.
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Days Like These
$12.00 (GST-inc)From early poems re-imagining Bible stories to new work influenced by her travels through Asia, award-winning poet Jane Williams’ keen interest in the connections between people pervades.
Days Like These offers readers familiar with her work a treasured collation and to those coming to it for the first time a tantalising introduction.
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Death and the Motorway
$12.00 (GST-inc)A long-awaited collection from the much-admired editor of the fourW anthologies, Death and the Motorway traverses intimate and intellectual ground here and abroad with surety and insight.
Several poems deal with David’s experiences of life in Japan and the tensions between a busy academic life and the urge to create poetry.
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Furniture Is Disappearing
$13.00 (GST-inc)Starkly unaware of herself and struggling to make the passage from child to adult, the narrator in this collection points the finger, repeatedly exposes her heart and wonders why things just never seem to work out. Join her flirtations with strangers, intoxicating relationships and explorations to the edge of the void.
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Into the World’s Light
$12.00 (GST-inc)This collection explores a wide range of human experiences with understanding and insight. A poem like “Photon” injects the world of particle physics with a human sensibility, while a classically referenced poem such as “Penelope At Dinner” casts a contemporary, if satirical eye, on marriage. Sometimes, in poems such as “No One Told Me I Had A Twin”, a wry humor is present.
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No Matter Who We’re With
$8.00 (GST-inc)A reassuring story about the lives of two children whose parents are separated. Even though their parents live apart, the children are certain of one thing: they are always loved. This story helps children come to terms with the separation of their parents, and shows the unconditional love and security children can feel with each parent, no matter where they live.
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The Smallest Carbon Footprint in the Land & other eco-tales
$9.00 (GST-inc)In this delightful collection of organically-grown eco-tales, a prince wants to marry the girl with the smallest carbon footprint in the land; Space Cadet Lox finds out why a planet is like a bowl of porridge; a girl in a little green hoodie tries to save an endangered wolf; and Chicken Licken warns the sea is rising. Times have changed in Fairytale Land!
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What Can Be Proven
$25.00 (GST-inc)What Can Be Proven, and yet reading it is like returning to familiar things that we have forgotten. O’Flynn has an elevated poetic voice, but also the capacity for revealing familiar things in a strange new light.
