Fulfilling a lifelong dream and buying a rural property, the writer is surprised to discover the ...

Chords in the Soundscapes is a full-length collection of nonfiction poetry about sounds and emoti...

In this fresh, open and varied collection, Adrian Lane explores and celebrates life’s reversals a...

Bill Jenkins, who spent his childhood in a small fishing in the north of Scotland, believes that ...

A collection of lively recollections about the author's life in Port Adelaide and travels through...

'The lyrical poems in this anthology invite reader participation and ongoing reflection on themes...

A woman sets out to walk the Camino, the ancient pilgrimage across the north of Spain. No longer ...

'Under a bright Australian sun, the fascinating tale of a European life comes to light. In a sequ...

In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, 'Nobody can be sure they are always right....

Kathleen Miriam Bleakley was born before breakfast. She was delivered by her Grandad - Dr John Ma...

'Judith E. P. Johnson has that crucial characteristic for haiku poets, an ability to notice the m...

Jack Oats (aka Baker) is a man of all trades. Under various pseudonyms, he has been a teacher, or...

A police commander, a parole officer, a matron, a court artist and a mounted police officer - the...

Desire in its multifariously limpid and obscure manifestations is one of the salient themes that ...

'Passant's words are marching songs. They speak for the dispossessed, across Terra Nullius, out o...

Survival, desire, disaster; misadventure, murder and magic combine in this unique collection of t...

Lively and varied, Melinda Smith's first collection rushes the reader headlong through love, grie...

What unites Henri Beyle (who blossoms as Stendhal), the Watcher on the glazed veranda, Leah Lee (...

'It is a gift to take time to notice, and another to bring one's observations into creative verse...

'Courage and inspiration are what you feel when you read these exceptional stories of everyday fa...

How ordinary becomes extraordinary when you empty the cupboard and unravel the jottings. The you ...

Sharon Kernot presents an assortment of short stories that reside and crackle in the tense spaces...

'If each life is a world, what is a world of billions of lives? Sweeping through evolutionary tim...

'The undreamt, unborn horizon, the smack of the ocean beneath this brilliant collection, and in P...

War, as everyone will attest to, is horrific. Yet we continue to indulge in it under the guise of...

When Bill Tully, Stephen Matthews and Ian McFarlane sat down in a Canberra café to consider the i...

The Boy Who Loved the Moon is an exploration of a mother's love. It is a love that transcends wha...

They were all running. Running away from or to something. Something as brutal as rejection, lost ...

This is a true account of my life, an assessment validated by factual events and logical construc...

In The Painted Lady Suzanne Edgar focuses on art, the natural world, the intimacy of love, human ...

'If Cliché is a democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independen...

Nicola Knox was brought up in country Victoria and her work has always been influenced by the lan...

Dear Jenny is a moving story of love between two women friends, expressed in an exchange of phone...

'Williamson's working life poems have a real strength, and as with so much of his work, it really...

Virgilio Goncalves has a nomadic bent. He blames his parents. Both Portuguese, they migrated to S...

'There's a touch of both Dickinson and Larkin in Jennifer Chrystie's mature exhumation of the tal...

An eclectic collection of short stories tackling subjects as varied as psychological mind games, ...

‘Though its title suggests a dark netherworld, the poems in swimming undergroundoffer striking gl...

Murunna Point Revisited is a revised and expanded version of Evening at Murunna Point, first publ...

Cicada Chimes is set over a twenty-four-hour period covering several years in time lapse; it move...

Death wears designer jeans and T-shirt with monogrammed pocket... Peter thinks Prokofiev got it a...

John Blackhawk lived in India and England before migrating to Australia. Previously he worked as ...

Freda Brown was a political activist in the women's, peace, and anti-apartheid movements, both in...

‘What Rosalee Kiely has garnered from American poets – Cohen, Rich – is pure gain. But what this ...

In First Blood, Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize winner Natalie D-Napoleon brings us a collection...

We were enjoying a blissful life, making the most of every day. I, the poet, was still rather bem...

Brenda Saunders is an artist and writer of Aboriginal and British descent. She has read in severa...

Cleaning out the closet is typically a woman's task. It is also a perfect metaphor for the creati...