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Borrowed Riches : 100 tanka

Julie Thorndyke

Paperback 2022

Borrowed Riches is an apt title for this fine collection of 100 short lyrics composed by an experienced and skilful poet. With her deft usage of the traditional Japanese tanka…

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Some Days The Bird

Heather Bourbeau & Anne Casey

Paperback 2022

Throughout 2021, as COVID and climate change battled for supremacy in the hearts and minds of the world, American poet Heather Bourbeau and Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey engaged in a…

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Not Plain Sailing

Lesley Brydon helped make history as a member of the first all-girl crew to sail the Sydney to Hobart Race in1975 in the 35-foot sloop Barbarian. Her memoir, Not Plain…

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The Poker Protocol

Anne Maria Nicholson

Paperback 2022

Life in a seaside suburb on Sydney Harbour appears idyllic from the outside, but cracks are appearing in the lives of five well-heeled but mismatched friends. Brought together by Kristen…

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Relatively True

Sharon Rundle

Paperback 2022

Relatively True, Stories of Truth, Deception, Post-Truth from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia Edited by Meenakshi Bharat & Sharon Rundle Orient BlackSwan, India, 2022 Relatively True is a vibrant collection of…

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See You at Randell's

Co-authored by Anne Stephenson and Jenny Brosnan this book, recently launched by Mayor Michael Regan, is a lively local history of The Randell School of Dance which stood from 1957…

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Wrestling with Bees

Evocative and playful by turn, Natalie Cooke’s first collection of poetry is preoccupied by Australian landscapes, what we look at in them and what we don’t. A diverse range of…

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Anamnesis

Denise O’Hagan

Paperback 2022

Finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Award (Poetry category) 2023 True to its title, the poems in Denise O’Hagan’s second poetry collection, Anamnesis, allude to a world hovering at the edges of…

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Fijian Shadows

Valerie Clifford

Paperback 2021

Fijian Shadows. Living through the coup of 2000. Fiji, despite its image of calm blue waters, white sandy beaches, clear sunny skies, palm trees softly swaying in the breeze and…

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