At the open mic
Humans and others who grab hold of the mic all have attitude, whether they be a four-year-old, a seventy-four-year-old, a koala or a fly. Each has a thing or two…
Out of the Blue
Margaret Zanardo
Chapbook 2022
Life has never been so unpredictable as it is now. Like ocean waves — unrelenting, vast and ferocious, yet sometimes also strangely beautiful — these poems reflect the confronting times…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…