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'Some poets have the ability to capture a mood, a feeling, a happening in a few well-chosen words. Pam Cole has been touching my soul for more years than I can remember. She is an astute observer of her surroundings and the people who inhabit her world. This collection of poems takes the reader on an intimate journey through her life. Each page deserves to be consumed in a quiet place, on your own, allowing time to digest the meaning behind the magical words.' - Dale Lorna Jacobsen'Pam Cole's writing has a sensibility which brings out the continuity of life in all its forms, a talent for telling how things were: a country childhood, the poignancy of ageing, the loss of people, absence of children, the joys of grandchildren, landscapes, and dreams, all subtly and movingly told.' - Judy GoldbergPam Cole was born in 1935. She and her husband have lived in many parts of Australia, but now divide the year between their farmlet in Victoria and the New England country of northern NSW.

For me, poetry is observational and emerges from personal experience. This book contains a selection of poems that I have written over the years - a kind of distillation of things I have seen that have moved me, interspersed with poems that I simply like. You may notice that a significant number of the poems are to do with various aspects of the ocean and the coast. That's because I am intimately connected to it; and although my bones are beginning to creak, I still surf and am endlessly fascinated by the changeability of the ocean and the exquisite complexity of the interaction between waves, rocks and sand. I hope you enjoy these poems.

defenestration, n. the act of throwing a person or thing out of a window. - The Random House Dictionary of the English LanguageIndrani Perera - a fresh and exciting voice - explores the passion of contemporary life, love and loss.'…apt and enjoyable image and rhythm…deftly made…' - The Canberra Times

I read once that on its way to the moon Apollo 11 was only on course for about 3% of its journey. But land on the moon it did, as we all know. Live is not linear. It requires constant adjusting. Each one of us experiences hills and valleys, straights and narrows, corners and roundabouts. We all take chances and miss opportunities. What counts at the end of the day is our willingness to reassess our coordinates and make a choice to stay our course. I hope that my poetry empowers you and, in a small way, contributes to navigating the roadmap of your own life.

It's a fact not yet universally acknowledged, that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway, preferably in the company of Captain Cook, Henry Lawson, Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly. Backseat Drivers is a hilarious and biting satire on the intersection and byways of the past, the present and the future.';A most wonderful endeavour' Captain James Cook';Such is strife!' Edward Kelly';I wish I'd written it' Henry Lawson

';Word Fall demonstrates Betty McKenzie-Tubb's love and mastery of language in very accessible poems written in various styles. The book also reveals the poet's wisdom, compassion and her wry, often self-deprecating sense of humour. The collection is arranged in three sections: Loss and Love, With Serious Intent and Froth and Bubble. I was moved to tears, deep contemplation or laughter as I read these poems that have arisen from a rich and well-lived life.' Robyn Mathison';The poems in Word Fall capture Betty McKenzie-Tubb's refreshing and warm hearted style. In a voice both unafraid and elegant, she offers her wit and wisdom with open hands. Curiosity, understanding and insight are crafted into disciplined lines provoking laugher or deep reflections. We travel with the writer as she gleans and gathers stories from each facet of her round and ready life. This precious collection is both moving and uplifting.' Elizabeth Goodsir

';With Orpheus in the Undershirt, Kevin Densley has produced his best book yet: sharp but not cutting, tart but not cynical, the collection weaves lyric, barb and lament into a marvellous, prickly garment that soothes as it stimulates. Don't like small, evocative poems as clear and complex as rockpools? Dive into an eight-page outlaw fistfight roaring with dust and despair. Not interested in ';When Johnstone's Circus Came to Town'? (Though why wouldn't you be, with its ';toupeed ringmaster/in a red lame suit' and aromatic ';strong whiff of manure'?) Explore instead the death of a bantam ';inside the chookhouse/among the warm chooky smells'. Unlike most collections which attempt to blend ';high' and ';low' culture, to find the charge of destiny in the nuts and bolts of the everyday, Orpheus does it effortlessly, without need of gimmicks or creaky, overbearing conceits. Here Kevin Densley fuses the marvels and mundanities of life into a witty, searching collection that sings the subtleties of both.' James Roderick Burns, Other Poetry

';This a stunning late debut, a memorable cache of poems of mature, quiet and numinous power that has waited a lifetime to be written. They draw their inspiration and insights from the deep earth, from the artesian well of time and memory, and map ways of connection with the land, and with the forgotten places within the soul. Poems like ';Driving Inland' and ';Touch and Flow' simply took my breath away, their journeys through brilliantly observed landscapes answering the question that the poems pose so beautifully and heartbreakingly: ';The tiny dash between birth and death / is all we have on this earth. / Where do I go from here?'' Kim Cheng Boey

A Sparrow Splashing is a journey into the heart of the Buddha's teachings. This book of stories and poetry looks at the life of the author through the eyes of three characters: a child named Little Pebble, a young man called the Seeker, and the Teacher, a Buddhist Monk. The reader is invited to reflect and meditate upon the universal search for happiness and the nature of suffering. Along the way, desire, anger, ignorance, jealousy and pride are encountered in various forms. This book explores Buddhism, and spirituality in general, beyond sectarian dogma, pointing the way to perfect wisdom and compassion, the essential nature of all beings.

I want my poetry to say something about the state of our world, this catastrophic social and environmental situation we are bringing on ourselves. So my work is social critique and revolves around dissent, contradiction, dissonance; and I write about gender, violence, war, refugees and asylum, environment and climate change. I am fascinated by the fluidity of gender, of femininities and masculinities. One of my favourite texts is Orlando by Virginia Woolf and it is full of the poetry of gender.

'Jane Williams's first collection of haiku delights with all the insight and generosity that her readers admire in her longer works of poetry. In distillations that are alive to the small and fleeting moments of life and the echoes they ring in the heart, Echoes of Flight is joyous and life-affirming and a welcome addition to Australian haiku literature.' - Lyn Reeves, Vice President, Australian Haiku Society'Echoes of Flight is a wonderful treasure box of haiku moments experienced through finely tuned poetic senses. These moments are captured in crisp detail, displaying a profound reverence for the world in which the poet so keenly observes. We are richer for seeing things as Jane Williams does.' - Ron C. Moss, author of the award-winning haiku collection The Bone Carver

In the 1990s, Julia Honeychurch moves to Canberra with her new husband Brian to take up a position at a school for troubled children. When the marriage sours, Julia learns that, in Canberra, it's difficult to keep secrets. She's fallen in love with Kate Selby, a university lecturer and consultant at Julia's school. Kate and Julia's clandestine meetings take her away from the family and arouse Brian's suspicions. When twelve-year-old Rose Cavanaugh joins her special unit, Julia clashes with Rose's abusive stepfather Lee over his treatment of Rose and Rose's mother. Animosity spirals into dangerous territory, imperils Kate and Julia's secret life, and brings a night of murder to the city.

Poems collected from All the Time Left, Laughing in the Street and The Question, the Answer a smorgasbord of thoughts and ideas ranging from sardines, crayfish in pots, the Blarney stone, a Degas painting, blowflies and wild things to Cicero and the dustman, reflecting Nance Cookson's wry take on life.

';Gabe Journey Jones's poetry uniquely combines words and rhythm into recipes for healing, conversing and connecting with ourselves and one another. Her libretti are astute, set to bars, accents, BPM (beats per minute) and broken-up beats; they pulsate like the sanctuary of a mother's heartbeat and become Spoken Medicine.' Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, Director, South Coast Writers Centre, writer and facilitatorPassionate, percussive poetry written for performance that slams complacency and oppression with urgency and compassion. She's a priestess, exhilarating incantations heard accompanied by her drumming, divines the hidden and can heal a sick society. This is a magical potion.' Jenni Nixon, poet, writer and mentorGabrielle's collection of poetry is dazzling in its scope and intensity. The medicine gets to all the neglected parts of ourselves. Readers are in for a thought-provoking treat. It is wonderful that the world of spoken word is graced by a poet of such fierce integrity and poetic vitality.' Wilfred C. Roach, poet, writer and performerI love nothing more than a fierce woman unafraid to speak loud truths, a counter voice to the dominant narratives which are not necessarily the real narratives. Gabe is all of that and more. This collection will certainly light a fire in your belly and spark something in your heart.' Candy Royalle, artivist, writer, poet, storyteller and performance artist

Ladies, a plate please charts the life of Elizabeth Macguire, from childhood to middle age, in her quest for identity and selfhood. Activist, lover, sister, friend, Elizabeth follows her own rebellious star, beginning in rural sixties Australia in a family fractured by a child's death and the damaging silence of unexpressed grief. Her journey takes her through youthful romances to a complex and volatile relationship with Sarah, who seeks to reconcile her own family history of loss in a way which inevitably conflicts with Elizabeth's desire for autonomy. Wry, evocative and humorous, Ladies, a plate please is about struggle, change and the secrets people keep, from themselves and each other.