Böcker utgivna av Ginninderra Press

Two women. Two poets. Two countries. One man. Therese Corfiatis lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania; Britta Stenberg lives in Rentjarn, Sweden - two women joined in friendship by Tom Langston, who introduced them to each other long distance, during a trip to Sweden. This collaboration is a tribute to his memory. This evocative collection written over the course of a year, from opposite ends of the earth, holds a fervent hope for readers to discover a moment caught in time.

Maryanne Sanders was born in New Zealand, where she lived on a farm. She has travelled widely and has worked in Thailand, London and Scotland, and has been in beautiful Adelaide, Australia, for more than forty years. Maryanne worked with adult migrants and refugees for over thirty years at TAFE in aspects of their settlement in Australia. Taking inspiration from nature and her childhood in rural New Zealand, Maryanne's reflective poetry focuses on women's issues, the sickness and death of close family members, grief, finding courage to go on, life's joys, faraway places and topical issues. She is the mother of two adult children and is a happy grandmother.

In this second collection of poetry by Adrienne Cosgrave, author of I Have Secrets, readers are taken on a journey through the human psyche: from joy to despair and the darkness within.

Grace contains poems of reflection, memories and hope drawn from over a hundred years of a wonderful life. The fullness and diversity of Dorethie Willing's experiences are illustrated through her keen observations of the world around her at various stages of her life.

This is Irene Wilkie's third collection. Here are poems that invite the reader into the natural and human world, to see, hear, touch and empathise. They offer the idea that awareness of life's fragility can be softened by each new dawn.

Elizabeth Heij was born in Tasmania, and educated in New Zealand and the USA. After a career in science research, teaching, and management, she came home to the Arts EcoVillage at Aldinga in South Australia. Beware, she says, of assumptions about your elderly neighbours who came of age in the 1960s and 70s. Their thoughts just might surprise you.

The Saying of Names is the first poetry collection by Karen Blaylock, who lives in the Adelaide Hills. Her finely wrought and closely observed poems will appeal to poetry lovers everywhere.

'Through the noise of a world inundated by too much overwrought overwriting, too many clichés, too many lies, too many adjectives, Rory Harris's deceptively simple, short, imagistic poems ring like clear bells. They always have, but never so tellingly perhaps. Harris has always been concerned with exploring the minutiae of domestic and family love, but grief has given the most recent work an added emotional undertow. He has been one of my favourite poets for many years, a meditative companion for times to quote Keats - when my "eyeballs are vexed and tired", and the answer, then, is to "feast them upon the wideness of the sea" - in this case a a sea of small, but deep, poems.' - Peter Goldsworthy'...sparks of light and small arrows of distress knit together in such seemingly simple shapes.' - Jorie Ryan, Eureka Street'He has a respectful but concise and impartial approach to his characters and writing. The total effect is of attractive sympathy and profound talent in reserve.' - Jennifer Maiden, Sydney Morning Herald

Survival, desire, disaster; misadventure, murder and magic combine in this unique collection of tales set in locations including old rural Australia, present-day cities and the distant mystical past. Twenty-seven short stories from renowned Australian fiction writer and poet Julie Thorndyke will take you on tantalising journeys in the company of artists and musicians, mothers and daughters, writers and lovers. as they make brave, desperate and audacious life choices. Earthquake, flood, fire; stolen babies and lost children; homelessness and betrayal; ghosts, mysteries and dreams - each story follows the journey of a richly imagined character as they act out their unique answer to the question 'What if?' Divertimento offers a chance to step briefly into the shoes of each protagonist and discover how it feels to love, steal, murder...and live to tell the tale.

'Libby Sommer has the true poet's eye for the deeper meaning that can abide beneath the ordinariness and small details of our daily lives and experiences. And she expresses her insights with the genuine poet's careful and precise attention to placing the right word in the right place.' - Barry Spurr, Literary Editor, Quadrant

While most of the characters you'll meet in these pages are far from perfect, and, with all their anxieties, foibles and frailties, a world away from being heroic, they are recognisably human. What they lack in polish or perfection they more than abundantly make up for in inconspicuous generosity and modesty, much too often under-appreciated for the ramifications these quieter graces have on those around them. This is a collection of stories of varying tonalities, spanning an emotional range comprising anything from the gentle 'My Uncle Dom' to the light and playful 'Reversal', the humorous and, at times, outrageously farcical 'Dimblewit' to the absurd, even grotesque 'The Bookworm', and again, the dark and disturbing 'The Visitation'. Two pieces among this collection of seven stories, 'Artist' and 'A Brass Razoo', present us with portraits particularly Australian.

'In this collection, Carolyn Cordon presents social observations and thoughtful utterances in unassuming but crafted language. These pages represent a crucible of poetry: rhyming, blank and free verse, stanza formats, tanka and other paragraphed sections delving into a variety of themes. There are philosophical statements mixed amongst distinctive declarations, and sage advice is put against the inquisitive nature of daily life. Carolyn presents occasional feminism with honest content, 'what ifs' with interesting imagery, and contemporary ponderings presented in an unassuming positivity. There are also smatterings of irreverence to break up streaks of gravity. Carolyn includes an occasional nod of cultural or historical references set against personal commentary, and also balances rhetorical questions against interesting observations. These are musings of a suburban lass gone country with offerings for most people in the population to consider her unique observations from a woman of letters.' - Alex Robertson

This sequence of stories follows the journey of ten people across a sultry Sydney day as a storm builds. Their lives are as varied as the millions who live in this pulsing metropolis. As the storm front hits, these people are on a path to seeing their city and their world in a new way.

What is juggling? For the purposes of this history, juggling is broadly defined as the manipulation of objects. So this book discusses hoop rolling, plate spinning, traditional club and ball juggling, hat juggling and lots of balancing. There are also many discussions of individual jugglers, including international visitors like Cinquevalli and American minstrels like Joseph Jalvan. Australia also produced some incredible jugglers, including amazing circus performers like Marizles Wirth, international superstars like Stan Kavanagh, and local talents like Arnold Jarvis.

Unlike Lyn Drummond's previous book, Where To Go For a Seven-Year Cycle, which mainly focused on her travels from 2003 to 2010 in a specific region (Central and Eastern Europe), this companion covering the years 2011 to 2018 highlights more random locations. Painters, Philosophers and Poets Sustain a Seven-Year Cycle tells stories of how she shared her footprint with the ghosts of famous people who coincidentally lived in the same places as she did, often eras apart from one another. The books' titles are based on philosophical views that seven years of our lives represent a particular cycle. Follow the author's journeys from the bleak reality of war crime trials at The Hague's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to the cobbled charm of Arles, the French city where the Dutch painter Van Gogh flourished. To places as diverse as Vietnam and Ecuador, North Macedonia and Louisiana, the Netherlands and Hungary. Uncovering facts hitherto unknown to her about historic figures such as Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, Albert Einstein, Ho Chi Minh, Alexander the Great, Mata Hari, the last Creole plantation owner, Laura Locoul Gore, and the Hungarian pioneer of Covid-19 vaccines, Dr Katalin Kariko. What she learned from some of the people in this book affected her own perspectives. For example, researching the work of seventeenth-century philosopher Barach Spinoza, who lived near her home in The Hague, resulted in scrutiny of her own beliefs about religion, nature and spirituality. Searching for reasons why Paul Cezanne was so enamoured with Mont Sainte-Victoire, which overlooks the artist's home city of Aix en Provence, triggered strong reactions to compelling landscapes. As well, the book probes the influence American poet Robert Frost had on Edward Thomas, the British poet, essayist and novelist who wrote a poem that struck an evocative chord with a nation on the brink of World War I. This second memoir delves further into the author's quest to achieve individuation, a term often associated with Carl Jung and his psychology. Jung believed individuation - a deep understanding of oneself - answers the question of who we really are beneath our responsibilities and social roles, once we face up to our hidden secrets and make peace with our darkest corners. Daring to be ourselves no matter how different we are from others.

From his desk in Long Jetty on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia, Sean Crawley writes about the everyday suburban lives of people trying to make sense of their relationships with each other and the ever changing world in which they reside. Set upon a stretch of sand between the lake and the ocean, the short stories in this volume are interspersed with blog entries posted in the year leading up to the pandemic of 2020.

'Kathleen brings to her poetry a short story writer's ability to create character. She has an eye for gesture and movement, as well as an ear for the nuances of speech. Her poems are often portraits of interesting people, brought to life through precise images and vocabulary in strong lines that reflect reality in the lives of her characters and the places they inhabit.' - John Egan