Twenty Days by Twenty
I've known for some time Marcus Breen is a person of many talents, and the artistic expressions within these covers attests to yet another area of exceptional virtuosity. Twenty Days by Twenty is a tour de force in a diminutive package, one embodying striking versification and storytelling, Here Breen gives us a poignant portrait of the travails and triumphs informing his days in the far off southern hemisphere--his native soil--and we feel privileged he has chosen to share them with us, because we come away with enhanced insight into our own stress points and jubilations. Long after reading Twenty Days by Twenty, it continues to occupy my consciousness. That has to be of significance. Highly recommended. - Michael C. Keith, author of Insomnia 11 and Stories in the Key of Me.
Just Storytellers
Just Storytellers gathers the poetic works of Brendan Bonsack into one extensive edition, including past favorites, and brand new writings from the year of COVID, 2020. Brendan Bonsack is a poet, broadcaster, photographer and filmmaker. His written work appears in print and online, and has been featured in Australian and European festivals, including the Melbourne Writers Festival and White Night, and the UNESCO Poems on the Walls project in Poland. His poetry is included in the audio journal, Audacious II, and on film at Moving Poems, Poetry+Video International touring festival, and The Visible Poetry Project. Brendan makes regular appearances at local spoken word events and was runner up in the 2015 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. He has produced over 12 books of poetry, including a collaborative work with poets from coastal Australia and the USA. His work has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Rochford Street Review, Pitt Street Poetry and The Guardian. He has been anthologized by Pankhurst Press in the UK, and by the Australian Blank Rune Press. Brendan is co-producer and presenter on Melbourne community radio 3CR, for weekly arts program Spoken Word. Brendan's work is available online at www.brendanbonsack.com
Gouger of the Bulletin
This second volume of 'Gouger' contains more of the early writings of Ion Idriess, many written under his various pseudonyms that were previously not located with the great story-teller. Most of these stories, articles and paragraphs have never been in book form until now, and are the result of much pain-staking research by Idriess scholar, Jim Bradly. As always with Idriess, these snippets from another age offer an extremely diverse range of topics as Idriess explored and prospected his way around Australia and its northern islands - life as seen through the eyes of a bushman, a soldier, a social commentator and above all else - a true-blue Australian.
Arts Features International, July-September 2019, Facing the Future
The July-September 2019 'Facing the Future' issue of Arts Features International considers whether or not the future will be utopian or dystopian, and surveys the global climate strikes and the environmental movement led by young people.Ruth Skilbeck. Editorial: Will the Future be Utopian-or Dystopian? Essay and photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019...7Michael Gormly. Critical thinking quickly sorts out denialist nonsense Essay and Photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019...14Deborah Van Heekeren. Disconnectivity poem & artwork...22Ruth Skilbeck. Felena Springs utopian speculative fiction...25Simon Albert (The University of Queensland), Alistair Grinham (The University of Queensland), Badin Gibbes The University of Queens- land), Javier Leon (University of the Sunshine Coast), John Church (CSIRO) Sea-Level Rise has Claimed Five Whole Islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence (from The Conversation 2016)...28Jeremy Gluck. On Digital Art & Culture essay & text based art...34 Anthony Sawrey. A Thousand Miles Beyond: The Equine Paintings of Hugh Sawrey Book extract with paintings by Hugh Sawrey...48Suellen Symons. White Cockatoos Facebook photographs...70Frontline Action on Coal. Facebook posts and photographs of a small community Global Climate Strike near Adani mine, Queensland...24; 72Contributors' notes...77
Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
This volume contains an illustrated collection of Australian Aborigine folklore, rewritten for a general audience. "Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines" is highly recommended for those with an interest in mythology and Australian Aboriginal culture, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Why the Crow is Black", "How the Stars Were Made", "Rolla-Mano and the Evening Star.", "The Story of the Seven Sisters and the Faithful Lovers", "A Legend of the Sacred Bullroarer", "The Great Fight.", "The Flying Chip.", "Why Blackfellows Never Travel Alone - A Legend of the Wallaroo and Willy-Wagtail", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. First published in 1923.
Mandurian Stories
An anthology for Mandurah, by Mandurah, supported by Shape Mandurah. Xanthe Turner began planning this anthology in 2018, inspired by her love of Mandurah, and the people who live here. Shape Mandurah breathed vital life into the project, and Mandurian Stories was born. In an early call for submissions, Xanthe said: "I want everyone in Mandurah, regardless of age or ability, to have an opportunity to express themselves." Xanthe envisioned an anthology which would: "... represent Mandurah as a whole, through snapshots of the individuals who live, work, and play in our beautiful city." Xanthe shared her vision with our community, and our community shared back. Mandurian writers, artists, and children collaborated to create a tangible manifestation of the creative spirit of Mandurah. The words and images in this book contain fragments of lives, facets of experience, and aspects of unique understanding. The common thread, woven through each page, is a deep-seated appreciation for Mandurah itself. Our collective love of this beautiful city binds us together like pages in a book. We are all collaborators in the figurative anthology of life. Every Mandurian deserves immense recognition for the time, passion, and effort involved in creating Mandurian Stories. CONTRIBUTORS Dr. Louise Helfgott Jo Gliddon-Baker Annette Pesek Julie Watts Sarah Cole Mary Ann Rath Estuary Guardians Mandurah Mandurah Dolphin Rescue Group Michael Gorman Kevin Lindsay Fowler Th. C. (Hons) Mandurah Historical Society Claire Cavanagh Hannah O'Keefe Karen Blake Rowe Gail Willems Nikky May Maddy Mac Caroline Julian Isabella Robinson Amelia Kathleen Willis Chase Williams River Williams Isabel Cummins Hailey Cummins Bonnie Cunningham Aaron Gwynaire Nanci Nott Azalia Turner Xanthe Turner Veronika Sajova Photography
Maxims
"Few men know death: we do not usually undergo it deliberately, but unthinkingly and out of habit and most men die because men cannot help dying" --Fran癟ois de La Rochefoucauld"And we open our eyes and feel our way in the dark." --William Bronk "The changes that have occurred in places you return to, the demise of attitudes that once seemed 'inevitable', show not so much how things change with time, but how transitory they always were. The fundamental truth is not that things change, but that they have hardly ever existed.""All my friends, dead for so many years - even their ghosts are dying.""The moon at last quarter sliding out of black cloud, giving body to darkness."--Clive Faust
The Gorse Blooms Pale
Dan Davin, one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1913. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences while growing up in an Irish-New Zealand family in Southland. Comic, haunting, poetic, profound, and lyrical, the stories have a regional flavour quite unlike any other body of work in New Zealand literature. They insightfully capture the character of a close-knit rural community and its post-British social relationships and tribulations, with a flair equal to such other New Zealand writers as Sargeson, Frame, Middleton, or Marshall. The Gorse Blooms Pale is a rare treasure in the landscape of twentieth-century New Zealand literature.
