Ginninderra Press: 334 books

That week, we went to a kabuki show, stories of wandering souls  in search of revenge, or lost love.   On my last night in Tokyo my father comes in  at a wooden gate, wet with rain…   from ‘The Wooden Gate’  

Being denied access to a place by necessity you invent it. In these poems, the author explores cultural identity and loss as the daughter of an Estonian dislocated from his family and country by post-war turmoil. Based on fractured truths, fairy tales and longings, this collection is a personal mosaic of a land and her place in it.

A former lecturer in Greek, Roman and Ancient Near Eastern history and literature at the University of Tasmania, Graeme Hetherington has spent much of his adult life living at large in Europe and Turkey to be closer to the source of his subject matter. More often than not, his response to his culturally...

‘There is a seamlessness about these poems; the stitching doesn’t show. Egan brings the full range of poetic techniques to his work, but they are largely invisible in the context of the whole. There were many times I had to pause while reading…often mid-poem, sometimes to reflect on how they...

Everyone has a story. It would be foolish indeed to make comparisons, for there is always someone better or worse off than oneself. However, there is a comforting and healing sense of kinship with others who have had similar experiences. Even death, that, which we call the last act of our play, does...

In this, her fourth book, Barbara Fisher addresses diverse subjects ranging from literature and art to the natural world, traveI, food, family, and narratives of colonial days and the migrant experience. ‘Barbara Fisher has a highly personal way of seizing an historicaI moment or a daily...

Peter Hansen spent 40 years working and managing sheep stations in far west New South Wales. He then spent a couple of years living in the UK which gave him a different perspective on life. He currently works in Aged Care in Melbourne. This is his second volume of poetry

Extravagance is Irene Wilkie’s second collection. Throughout, she demonstrates a delight in the natural world and its inhabitants. At the same time, she treats, often with a wry humour, the more serious aspects of growing older, loss and environmental concerns. There is strong enquiry with empathy...

The craft in this, Graeme Hetherington’s third collection of poems, is like that of the tapestry maker. In short lyrics of sinewy tetrameter and assonantal music, the poet’s dark and bright strands of narrative, of thematic concern, are interwoven in a technique that allows the shape of an individual...

In The Painted Lady Suzanne Edgar focuses on art, the natural world, the intimacy of love, human caprice. These poems will stop you in your tracks with the force of their emotional intensity.  ‘…a highly intelligent, inventive and gifted poet…’ – Les Murray ‘…her lively...

Catching the Light is Suzanne Edgar’s fourth collection of poetry. In it, this ‘intelligent, inventive and gifted poet continues her daring discoveries and explorations’ (Les Murray) of both the light and the darker sides of life. When reviewing The Love Procession (2012), the late Peter Pierce...

Jill Gloyne lives on Kangaroo Island. Brushstrokes, her latest collection, includes many poems that have been previously published in a wide variety of journals and some that have won awards.

Set in times ranging from the mediaeval to present day and in places as far apart as Australia, Europe and North America, these eighteen short stories reveal life in its bewildering, sometimes funny, and at times achingly sad moments. All is witnessed through the eyes of diverse, often flawed characters:...

‘Pat Lee’s poetry often reflects her respect and reverence for the things of the natural world. She has an artist's eye for landscape and a Wordsworthian ability to paint it in lyric poetry. Many of her images and word choices have an inevitability about them, a surety that is enviable. Hers is...