This book gives you the much needed information and tools to keep your memory running at its peak!Common memory problems i.E. Why we can't memorize, or we cant recall etc., Will also be tackled in this book. The options available out there will be discussed, such as memorizing techniques, naturopathic/herbal solutions, which can be used to improve and even keep our memories running in tip-top shape!This is a holistic, memory management package, not just mnemonics and similar...

The children leaving the school are all very excited. There is a birthday party but someone is not invited… Feeling left out? Thisstory about imagination and friendship helps cure the "not invited to the party" blues. From the child psychologist Susanna Isern, author of Racoon wants to be first.

Robin Sinclair lives, writes and paints in the Adelaide Hills. This collection of poems and reflections was put together during the long Covid lockdown of 2020. Later in that year, she turned eighty.

Robin Sinclair lives in the Adelaide Hills, a region not unlike the north-west coast of Tasmania where she grew up. Her haiku, poems and paintings record what she observes and loves. In the second half of this book, she has used her imagination to bring to life the stories of some of her pioneer ancestors from the time when Tasmania was Van Diemen’s Land, and ‘the beautiful island at the end of the world’ was also one its most remote and scary places.

Robin Sinclair lives in the Adelaide Hills, where she paints, writes, walks, gardens and observes. She has a husband who makes puppets, a son who has adventures and writes about it, another who writes verse novels, and a daughter who composes music and teaches others to love it. Family habits include writing silly verse at Christmas and reading the dictionary at mealtimes.

Winner 2015 Griffin Poetry PrizeIn Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sh...

A fresh selection of the finest poems—some previously uncollected—by one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry? For the weird unemployment.For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strikedown along your writing arm at the accumulated moment.For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verbbefore the trance leaves you. For working always beyondyour own intel...

Winner of the The Poets' Prize (1990)Yet, these are ultimately poems of survival. Jarman explores the redemptive power of the imagination and the ways in which we transform experience into stories we tell about our lives. His characters vividly express the will to cling to existence and understand it as they pursue the meaning of family, home, identity, and love. Invented memories resurrect a forgotten past, opening doors of possibility and adding a strange richnes...

Gentle, thoughtful poetry from an American expatriate in rural Australia.

"from this sea I am fished, / gutted and stripped, / bled and bound, / on your ship I sail, / or go down."A Lovely Gutting echoes with the music of traditional nature poetry, but its romantic style is ripped by rawness. These poems - enraged and erotic, tormented and tender - swirl around the pain of personal loss, ebbing and surging like the North Atlantic.Durnford pictures a Newfoundland not found in postcards. Her verse roams an island only half-wild, a ramshack...

The centerpiece of this collection of poems is "Presence," a sequence of forty "translations from the natural world" about a variety of settings and their amazing denizens. Lyre birds, honeycombs, sea lions, possums, all act as spurs for Murray's protean talent for description and imitation."Even with a score of volumes and a king's ransom of literary honors to his credit, Australian poet Murray refuses to take words for granted. His latest collection is a forceful blend of formalis...

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in *American Primitive—*continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit—to accepting the ...