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.

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...

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...

New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from Taller When Prone (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection. Les Murray is one of the finest poets writing today; endlessly inventive, his work celebrates the world and the power of the imagination. New Selected Poems is the poet's choice of his essential works: an indispensable collection for readers who already love his poetry, and an ideal introduction for ...

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.

Shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021Shortlisted for the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection PrizeShortlisted for the 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry PrizeShortlisted for The 2019 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First CollectionThe Telegraph's Poetry Book of the Month March 2019A Telegraph Book of the Y...

"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...

Not only the migrating birds speak in Translations from the Natural World. The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which find distinctive voices in this new collection of poems by Les Murray. Few poets could achieve such variety of approach to express character and feelings and to give us their vision of the universe. Les Murray also includes the human animal in the ...