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WILLIAM, Curtis

Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry

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ISBN 978-1-923265-42-4
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All My Bad Habits

 

Poetry

Dive into the raw, unfiltered world of All My Bad Habits. This is a collection all about the chaos and beauty of going through the waves and motions of this crazy, beautiful and complicated world. Whether it’s falling in love so hard you feel your bones crack on the sidewalk
or realising you have an inner child who’s wounds need your attention. Along the way we pick up habits that are a product of this profound, beautiful and utterly scary experience of growing up as a young adult. The people that come through the doors of our life come in so many unexpected forms, and he would change everything.

Join the club and witness the weave of words with a deft hand, exploring themes of love, loss, addiction, and redemption. This collection is a testament to the power of vulnerability, capturing the essence of our most intimate flaws and the redemptive beauty found within
them. Bold, introspective, and profoundly honest, All My Bad Habits is a journey through the heart’s darkest corners and back into the light.

WATSON, Michael

Aug 7, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Melbourne, Poetry, Victoria

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WITHOUT ANGELS

 

prose and poems

Without Angels is a series of small prose pieces written over the years since retiring in 1996.
It covers personal memories and observations of daily life.

About the Author

Michael Watson was born in 1942 in Melbourne.
After dropping out of High School he spent some years in farms around Victoria and New South Wales as a Jackeroo before returning to study at the age of 20. He completed a first class honours degree in Science at Monash University and went on to study for an MA at Princeton, New Jersey in 1967. The he met Nadine in 1969, whom he married in 1970. They have two children, Anne and David, and five grandchildren, Doug, Jack, Charlie, Juliette and Olivier.

PEDRANA, Michael

Aug 5, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Poetry, Western Australia

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black sheep poems

dear reader,

we are strangers you and i me a farmer of words all tangled from the violent paddock and criminal path of my broken existence and you searching for the escape only poems can give in between the humdrum and echo of your routine life i pity you as i pity me we never asked for words to undo this noose where we search for meanings to carry us from time i give to you the untamed weather inside the painted word drawings of my heart and you opening up this book allow me to exist

dear reader

i thank you for that for here i ask you to read this unrehearsed broken tune of poems from your heart (where true thoughts are made) while casting your anchor outside the deaf and desolate unreachable sharpness that limps your routine i do not require your like or dislike of my melted tune
here is no audience i seek dear reader only hands to open the vault of this book where now i breathe dear reader we are strangers you and i.

About the Author

At 12 Mike Pedrana wanted to be a poet. ‘It’s not just the poetry but the poets themselves I could relate to. The more I read about them, their genius, their madness, their poverty, their escapisms, their exile, and their suicides, the more I knew I was one.

Anyone can write a poem. But not everyone is a Poet’. (Phone Interview | Roebourne Prison 1991)

SMART, Andrew

Jun 11, 2024 | *Featured books, Art and illustration, Australian, Mt Gambier, Poetry, South Australia

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Wide Is The World

Andrew Smart is a poet & artist who lives in Mount Gambier.

His works explore the human condition and celebrate the beauty & wonder of the natural world.

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Listen to the Poets

Andrew Smart is a poet and artist who lives in Mount Gambier.

His works explore the human condition and celebrate the beauty and wonder of the natural world.

MAZZONE, Larissa

May 30, 2024 | *Featured books, Adelaide, Poetry, South Australia

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ISBN 978-1-92315-68-9
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When Venus Met Mars

When girl met boy and fell in love.

A collection of poems written about a very special person.

You’ll be greater than a Da Vinci painting
The biggest mystery in history.
The world will no longer ask why
Mona Lisa is smiling.
But instead,
who is the man behind all of the poetry?

MORRIS, Don

Nov 28, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Education, Philosophy, Poetry

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Can We Do Better?

All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity. As clarified in all the poems — misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.

The poems weave a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. They highlight the impact of manmade harms to the earth, First Peoples, women, children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings.

Some men might struggle with this unusual and confronting anthology. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they work their way through the poems and the themes.

The poems advocate that societal evolution is contingent upon a critical mass of us facing key facts, truths and realities about wayward masculinity. The anthology concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.
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Are We Better Than?

ARE WE BETTER THAN? is the fourth in series of books that tackle pervasive and perplexing human issues. It is the scaled-down, abridged little-sister version of Can We Do Better? … which is the first and by the far the largest of the series. Comprising about half the number of pages of Can We do Better? … Are We Better Than? is less daunting and more manageable. This will appeal to people who prefer a smaller, easier, more compact read.

All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity.  As clarified throughout the book, misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere … by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.

Are We Better Than? weaves a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. It highlights the impact of man-made harms to the Earth, First Peoples, Women, Children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings. Some men might struggle with these unusual and confronting themes. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they read.

Are We Better Than? concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.

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About the Author

Don Morris is a family man and a retired veteran social worker. His professional background integrates counselling, program management, organisational improvement, cultural change, leadership development, teaching at university, and running his consultancy business.

Don is people-focused, a big-picture thinker, and a change agent. He is dedicated to promoting social justice and critical analysis of human issues. Don is perceptive, an original thinker, and solution-focused. He tackles issues with clarity, focus and determination.

In this anthology, Don is a ‘conscious dreamer’ and a mindful visionary. He is lucid about respective and combined influences of religion, populism, political machinations, pop-psychology, junk-science, conspiracy madness, internet misinformation, and social media inanity. In the face of these, Don is committed to educational processes that give voice to facts, truths and realities. He is also committed to possibilities for us to do better than so much unhelpful stuff that dumbs us down and holds us back.

In all his books, Don drills down into ‘inconvenient truths’ and synthesizes diverse macro and micro issues. He proposes ways for us to build a conscious blend of awareness, dignifying values, rationality, integrity, and accountability. Don reminds us that these interrelated priorities apply to individuals, relationships, institutions, communities, cultures, and governance. They are also crucial to our care and custodianship of human and environmental ecologies.

Don is person of mind, heart and hand. He is thinker, a lover, and a doer. His books encourage readers to think intelligently, rationally and strategically … to feel sentiently, passionately and earnestly … and to act purposefully, constructively and hopefully.