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These are poems of very thoughtful observation. Glimpses of the natural world, they are also more than that because, together and variously, they raise issues of interrelationship and belonging. Barbara Orłowska-Westwood exhibits a fine delicacy of touch, placing specific moments and images within the larger context of their value and meaning across time, the longer view as it were, with its continuing measure of significance. There is much to admire...
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"I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. But, the Ghan is not the respite I'd been hoping for. It turns out I've trapped myself on an 1,800-mile journey with a powder...
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International best-selling author Lang Leav presents The Gift of Everything, a stunning hardcover gift book featuring her finest pieces to date, spanning across her world-renowned poetry and prose titles from Love & Misadventure to Love Looks Pretty on You. In addition, this beautifully conceived clothbound anthology includes 35 new poems as well as original and arresting illustrations by the author.
Lang's evocative words of love, loss, and self-empowerment...
65) September Love
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A book that will change the way you think about love, relationships, heartbreak, and self-empowerment. Breaking the rules, challenging perceptions, and exploring the secret desires we keep hidden from the world.
Beautifully composed and written by international bestselling author Lang Leav, this new collection of poetry and prose will positively influence your life.
September Love captures the magic of each passing season, a pearl of wisdom...
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Every challenge, every heartache every pain is pushing you forward along the journey of your destiny. With each battle won against your own mind you are growing strength and freedom, you are aligning with the pathway of your Higher Self. And as you step bravely toward this pure version of yourself, you will become more confident, more empowered, and more at peace as you harness the magic of the Universe that surrounds you and nurture the love and...
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Filled with wisdom and encouragement, every single page is a testament to the power of words, and the impact they can have on the relationships you build with others. And most importantly, the one you have with yourself. Lang Leav captures the intricacies of emotions like those that few others can. It's no wonder she has been recognized as a major influencer of the modern poetry movement and her writing has inspired a whole new generation of poets...
68) Capture & Flight
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Eloquent, evocative and exquisite - a collection of eleven brief poems, fragments, notes from the heart. Linnet's short, poetic pieces are like intimate letters from a past life. Through them, we are invited to share a woman's abandonment of her true being in the pursuit of another's controlling desire. These lyrical reflections celebrate the female voice, through scraps of memories captured in finely crafted cadences, alight with inner rhythm.
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This is the work of the late Fler Beaumont, who passed to higher life (1-9-2019). She was a prolific poet and author.
"The Cosmic Connection" volume by Fler, came through a spiritual walk-in, known as Peter Mardon. His spirit wrote these poems, during the 1960's & 1970's.
It is an honour to reproduce this work, titled. "The Cosmic Connection, (A Special Collection of Poems from the 60's & 70's").
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In her third book of poetry, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities of love and challenges the convention of monogamy.
I think of Anthony and Cleopatra...epic, fated, tragic lovers that drank from love's cup but once. Only, I am no Cleopatra. I am Juliette, with her teenage desire; ambivalent about poison and war.
Ruminating the one-love-fits-all theory, and toying with the concept of polyamory, the poetic voice travels from a starting point...
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A selection of Inspirationally written poems by Silvia Avedikian, captured the many aspects of feelings, emotions and wisdom gathered throughout one's life journey.
These poems here shared, offer an opportunity in enhancing faith, hope and enriching optimism in one's personal world. 'The Possibility of a Dream' is exactly an example that dreams can be possible and achievable.
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Based on Dr O'Leary's PhD thesis 'Social and Literary Constraints on Women Writers in New Zealand: 1945-1970' this books explores and exposes the sexist mores of the NZ literary establishment, both publishers and writers, from the end of World War 2 up to the feminists movements of the late 1960s and 1970s.Responses to Michael O'Leary's Wednesday's WomenMichael O'Leary's book makes a unique contribution to knowledge about women writers in New Zealand...
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This muscular and brutally honest collection of poems appeals to the senses. The poems are dark, some are disturbing, all are vivid.
Twisted Velvet Chains: Follows the experiences of a young woman growing up with a bipolar, drug addicted, Gothic musician mother. Each poem represents specific moments of their life that embrace vivid rich imagery, and illustrate the turmoil of emotions both experience while together. The collection is, divided into...
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When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things-your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key.
It is time to find the way back home.
Returning with her newest poetry book, bestselling author Courtney Peppernell combines storytelling, poetry, and prose in a uniquely inspirational way. Filled with anecdotes, messages, and...
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"some people live within the rainbows and niceties of life - I live within my mind where hinges and trap doors creak and crack at every turn... perpetually chasing after me". These delicate, heartfelt poems allow you to explore the raw, heartfelt emotions we all experience in life-joy, sorrow, confusion, and above all... love.
76) I Hope You Stay
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In the spirit of her bestselling series, Pillow Thoughts, Courtney Peppernell returns with a new, empowering collection of poetry and prose. From heartbreak to dreaming of and finding a new love to healing the heart to ultimately finding peace, the themes in this book are universal but also uniquely individual to readers.
Just as moving and endearing as Peppernell's previous books, I Hope You Stay is a reminder of the resilience and hope needed after...
77) The snow kimono
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There are times in your life when something happens after which you're never the same. It may be something direct or indirect, or something someone says to you. But whatever it is, there is no going back. And inevitably, when it happens, it happens suddenly, without warning.
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In 'Dynamo' the antics of a dog cause trouble for his owners. In 'Running the Gauntlet' two wannabee cattle rustlers start out on a hapless pursuit. A year 10 student finds a hoped-for friend has a dark side in 'Killing Two Birds'. A teenager's yearning for more height has a strange outcome in 'There Are More Things'. Enjoy these and six more stories in this diverse collection.
80) Approaching Zero
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'In this fine and eclectic collection of short stories, flash fiction and poetry, Roland Leach explores the human condition with humour and heart. These are interior stories that often grapple with the ache and drive for connection, the puzzlement and the fear. With the sublime assuredness of his writing Leach leads the reader deep into the often silent and complex lives of others. Directly and cleanly told, Approaching Zero surprises with arresting...
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