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Adrian Holmes is a professional counsellor who has worked in practice with Jane for a number of years. In addition to therapeutic work with individuals and families, he also runs professional development training for practitioners in the human services sector and this is where the inspiration for this book has come from. Adrian has a Masters degrees in counselling and, like Jane, believes that the most effective catalyst to change is through conversations. This has led Adrian to his role as the Managing Director of a child and family counselling service in Brisbane called SKATTLE (Supporting Kids & Teens Through Life-changing Experiences). When not counselling, writing and training, Adrian loves running along the water near his Brisbane bayside home, especially with his two small children in the running pram.
Australian poet, Amelia Fielden, has a Master of Arts degree in Japanese Literature, and is a professional translator who also writes original English verse in the traditional Japanese tanka form. Specializing currently in the work of contemporary Japanese women poets, Amelia has translated sixteen such collections to date. In 2007 she was awarded the Donald Keene Prize For Translation of Japanese Literature by Columbia University, USA, for Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Tanka (Cheng & Tsui, Boston). Amelia's own tanka have been widely published in journals and anthologies,and awarded internationally. Six collections of her original poetry have appeared between 2002 and 2010, the most recent of them being Baubles, Bangles & Beads (2007) and Light On Water (2010). Also published in 2010 was Weaver Birds, a bilingual collaborative tanka diary created by Amelia and Japanese born Canberra poet, Saeko Ogi.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is an innovative project continuing and developing the collaborative relationship between two fine tanka poets, Amelia Fielden and Kathy Kituai.
Amelia Walker has published two previous poetry collections: Fat Streets and Lots of Squares and Just Your Everyday Apocalypse. She has also written three books of poems, worksheets, games and lesson plans for the primary school classroom. These are part of Macmillan's All You Need To Teach series. Amelia is currently working on a fictocritical thesis about poetry for her PhD studies at the University of South Australia. Sound and Bundy was written as the artefact component of her Honours thesis.
Inspired by the Ern Malley affair, Sound and Bundy takes a new approach to the verse novel format. Presenting the works of four fictional poets in anthology form, it invites readers to draw together disparate accounts and to create their own conclusions as to what œreally happened.
Andrew Hubbard was born and raised in a small fishing village on the coast of Maine. He graduated from Dartmouth College magna cum laude, receiving awards in creative writing and psychology, and a degree in English. He completed his formal education at Columbia University, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing, summa cum laude. For most of his career, he worked as the Director of Training for a number of major financial institutions. He is a well-known speaker on the topic of corporate training, and has authored three books and dozens of articles on the subject. He is a former martial artist and competitive weight-lifter, a casual student of cooking and wine, a gemologist, a collector of edged weapons, a licensed handgun instructor, and an avid outdoor photographer. He currently lives in rural Indiana with his wife, two Siberian Huskies, and a demon cat. His previous book with IP was Things That Get You.
An earthy second collection from Andrew Hubbard, whose work divines the poetic from things ordinary, recalling the lyrical mastery of Frost. His words trill with birdsong and sparkle with the first touch of sunrise on a waking forest.
Andrew Leggett is a Brisbane poet who works as a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. His work has been widely published in magazines, professional journals, newspapers and anthologies throughout Australia, the UK, the USA and New Zealand. His first collection, Old Time Religion and Other Poems, was published by Interactive Press in 1998. The manuscript of his second collection, Dark Husk of Beauty, was Highly Commended in the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Award in 2005, Commended in the national IP Picks 2006 manuscript competition and has formed the main body of his Master of Philosophy dissertation in Creative Writing. He was also a prize winner in the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award in 2004. Andrew also writes fiction, essays, book reviews and scientific papers on medical ethics, social research in psychiatry and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. His interests in psychoanalysis, literature, film, mythology, cultural studies, aesthetics and the visual and performing arts provide a matrix for passionate expression in his writing.
Andrew Leggett's second collection is stark, bare and unforgettable. In these interconnecting poems, by equal measure serious and darkly comic, the ugly is united with the beautiful to produce a unique aesthetic.
At the age of three, Ann Jones arrived from Sydney with her parents and her sister to live on a sheep and cattle property in the Gulf of Carpentaria, where the family remained for the major part of World War II. It was this experience that inspired her to put her creativity to work and document a way of life that has long since gone.
Since her first labourious encounters with correspondence lessons at the kitchen table, education and motherhood have been the major focuses of Ann's life. She became a teacher by default ‘to escape the expected female career as a shorthand-typist' and discovered a lifetime vocation.
She tutored in Speech Remediation and lectured in Practical Studies at James Cook University and Australian Catholic University in Brisbane and taught in various roles in Papua New Guinea where she and her husband lived for a number of years.
She now enjoys retirement on Bribie Island.
Anne Morgan's children's books include: The Sky Dreamer, which has been translated into French as Le bateau de reves, and the Captain Clawbeak junior novels. She has a PhD in writing and a Masters of Education degree, and is also an award-winning poet. These days lives and writes on Bruny Island, Tasmania, where she is spending a day at Adventure Bay. Their website is www.annemorgan.com.au .
Once upon a full moon night a shining bird flies over a mountain. The Grolken wants the bird to sing, dance and light up his den. The townsfolk want to display her in a palace of glass. But the bird just wants to fly free. The Moonlight Bird and the Grolken is
The Sky Dreamer, by Anne Morgan, illustrated by Céline Eimann, is a picture book that helps children to better understand their feelings of grief after the death of a loved one. Published by IP Kidz, an imprint of IP (Interactive Publications). Also available in French, French-English bilingual and translation editions.
Anne Vines won the Boroondara Prize in 2014 and the Keith Carroll Award in 2020 for short stories. She was shortlisted for the Alan Marshall Short Story Award 1987, The Age Short Story Award 2009, the Henry Handel Richardson Short Story Award 2011, and the international Wasafiri New Writing Prize, 2014. She was commended in the Varuna Harper-Collins Award in 2007 for her novel's "compelling, very exciting voice" and "character-driven unusual twists" which "build up a head of steam". Her novel, A Good Killer, entered in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2008, was commended by the judges for its "fast-paced storytelling". Anne's short fiction was published in Word U Up 2014, Award Winning Australian Writing 2015, Wasafiri Magazine Online 2016, Ring of Words 2018 and Boroondara Literary Awards Anthology 2020. Anne has worked on her novels with Peter Bishop and Helen Barnes-Bulley at Varuna, with writers Lee Kofman, Toni Jordan, Sydney Smith and Janey Runci, and with editor Irina Dunn. Anne Vines completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne, concentrating on Literature and the history of Australia and Britain. She taught at secondary schools in country Victoria, Melbourne and London and at the Council for Adult Education, Melbourne. She managed student welfare, English curriculum and staff professional development. She co-wrote the VCE English and Literature courses and was a public examination assessor of those subjects. Anne has lived in England and Germany, and for shorter periods in Ireland, Wales, Spain, Italy and France. While traveling to UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, South America and Asia, she carried out research in libraries, archives and communities for her novels, including The Ship Wife.
In Ireland in 1795, young housemaid Elizabeth is arrested and charged with sedition.
Ashley teaches Media and English in Victoria. Prior to this he worked in community arts and music retail, while completing studies at Monash University. Ashley sings in a band and is slowly learning piano. He is currently addicted to Studio Ghibli films and spends a lot of time reading the haiku masters like Basho and Issa, along with his favourite Beat poets, particularly Ferlinghetti. His work can be found in a range of Australian publications. Most recently his poetry has appeared in Island, Westerly, Cordite and the bi-lingual journal Red Leaves. His haiku has appeared in Stylus Poetry Journal, Notes from the Gean and Paper Wasp. In 2002 he co-founded Egg(Poetry) and currently works on web publications holland1945 and kippi, while moderating online renku group Issa's Snail. Ashley's first collection of poetry was pollen and the storm (2008). Somehow throughout university he managed to continue reading, writing and listening to poetry, films and music, especially the haiku of Issa and Basho and the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Stepping over Seasons artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. In ‘Overlook', Capes argues that it's much easier for great poets to romanticise the world's most classic cities by poetically and playfully ridiculing his own not-so-romantic Australian hometown.
Barbara Kamler was born in New Jersey and came to Australia in 1972. She is the author of many academic book titles, over sixty journal articles and book chapters, as well as a poetic memoir based on the life of Blanka Wise. She has published poetry in The Age, The Australian, Australian Poetry Journal, Poetrix, Poetry New Zealand and various anthologies. Barbara is Emeritus Professor at Deakin University, Melbourne, and mentors early career researchers on academic writing and publishing in Australia and overseas. She lives in Melbourne.
This collection recounts the story of leaving America, where the author was born, and of arriving in Australia, where she did not plan to stay. It is a tale of unsettling and resettling, of leaving as an ongoing process. Each micro-scene is a snapshot of time and place - spanning decades and moments, continents and conversations, wars, dreams and kitchen tables - to capture the psychological and spatial tensions between "here" and "there". Leaving New Jersey is a lyrical re-experiencing of putting down roots and tearing them up, an extraordinary poetic account of an ordinary woman's quest for home.
Belinda Blecher is a child and adolescent psychologist based in Sydney, Australia. She has worked extensively in teaching hospitals, child guidance clinics and early years education settings in both London and Sydney. Belinda also runs her own private psychology practice. She has lectured students, teachers and psychologists on early intervention and promoting mental health in young children throughout Australia. Belinda lives with her husband and two teenage children.
The poems are presented in a loose semblance of order beginning with the signifier poem, Unbounded Air, followed by the shorebird poems noting the urgent need to address their threatened habitat. This environmental theme continues in many of the poems.
Beverley Fitzgerald has been a writer from an early age. A childhood spent in rural South East Queensland fostered a lifelong interest in Nature with birds being a particular fascination. During a long professional Social Work career, Beverley continued her writing alongside the many other tasks of life. Her poems have been published in Hecate and short stories in collections and magazines as well as online. Contemporary circumstances have given more time to review her extensive collection of poems. This selection epitomises Bev's love of birds and the richness they have brought to her life. At the same time, this selection reminds us of the environmental and climatic issues now threatening many essential habitats as well as the extinction of those precious species which rely on them. Yet, the works aim for more than this. They seek to highlight the joy and comfort birds can bring to each of us. Knowing birds helps us to hold onto hopefulness. They show us there is a natural order of how we are meant to live and offer a calm, healing refl ection when we choose to observe the Unbounded Air of birds.
Brian T. Collopy graduated M.B.B.S. Melbourne and holds Fellowships of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators. He is a past Director of the Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and Associate Professor of Surgery at Melbourne University. He has had a long-standing interest in the assessment of the quality of care and with the award of a Kellogg Fellowship, and subsequently a WHO consultancy, he studied and advised on health care practices in Europe and Asia, as well as North America. He has conducted numerous studies addressing the quality of care at the hospital, inter-hospital and national levels, has authored or co-authored over 150 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, and has spoken extensively on the subject. Amongst a variety of roles in relation to the quality of health care he was President of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS), which conducts a national hospital accreditation program. With ACHS he developed clinical performance measures, which are now used in a number of other countries, and provide the ACHS with a unique national clinical database. Other offices include being Chairman of the Advisory Council of the International Society of Quality Assurance (ISQua) and the Advisory Committee on Elective Surgery (ACES) in Victoria. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 and received a Fellowship of the Australian Medical Association in 1996. Currently he is the Director of CQM Consultants, formed to assist health care organisations to assess the quality of their care. In this capacity he has guided tertiary referral hospitals on performance measurement and assisted organisations such as the Department of Health in South Australia, the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Correctional Health Services, and New South Wales Mental Health. He has also assisted the Hong Kong Hospital Authority to develop clinical performance measures. He has just retired from membership of the Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), but continues as a Clinical Advisor to the ACHS and as a member of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT). A number of his activities, such as the clinical indicator development for hospital accreditation, a follow-up protocol after bowel cancer surgery, and the categorisation of urgency for elective surgery waiting list patients, were world-first achievements.
The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and Bendigo in mid-Victoria.
Carla is a published children's book illustrator, residing in Sydney. She grew up in Johannesburg and lived in NYC. She is passionate about bringing joy to the world through optimistic and imaginative illustrations. Carla has three kids and loves seeing the special relationships that they have formed with their grandparents. She is always working on her next children's book project.
Charley de Lupe is a Sydney based author of children's books. She lives with her pets on the edge of a big national park and, every day, kookaburras, rosellas, king parrots, magpies and butcher birds visit her on her balcony. She loves animals and has a pet dog called Frankie. She also loves travelling, and so it was during a visit to Paris that she came up with the idea to write about an adventurous dog that got lost in France.
In Book 1 of Puggle in a Muddle, the Canine star of the television series of the same name, Mango, is much loved by her owner Kaylia, a Hollywood actress. Just before Mango can be immortalised with her very own star on the Walk of Fame, she's separated from Kaylia in an airport, ending up in Paris, where she has to stand in as the star of Monsieur Henri Pompomier's spring fashion range.
Dale Kentwell was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1961. She attended Seaforth College of TAFE, completing an Arts Certificate in 1984. She went on to obtain her Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) in 1988 from the City Art Institute, Paddington. She also undertook Bush Regeneration Studies at Ryde College of TAFE in 1990-91. Dale is inspired by environmental issues, the Australian landscape and particularly the importance of remnant bushland. She believes strongly in the need to preserve and recognise these important areas. Working primarily with painting and photography, the artist has exhibited in 28 group shows, and has had seven solo exhibitions. Her work is held in private and public collections. Dale lives with her partner and three sons on the northern beaches of Sydney.
Join artist Dale Kentwell on her journey of discovery into the heart of Outback Australia where she explores the essentials of artistic expression, survival, motherhood, and being.
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Dr Barbara Snook is a Professional Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Auckland in the Dance Studies program. She taught dance in Brisbane High Schools for 20 years and was the Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance at the University of Otago during 2008. Barbara received an Osmotherley Award in 2007 for her services toward the development of dance in Queensland and she was nominated for an Australian Dance Award for services to dance education in 2006. Her textbooks, Dance... Count Me In and Dance for Senior Students are used throughout schools in Australia and New Zealand. She has also written Dance Room Book One and Dance Room Book Two for children in the first years of school. Barbara writes academic articles for publication in international academic journals and is currently working on a research project that involves arts integration in primary schools. During Barbara's tenure as the Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance, she facilitated a dance programme for people living with cancer. The dance motivated the participants to continue despite hardship and they developed a sense of pride in being part of something that was larger than themselves. They embodied a sense of courage and finally in performing they moved their audience to tears. During the Fellowship, Barbara wrote a children's book titled, Come Dance With Me about death and the healing power of dance. Barbara's teaching allows her to work with students with special needs, the elderly and many other community groups. She is particularly interested in fostering creativity through the arts and in doing so, help participants to realise their potential. Her work in this area extends into China and India. Barbara enjoys participating in Authentic Movement sessions and dancing/acting in television commercials. Her great loves are her grandchildren who live in Perth, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. She is constantly planning holiday time with them.
When a family member dies, often the response of children is overlooked or underestimated. This very important book makes tangible the range of emotions felt but not completely understood by children for the loss of a parent or sibling. It offers welcome channels of response that can help survivors to not only understand their feelings but also come to grips with the loss and get on positively with their lives.
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