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Shark ISBN 9781921924460 Shark reaffirms the originality and depth of Terry Jaensch’s poetic vision. Here are poems that explore the territories of childhood, human relationships and the natural world, but never with anything less than an unsettling sense of what it means to be operating from the margins or entering the unspoken core. At once witty and affecting these poems of love and suffering are superbly honed, rigorous and above all emotionally resolute. ‘If it's possible to fall in love with someone from their words alone, consider me smitten. Jaensch's poems are captivating, thrilling and devastating. They're somehow, at once, both vulnerable and muscular, sexy and embarrassing, scorchingly funny and guttingly sad, completely queer and wholly universal. If I didn't know any better, I'd suspect Jaensch wrote these poems just to knock the wind out of us all.’ Benjamin Law, author of The Family Law and Gaysia
Terry Jaensch is an Australian poet/actor and monologist. His first book of poetry Buoy (FIP) was shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. He has worked as Writer-in-Community, Poetry Editor (Cordite) Artist-in-Residence, Dramaturge, Artistic Director of the 2005 Emerging Writers’ Festival, poetry teacher and in a variety of arts/community and local government programming positions. In 2004 he wrote and recorded 15 monologues based on his childhood in a Ballarat orphanage for ‘Life Matters’ ABC Radio. He was awarded an Asialink residency in Singapore where, with poet Cyril Wong, he co-authored the volume Excess Baggage & Claim (Transit Lounge). He has won awards including the Melbourne Poet’s Union International Poetry Prize, the Victorian Writers’ Centre Poetry Slam and was on the winning team of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival Poetry Slam. His work has been anthologised, most recently in Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann) and published in journals nationally and in the US, Germany, Japan, Singapore and India. His poems have been translated into Korean, Bengali, Russian and interpreted as classical Indian dance. In 2011 he presented at the Seoul International Forum for Literature as part of an Australia/Korea poetry exchange facilitated by Asialink and Cordite. He has trained as an actor, having studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio and Stella Adler conservatory in New York. |
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Hard Times ISBN: 9781921924477 ‘In the spirit of A. B. Facey’s A Fortunate Life, Jack Mercer’s Hard Times is the true story of the author’s amazing adventures. In 1911, growing up in an Ararat pub, he faces the terror of a violent stepfather and a mother who barely acknowledges his existence. But one thing keeps him sane: a plan to run. And once he starts running a page turning story begins. From early Werribee, Sydney, life aboard a Norwegian barque, Chile, Patagonia and Buenos Aires, to working as an elevator boy in New York and riding the trains as a tramp in Virginia, Jack Mercer’s hard times and wonderful times capture our every attention.’ Recently discovered and brought to light by his grandson, Brett Pierce, this gem of a book is true travel adventure, vivid history, and a poignant story that asserts the essential need to believe in oneself. ‘The book begins with an escape and gains momentum through pages that manifest the geographical scope and richness of Patrick Leigh Fermor and the wild energy of Jack Kerouac. The sad thing is there will be no more Jack Mercer books, but we should be thankful that Hard Times found its way into the light, one of the heretofore unplucked gems of Australian literature.’ Patrick Holland, author of The Mary Smokes Boys and Riding the Trains in Japan Jack Mercer was born in 1896 in Archdale, Victoria as John Christopher Levy. He spent his early years in Archdale and Ararat. He fought in the First World War in the Canadian branch of the Royal Flying Corps, surviving two crashes. After the war he worked in a variety of roles in Canada, USA and Latin America before his appointment as manager of British American Bye-Products in Australia in 1934. He lived his working years in Prahran and retired to McCrae in Victoria, just near the lighthouse. He remained an occasional world traveller for most of his life. 1896-1976. |
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Crazy Little Heaven: An Indonesian Journey
Born in Tasmania, Australia, in 1957, Mark Heyward has spent the last twenty years living, travelling and working in Indonesia. He now lives with his wife and two children in Lombok. Mark currently works as an international education consultant. In his spare time he writes, makes music, and takes long walks in the hills. |
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Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere
Poe Ballantine currently lives in Chadron, Nebraska. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and The Sun Kenyon Review. In addition to garnering numerous Pushcart and O. Henry nominations, his work has been included in The Best American Essays. His other books include Things I Like About America and Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire. |
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What Westerners Have for Breakfast: Five Years in Goa ‘India, sex, death, relationships, expatriates, drugs, bureaucracy, food, antiques and jazz. Master wordsmith McBeath stirs these ingredients into an extraordinarily personal, funny and revelatory account of a tree change gone wrong. What Westerners Have for Breakfast will grab your attention from the first sentence to the last.’ ‘A tropical paradise can drive you crazy. And Aussie John McBeath, chasing new dreams of doing business in the old hippie haven of Goa, fears just how quickly this can happen as he wrangles with India’s bungling officialdom and encounters the bizarre and often disturbing, all the while trying to save a relationship. A frank and entertaining memoir told with humour, poignancy and a hint of caution.’
John McBeath was born in New Zealand and came to Australia so long ago that he arrived by ship. A freelance writer, John lives with his wife Mary overlooking the Gulf of St Vincent in Adelaide. For the past ten years he has been a music critic for The Australian and Advertiser newspapers. He has won national prizes for music and travel writing, and enjoyed a life of daedalian variety.Returning after five years in India John managed community radio stations in Cairns and then Alice Springs where he met Mary. The pair moved to Adelaide, in 1996, where they set up a small wholesale business importing coffee beans from Laos. They sold the business after ten years, and since then, John, semi-retired, has concentrated on writing. |
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