To mark the 25th anniversary of Ginninderra Press publishing in Adelaide, the anthology ‘Milestones’ contains poems from a selection of Ginninderra press authors.
My poem ‘An X-ray in 1966’ is included in this anthology
Ginninderra Press Anthology
Publications
‘I Protest’ Anthology
My poem ‘Shame the Devil’ appears in the Ginninderra Press anthology ‘I Protest’, subtitled ‘Poems of Dissent’.
‘In these poems of protest and dissent are to be found anger, anxiety, compassion, insight and sharp observation, expressed in the way that is the special gift of poets. There’s humour, too, to leaven the more serious poems.’
The anthology is available here.
The poem can be found on the ‘Extracts’ page of this website.
New Book
And now for something completely different! This is my first novel, after four poetry books. Its full release has been delayed by Covid 19, but for anyone in lockdown it should prove ideal – you can curl up with a nice cosy murder mystery set in the Channel Islands.
It’s available on the main Amazon site here.
(but it can’t at the moment be delivered in Australia.)
For Australian readers, you can order it from Green Olive Press here.
For readers in the UK, it’s available on Amazon uk here
The cover photograph is by my grand-daughter Rosalie Ritter-Jones.
‘Mountain Secrets’ Anthology
Mountains are constant but continually changing. Captive to the seasons, they reveal many faces: in winter shrouded in snow and mist, yet so visibly majestic in the summer months that they appear to touch the sky. Lost in clouds at times, so discernible at others. Places of solitude yet at the mercy of mountaineers who swarm them. Both revered and feared; mystical and earthy; elusive but tangible. Does the mystery of mountains lie in the many paradoxes that surround them? Join more than 150 poets from across Australia in a tantalising exploration of mountains around the world, real and imagined, literal and figurative.
This is the Ginninderra Press anthology ‘Mountain Secrets’. It includes my poem ‘Tai Shan’.
The anthology is available here.
Ginninderra Press ‘Wild’ Anthology
Ginninderra Press is celebrating 10 years in Adelaide with an anthology of poems, chosen from poets published by them.
The anthology is available here.
My poem ‘Invasion’ (published in the Pocket Poets collection ‘Second Person Singular’) is included in the anthology. Two other poets from the Mornington poetry workshop ‘Peninsula Poetica’, Avril Bradley and Ann Simic, are also included. All three of us descended on Adelaide in July, to attend the launch and read our poems.
Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize
My poem ‘You Are…’ won first prize in the Society of Women Writers’ Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize. The poem is included in my current collection ‘Lines Waving’, and will also be published in the second edition of the SWWV Journal ‘Sparx’, which is due to be launched at the end of November.
New Book – Lines Waving
We now have copies available of my new Poetry collection, ‘Lines Waving’. This is my third poetry book, my second full-length collection.
It’s available online at the Lulu site, link here
In due course, it will also be available on Amazon and as an e-book.
The cover design is by my grand-daughter Penelope Ritter-Jones, who did the design for my Ginninderra Press Pocket Poets booklet, ‘Second Person Singular’. It follows a similar structure to my own design for my first collection, ‘Lines Dancing’.
All three books are available through the BOOKS page on this site.
Journal of SWWV
The first issue of ‘Sparx’, the Literary Journal of the Society of Women Writers Victoria, has now been launched. There will be two issues per year, showcasing members’ work and publishing winning entries in SWWV competitions.
My prize-winning article ‘The Right Direction’, about directing for the stage, is included in this issue.
‘Imagine’ Anthology
My poem ‘Mosaic Man’ appears in the Poetica Christi Press anthology ‘Imagine’.
It’s available here.
‘The Poet’s Quest for God’ Anthology
After waiting for four years to see if this publication would finally get off the ground, after the publishers hit sponsorship problems, it is at last available.
My poem in the anthology is one of the set of sonnets that got me shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize.
It’s on Amazon, link here
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