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BUY TANGENTS, KITCHEN TABLE POETS NEW COLLECTION

take seven poets, a kitchen table
and a famous artist
what do you get?
The Kitchen Table Poets, seven Shoalhaven women who meet monthly to share their love of poetry and read their latest works around a kitchen table, have published a new book – Tangents. Containing a collection of diverse poetry, the book is a visual delight. [...]

STORIES OF EXPERIENCE: learning from the environmental experiences of older Australians

This is a book of 24 short stories celebrating the practices, innovations and wisdom of older people…stories about surviving hardship and self-sufficiency.
Mend and make do, thrift and sharing were a major part of life well before recycling, environmentalism and plasma television sets. Up-to-date environmental information with each story suggests a change or action all [...]

Spiders: learning to love them

When nightmares about spiders started ruining Lynne Kelly’s life, she decided that the cure for her fear was knowledge – and so began her journey from arachnophobe to obsessive arachnophile.
Spiders are everywhere. No matter how clean, how stark, how sterile your home, the spiders will come. Spiderlings will balloon in and wait for the insects [...]