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Caught in the Light

August 19, 2002

* SOLD OUT ‘Caught in the Light: a celebration of Newcastle’ (2002) by Zeny Giles Zeny Giles has won national short story competitions, published a novel, Between Two Worlds, and a short story collection, Miracle of the Waters, and had her play, Zorica, performed in schools throughout the Hunter Valley. These have all been on [...]

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Heaven’s Gate

July 19, 2001

‘Heaven’s Gate’ (2001) by Trevor Fing This, Trevor Fing’s first novel, was written in a series of NSW prisons. He knows the chafing oppression, menace and claustrophobia of ‘inside’ as one who is enduring years in jail, and the freedom and peril of the skies as one who has flown in both. The soundless precision [...]

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Visions from the Valley: Poetry of the Hunter Valley, 1960-2000

June 19, 2001

‘Visions from the Valley: Poetry Of The Hunter Valley, 1960-2000′ (2001) Ed. by Donald Moore * selling fast Dr Moore, once executive of an international textiles organisation, now in his ninety-second year, chose the works in this definitive anthology of the voices and visions of seventy-nine Hunter Valley poets over forty years. Who would you [...]

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Seamark Pamphlets #4

October 19, 2000

* SOLD OUT SEAMARK PAMPHLETS #4 2000 by Max Ryan, Jan Dean, Robin Loftus et al. ‘SEAMARK FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM’ Cover and four illustrations by Sophia Montefiore. Design and layout by Norman Talbot The winning and selected poems from Catchfire’s first poetry competition were selected by Zeny Giles, Norman Talbot and Ron Vickress, and [...]

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Backyard Cosmos: new and selected poems

June 19, 2000

‘Backyard Cosmos: new and selected poems’ (2000) by Robin Loftus Robin Loftus, a much valued psychotherapist at the University of Newcastle, has published her poems widely in Australian periodicals and newspapers, and in 1992 published her only previous collection of poems, Flying Fish . A few poems from that collection are shrewdly placed as thematic [...]

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Is That Love?

October 19, 1999

‘Is That Love?’ (1999) by Margaret Sutherland Margaret Sutherland, one of New Zealand’s finest story writers, has published six books variously in Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the USA. Many of her short stories have been printed, broadcast and anthologised. In the Hunter Valley, where she has lived since 1985, Margaret is also an honoured [...]

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The Goblin Child

March 19, 1999

‘The Goblin Child’ (1999) by Lisbet De Castro Lopo Lisbet de Castro Lopo, Danish born, and having retired early, in 1992, from two illustrious careers, one in cultural geography and another as a coordinator of translation services, at last had time and opportunity to embark on her career as a writer. She published stories, reviews [...]

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Seamark Pamphlets #3

February 19, 1999

* SOLD OUT SEAMARK PAMPHLETS #3 1999 by ZENY GILES ‘VINTAGE CROP’ Cover and illustrations by Ruth Urhig Samuels. This delightful short story had been one of the prizewinners in the ABC Radio National Books and Writing competition in 1995. It not only evokes a Greek migrant response to the Hunter Valley wineries, from an [...]

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Seamark Pamphlets #1

November 19, 1998

* SOLD OUT SEAMARK PAMPHLETS #1 1998 by Norman Talbot ‘SONG-CYCLE OF THE BIRDS: LAKE MACQUARIE’ With computer photo-imaging by Sybil Smith. Design by Matthew Ward. Norman Talbot is a prize-winning poet with eleven volumes and pamphlets to his name. Published before Catchfire took its final form and name, this elegant folio poem was listed [...]

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Seamark Pamphlets #2

October 19, 1998

* SOLD OUT SEAMARK PAMPHLETS #2 1998 by Ron Vickress ‘BLACK BEGINNINGS (A Creation Fable)’ Illustrations and design by Colette Douchkov. Set in the day of creation on which the birds were created and decked out in their finery, this story tells how the last bird to turn up impudently attempts to wheedle colours and [...]

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