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  • Simple Pleasures
    Brenda Eldridge
    The almost inescapable presence of TV advertising and social media in our lives means we are being constantly bombarded by information. News can be about devastation by natural forces, or the unspeakable atrocities of man’s inhumanity to his fellow beings. We are exposed to the appalling behaviour of so-called world leaders and wonder why our young people find it so hard to bel...
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    13,67 €

  • Sounds & Silences
    Brenda Eldridge
    Vivid memories prompted by hearing a few stray notes playing sent me wandering through my very rich life to renew my love of particular pieces of music and songs. When I started writing poems, I recognised that, for me, music is like ekphrastic poetry. A composer responds to something and in turn there is my response to the composer. From my own experiences, I was reminded how ...
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    12,57 €

  • Dancing Dots
    Brenda Eldridge
    Unexpected challenges to my self-confidence and then reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli sent me on an exploration of time and memory. Rovelli took my understanding of time to pieces from a physics perspective and put it back together again from a philosophical one. I’ve been aware for years of those famous words of Descartes - ’I think, therefore I am.’ Rovelli is sayin...
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    13,79 €

  • Stepping into the Blue
    Brenda Eldridge
    As a child, I drove my mother to distraction with my never-ending stream of ’Whys?’ I knew I had reached the end of her patience when she answered with ’Why? Because.’ My stream of questions has never run dry, rather I have learned over long years to accept that most things have only a temporary answer because more and new information and understanding will appear as I read and...
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    13,73 €

  • Liminal
    Brenda Eldridge
    The question is, how did I become a seventy-two-year-old woman, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, wife, stepmother, editor, poet, essayist, artist and friend who ends every single day sending her prayers of thanks to the moon? A frank and moving reflection on how a shy English child fulfilled her potential in Australia. ...
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  • Tangled Roots
    Brenda Eldridge
    One of the important things I learned when my poetry was first published was that, no matter how much time and effort I put into ensuring the poems were in what I thought was the right order, my readers would more likely randomly select a piece that caught their attention. It is no different when putting together a selection of poems from several volumes except that when Jude A...
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    21,29 €

  • Flower Child
    Brenda Eldridge
    ’I write to make it real.’ How often I have said that over the years? I didn’t make it up to sound clever, it is what I do and who I am. In a life filled to overflowing with richness and challenges, there has been much to write about and I have. Flower Child was born when I was thrust unexpectedly back sixty-something years into my childhood by the perfume of a flower in a quie...
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    16,40 €

  • Connecting
    Brenda Eldridge
    Lives hold promise and promises. Keeping one promise might mean breaking another, for life is anything but simple. I had promised myself I would not go back to England – or, if I did, I would stay there. I did not want to pull myself up by the roots to leave it again. But I also promised Stephen that I would go anywhere with him. We had often spoken of going to England – his da...
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    15,14 €

  • Homespun Tapestry
    Brenda Eldridge
    As a child I drove my mother to distraction with my constant question, Why? After a stream of these endless whys I can still hear her exasperated voice saying, ‘Why because.’ and I knew that was the time to stop – at least for a while. Nothing has changed. I am still asking questions. These days I know there are no specific answers but it can be fun exploring possibilities. Wis...
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    13,22 €

  • Facing Cancer
    Brenda Eldridge
    We were enjoying a blissful life, making the most of every day. I, the poet, was still rather bemused by the freedoms of retirement and Stephen was doing what he loves – publishing. Our idyll was rudely interrupted when we were told that Stephen had cancer. We were suddenly thrust into an unaccustomed world. This is not a horror story. Stephen relied on stoicism and determinati...
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    15,22 €

  • Wonderment
    Brenda Eldridge
    In his poem ‘The Road Not Taken’, Robert Frost writes of taking the road less travelled and this making all the difference. In ‘Leisure’, W.H. Davies writes, ‘What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare’. Both poems have strongly influenced how I have lived my life. In the past, I have said I write to make people think and with my passion I was hoping...
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    12,71 €

  • The Silver Cord
    Brenda Eldridge
    Everyone has a story. It would be foolish indeed to make comparisons, for there is always someone better or worse off than oneself. However, there is a comforting and healing sense of kinship with others who have had similar experiences. Even death, that, which we call the last act of our play, does not end a story. Everyone who has existed, no matter how briefly, affects someo...
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    16,18 €

  • From Patagonia to Australia
    Brenda Eldridge
    A collection of lively recollections about the author's life in Port Adelaide and travels through Australia, mixing warm humour with sharp observations. The author is an acclaimed poet and non-fiction writer, and editor of the Ginninderra Press Pocket Poets series. ...
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    21,48 €