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CELEBRATE ART: Ivor Hele, the productive artist
This week, discover the work of Ivor Hele, an artist of extraordinary discipline and power. He was enormously prolific and completed more commissioned works than any other artist in the history of Australian art.
Ivor Hele: The productive artist by Jane Hylton, curator and author, is a beautiful portrait of an artist, focusing on his life, his work, and his legacy.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘When she washes her hair’ by Steve Brock
This week, we shine the spotlight on Steve Brock’s poetry collection, Live at Mr Jake’s.
Relaxed and laconic, Live at Mr Jake’s riffs on a mix of highbrow and popular culture references. Accessible yet literary, this collection celebrates a diversity of voices from Australia and beyond. Spanning four continents, the poems are equally at home in the front bar as they are on the literary trail in Paris or San Francisco. Cool and understated, Brock surfs the cultural interstices of the Latin American influences on his life and work to create a poetic vision transpacific in scope.
Wakefield acquires YA novel from critically acclaimed Adelaide author Allayne Webster
We’re delighted to officially announce the acquisition of world rights to Allayne Webster’s young adult fiction novel, That Thing I Did, which Wakefield Press will publish in March 2022.
That Thing I Did is a rollicking road trip with a serious core, exploring issues like the dark side of social media use, teen sexuality and consent, superficiality and authenticity, mental health and friendship.
HIDDEN HISTORIES: Medieval recipes for today with food historian Barbara Santich
In this second installment of Hidden Histories, we are traveling back in time to discover The Original Mediterranean Cuisine and delve into the recipes (and food culture) of medieval times.
Acclaimed culinary historian Barbara Santich tells the story of authentic medieval Mediterranean food, and brings to the table recipes translated and adapted for modern kitchens from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian and Catalan manuscripts.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Blessing’ by Helen Parsons
This week, we shine the poetry spotlight on Helen Parsons’ new collection, The Feeling of Bigness: Encountering Georgia O’Keeffe. The sonnets in the collection draw inspiration from Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and life, and her love for the big open spaces – the ‘feeling of bigness’ – that New Mexico offered her.
CELEBRATE ART: Tom Moore: Abundant wonder
The glass figures contained within the new book Tom Moore are sometimes sweet, occasionally unsettling, always surreal. To flip through these pages is to sink into dreams, imagination and childhood. Adelaide glass artist Tom Moore’s work is truly a delight for the eyes and heart.
Tom Moore is one of Australia’s leading glass artists. Over his career he has carved out a singular voice within Australian glass art making. His engaging, sophisticated and technically challenging hybridised animal/plant sculptures – and the fantastical worlds they inhabit – are embedded in the history of glassmaking and scientific discovery. His artworks are disarmingly playful in their use of narrative to critique the pressing social and environmental concerns of our contemporary epoch.
HIDDEN HISTORIES: Ivan Polyukhvoich’s case to answer
In the first instalment of our new series, Hidden Histories, intern Reem Ernst, recent Law graduate, takes a look at the shocking trial of Ivan Polyukhovich in Adelaide in 1990.
Written by journalist David Bevan, and based on his observations as a court reporter, court transcripts and witness statements,.A Case to Answer serves as a record of an astounding case in legal history both in Australia and the world.
Four contributors chosen from national competition to join all-star Australian YA horror anthology … just in time for Halloween!
Four stories chosen from a competitive national open call-out will join some of Australia’s most celebrated YA authors for Hometown Haunts, a YA horror anthology published by Wakefield Press and funded by the Australia Council’s 2020 Resilience Fund – Create.
POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘This Poem Doesn’t Rhyme’ by Kristin Martin
This week’s poetry highlight is on the gorgeous South Australian children’s poetry book, To Rhyme Or Not To Rhyme? With poems written by Kristin Martin and illustrations by Joanne Knott, this kid’s poetry collection is charming and fun.
Poems truly are all around us, and in this collection Kristin shares her love of nature and sense of fun on every page. Joanne’s exquisite illustrations bring the animals and natural environment to magical life.