POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Going Home’ by Geoff Goodfellow

Posted on 11 December 2020 by Maddy Sexton

This week’s poetry spotlight shines once again on Australian literary icon Geoff Goodfellow, whose most recent release, Out of Copley Street, received glowing endorsements from Tim Winton and Helen Garner.

‘A rollicking slice of an unlikely life. Watch young Geoff find poetry – and a few scraps of wisdom – the hard way. Ears up, chest out, flat-chat, punching on and wising up.’ – Tim Winton

‘A dry, sparkling clarity, a pure tone that hovers on the edge of laughter: these stories are a revelation.’ – Helen Garner

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CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Our top staff picks for Christmas

Posted on 9 December 2020 by Maddy Sexton

Even in a year like 2020, where it seems that every possible chance for fun is cancelled before it can begin, Christmas prevails. Exciting for all, of course, but what do you get for your teen sister-in-law? Your friend who loves travel and history? Your (checks notes) yoga teacher? Read on to find out …

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CELEBRATE ART: Ivor Hele, the productive artist

Posted on 2 December 2020 by Poppy Nwosu

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.

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POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘When she washes her hair’ by Steve Brock

Posted on 27 November 2020 by Poppy Nwosu

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.

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Wakefield acquires YA novel from critically acclaimed Adelaide author Allayne Webster

Posted on 25 November 2020 by Poppy Nwosu

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.

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HIDDEN HISTORIES: Medieval recipes for today with food historian Barbara Santich

Posted on 17 November 2020 by Poppy Nwosu

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.

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POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘Blessing’ by Helen Parsons

Posted on 13 November 2020 by Maddy Sexton

Feeling of Bigness, 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.

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CELEBRATE ART: Tom Moore: Abundant wonder

Posted on 12 November 2020 by Poppy Nwosu

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.

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HIDDEN HISTORIES: Ivan Polyukhvoich’s case to answer

Posted on 4 November 2020 by Maddy Sexton

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.

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Four contributors chosen from national competition to join all-star Australian YA horror anthology … just in time for Halloween!

Posted on 28 October 2020 by Poppy Nwosu

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.

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