New Guide to Poetry and Poetics opens with analyses of the elemental forces of creativity: the creative impulse, the creative imagination and the sacred impulse. The book then describes in detail how a poet's voice and vision are formed and sometimes reformed in the course of a career, and it establishes the real nature of rhythm and music in poetry. Problematic areas - inspiration, meaning, reality, myth and mystery in poetry - are fully explored in discourses that identify the true properties of poetry, dispel several misconceptions and expose inadequacies in current literary theory. The...

YES, MISS GIBSON offers a nostalgic journey back to the 1950s when radio drama dominated Australia's age of innocence. What emerges is a rare social and media history, and an engaging look into the bustling radio industry of a lost era.
Grace Gibson's life could well have come from the script of one of her own serials. Born in El Paso, her father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, her mother Mexican. Arriving in Sydney from Hollywood in the 1930s, she soon became the highest-paid woman in local radio. She produced some of Australia's most-loved radio shows: Dr Paul, Portia Faces Life,...

Radio drama is often called the "theatre of the mind," wherein a listener's imagination is stimulated by voices, sounds, and music to create mental imagery as real as any bricks-and-mortar theatre. Reg James spent a lifetime in the thick of Australian radio drama. Rising through the ranks at Grace Gibson Radio Productions - from despatch boy to general manager - he takes us behind the scenes into the fascinating world of broadcasting from the 1930s to the present day. The great shows, the magic voices, the pure drama of putting shows to air - Reg shares his secrets and stories in this amazing...