A Place to Breathe: Poems and images from Tasmania by Stephen Falconer | PBA Place to Breathe: Poems and Images from Tasmania is a jewel. It is aptly laconic, almost sparse, with observations both personal and universal. Falconer captures the rural and isolated frugality that is part of the beauty of his homeland which he clearly loves. Dr Dain Bolwell, 2023 (Author of Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth) Stephen Falconers poetry burst like a blazing light on my poetic horizon from the first time

An un-put-downable tale flows effortlessly from Geoff Harwood’s pen

The ten best entries from the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2024 as selected by Claire van Ryn

This DVD follows in the wake of the old piners - the men who logged the Huon pine - and is enriched by interviews whose content dates back to the 1930s

Self-sufficiency was vital

But this news has given writers and bibliophiles something tangible to celebrate: we now have international recognition of Tasmania’s world-class literary landscape

to photograph its blackened corpse

as his life drew to a close

Peter Gillett

But they’re actually more similar than you might realise

The book concludes with an information page where children can learn about Tasmania’s threatened species and how to learn from our past to better care for our precious wildlife

Sinking Stations is a son’s story of his father’s life during the Great Depression and as a sailor in the Navy in World War II

historic images