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“brenda eldridge”

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  • Golden Days

    by Brenda Eldridge, Stephen Matthews ...
    Brenda Eldridge's Golden Days navigates a gentle way through the journey of her husband Stephen Matthews'fight with cancer and his choice to take the path of Voluntary Assisted Dying. In Brenda's poem, 'Silver Light',she writes:I tease him about becoming a butterflyI want so much for him to be free.Brenda's glorious and confronting poems explore a couple's descent into illness; the helplessness ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Simple Pleasures

    by 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 believe in anything. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sounds & Silences

    by 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 my mental image or ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Dancing Dots

    by 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 saying something similar, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Stepping into the Blue

    by 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 experience more. In ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Silver Cord

    by 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 someone else for the rest ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • Liminal

    by 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. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Facing Cancer

    by 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 determination to get through. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Wonderment

    by 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 to make people more ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • From Patagonia to Australia

    Collected Prose

    by 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. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Homespun Tapestry

    by 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. Wise woman or ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Join this enthusiastic angler as he takes witty and soft hearted look back at the moment he finally overcome his biggest stumbling block; his first ever pike! With humour, modesty and the ability to poke fun at his own limitations, the author takes you into his world and frees you up to feel proud of your own angling achievments- great or small. ... Read more

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