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The Butterfly Effect
Spinifex Press 2006; US$ 12.95The flap of a butterfly's wing in one part of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side, just as the word "lesbian"?a force full of vitality and world-changing creativity?can destroy families and bring down governments. Evoking the ancient worlds of pre-Vedic and Sapphic lovers, medieval jonglaresas , and nuns "fingering petals and... more...
The Falling Woman
Spinifex Press 2006; US$ 12.95One woman's journey into the heart's landscape is mirrored by a haunting desert odyssey in this novel told in three voices?Stella, Estella, and Estelle. The narration follows Stella from birth to age 29 as she confronts epilepsy, death, and lesbianism; Estella as she confronts the Australian desert and the metaphoric edge of her consciousness with... more...
The Spinifex Quiz Book
Spinifex Press 1993; US$ 9.95Who invented hieroglyphics? Who did Einstein?s mathematics? Who led the defence of Viet Nam in 40 AD? Who invented the first computer? Who built the pyramid at Giza? Who developed the merino sheep? Who was the first writer in the world? Who invented the wheel? All were women. When the next person asks: Where are all the famous women artists/inventors/architects/writers/scientists??this... more...
Wild Politics
Spinifex Press 2004; US$ 16.95The personal and the political, the local and the global?divergent perspectives are synthesized in this visionary examination of globalization and how it affects individual lives. Personal stories of urban and rural living reveal the many varieties of experience and how Western culture has created both immense wealth and poverty. Discussions of primary... more...
Bird
Spinifex Press 1999; US$ 9.95Birds don?t fly with leads, says thirteen-year-old Avis when confronted by the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she loves most. Susan Hawthorne captures the voice and longings of a child at the edge of self-realisation. This collection draws on the experience... more...
Earth's Breath
Spinifex Press 2009; US$ 12.95Situated between the realms of the real and the fantastic, this collection of eco-poetry relays the ferocious power and long-lasting effects of extreme weather events such as cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons. Exploring the period before, during, and after a cyclone?s arrival, these emotionally charged poems travel from trampled forests and torn... more...
Cow
Spinifex Press 2011; US$ 14.99An intriguing approach to the rewriting of myth, this poetry collection journeys through the history of languages and symbolic traditions. Through main character Queenie, a cow of many abilities, these poems delve into the creation of the universe as Queenie fashions the galaxies and travels through the sky as a herd of stars. Delightful and surprising,... more...
Valence
Spinifex Press 2012; US$ 5.99Valence in chemistry, the number of bonds in an element?s atom in linguistics, the number of arguments controlled by a verbal predicate in psychology, the emotional charge something has In this remarkable annotated poem, Susan Hawthorne commits to words the horrors of war that have been left unspoken. She shatters... more...
Unsettling the Land
Spinifex Press 2008; US$ 7.95Unsettling the Land is a relection on the plight of the land in drought-stricken times, conjuring through both text and illustration, the complex relationships that create and sustain our unique Australian landscape in all its majesty, tranquility, and its present suffering. more...
CyberFeminism
Spinifex Press 1999; US$ 13.95An international anthology by feminists working in the fields of electronic publishing, activism, data delivery, multimedia games production, educational multimedia, the virtual campus and virtual reality creation, program development and electronic product, as well as those developing critiques of electronic culture, this collection explores what... more...









