Stonewood Press: 4 books

Dad’s slideshow is a sequence charting a family’s ancestry over a lifetime. Di Slaney’s deft and evocative poems are testimony to what survives long after the events recorded in a family album. She writes movingly about relationships, tracing links to the past which inform our understanding of the present.

Small Grass is an environmental poem in the female voice of grass, spoken in idioms as varied as the many different types of grass. She witnesses the world, and records its evolution through her relationships with the creatures with which she shares the planet; in particular her complex engagement with humankind.

Krishan Coupland’s first collection of short stories 'When You Lived Inside The Walls and Other Stories' is at once dark and tender, mundane and extraordinary. The stories here speak of strange realities where a child takes to living in the walls with the friends who love her, and a young man preserves...

A beautiful young woman walks into Hoad’s gallery to admire a jade vase, and Hoad's life changes forever; Ray watches an insurmountable horror take place and wreaks simple and profound revenge; after her paraplegic father dies, a middle-aged woman finds herself in a solicitor’s office, cataloguing...