***Shortlisted for the 2024 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards for Nonfiction***
Louise Omer was a Pentecostal preacher and faithful wife. But when her marriage crumbled, so did her beliefs.
Haunted by questions about what it means to be female in a religion that worships a male God, she left behind a church and home to ask women around the world: how can we exist in patriarchal religion? And can a woman be holy?
With $500 in her pocket and the conviction that she was following a divine path, Louise began a pilgrimage that has taken her to Mexican basilicas, Swedish cathedrals, Bulgarian mountains, and Moroccan mosques. Holy Woman combines travel writing, feminist theology, and confessional memoir to interrogate modern religion and give a raw and personal exploration of spiritual life under patriarchy.
Many of us gain inspiration, solace, beauty and a sense of wonder from our interactions with nature, and writers have long plumbed and explored these depths.
At the same time as many of us tune in to natural landscapes, our environment is imperilled as never before.
We are in the midst of a climate emergency that is challenging the future of our species, and all living creatures we share the earth with.
This unique collection of Australia’s best new nature writing gathers together some of our most widely known and most original voices to reflect on our relationship with nature.
These pieces, by turns compelling, urgent, poignant and passionate, offer an insight into the wonder of the natural world around us, and form a clarion call for its protection.
With an introduction from Dave Witty, and featuring contributors including Tim Winton, Inga Simpson and Louise Omer, this collection makes the perfect holiday read or gift for the nature-lover in your life.
Romance Options is a major new anthology of contemporary love poems, the result of an open call to Irish and Ireland-based poets to consider the realities of our romantic, emotional and intimate lives today. Contributors include both well-known and established poets as well as a large number of up-and-coming voices, reflecting the diversity of a vibrant literary scene and a society in which difference is something to be embraced and celebrated.