Pulse | Peter Knight
Cover Design and Typesetting by Rack & Rune Pulse is a miscellany of 29 poems, eclectic in subject matter and not overly constrained by reality’s parameters. Expressed quite simply and intelligibly, the poems are largely narratives focussed on forms of a life force, the pulse that drives the body of the human world. That pulse is […]
Chords in the Soundscapes | Michael J Leach
Cover Design and Typesetting by Rack & Rune Chords in the Soundscapes is a full-length collection of nonfiction poetry about sounds and emotions.This collection is divided into two interrelated sections: ‘The Science of Music’, which focuses more on the technical side of music and sounds more generally, and ‘Love Notes’, which focuses more on emotions […]
Ring the Bells | Colleen Keating
Cover Design and Typesetting by Rack & Rune Ring the Bells is a collection of new poetry with an invitation to hear each poem as a bell chime embracing light, dark, life and love – cyclic like the seasons. In Ring the Bells, award-winning poet Colleen Keating invites readers to listen closely — to the […]
letters to dead artists | Faridah Cameron
Typesetting by Rack & Rune Art has the capacity to speak to us across time and space. In these eleven letters the writer sets out to reply. Some of the artists she addresses lived long ago and far away, others overlapped her own lifetime and experience. Remembering encounters with their work, her unguarded thoughts lead […]
Climbing Trees | Beverley Campbell
Cover design and typesetting by Rack & Rune Set against the backdrop of war-torn Rhodesia, Climbing Trees is a haunting and heartfelt memoir where innocence is fragile, and family ties are as complex as the political turmoil unfolding around them. Growing up on a beloved family farm surrounded by her maternal relatives and an adored grandfather, […]
Lady MacGyver | Michelle Huntington
Cover design and typesetting by Rack & Rune From the cockpit of a Boeing 737 to the sun-kissed shores of Kiribati, Lady MacGyver is a remarkable memoir of grit, courage, and sky-high ambition. Captain Michelle Huntington’s dream of flight took root at the age of seven—and, against all odds, she became one of just 500 […]
Passage of Bees | Michele Fermanis-Winward
Cover design and typesetting by Rack & Rune This collection reflects on three heartlands: a woodland sanctuary in the Blue Mountains, Melbourne’s St Kilda by the bay, and Port Macquarie’s ocean beaches. The Blue Mountains, sheltered by silver-top eucalypts, witness a decline in wildlife due to habitat loss. In St Kilda, the author observes the […]
Harbour in Me | Therese Corfiatis
Cover design and typesetting by Rack & Rune In this captivating collection, Larry Boyd explores the complexities of love and loss through 16 short stories. From a couple debating parenthood to four women in wheelchairs creating a play about reproductive rights, Boyd delves into human emotions with sensitivity. His tales also feature a CEO’s confrontation […]
Delights and Disappointments | Larry Boyd
Cover design and typesetting by Rack & Rune In this captivating collection, Larry Boyd explores the complexities of love and loss through 16 short stories. From a couple debating parenthood to four women in wheelchairs creating a play about reproductive rights, Boyd delves into human emotions with sensitivity. His tales also feature a CEO’s confrontation […]
Foreign Attachments | Roslyn McFarlane
Cover design and typesetting by Rack & Rune In this beautifully constructed Russian doll of a novel two Australian women leave their homeland in search of a room of their own in which to forge their art. Stella Bowen studies painting in London where she meets among other literati wild Ezra Pound and the bearlike […]