AustLit

'Rees Campbell is a proud and passionate Tasmanian woman who is inspired by the island she was lucky enough to be born on, and writes about the extraordinary people, places, creatures and plants she shares it with. Love in all its seasons and place in all its intricacies are the arteries that drive Rees’s poems.

‘Rees Campbell: the Feisty Tasmanian - she sure is that when it comes to her emotionally charged poetry. As delightfully untamed as her Wild Food Garden in Wynyard, Tasmania; raw and challenging as the wind whipping up from Bass Strait, to soft and gentle as the morning sun in spring kissing the dewdrops on newly formed buds.’ - Evie Wood, Tasmanian Poetry Festival Director, 2019'

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'Twenty-four highly-commended erotic tales are presented in this anthology for your entertainment. Selected from over eighty entries in the fourth Stringybark Erotic Fiction Awards these clever and arousing stories are certain to warm up your love life. Share them with a friend or settle down in some fluffy pillows and enjoy them yourself.' (Publication summary)

This evocative story is of a young girl growing up within an affluent middle class Australian family. But it is also a story shared by so many who need to overcome the violence and power wielded within the home.

Unravelling and exposing the secrets behind the weatherboard walls and venetian blinds of the ordinary family, the life of a girl and the woman she becomes is explored. This extraordinarily open tale will shock and sadden, but in blending the past and the present also portrays the positive power of love and survival.

The Legacy uncovers the origins, the impact and the ways the patchwork pieces of memory and perception gathered from childhood, through mothering and onto reflection shape our own distinct quilts.