Threading Raindrops

By Michele Fermanis-Winward

'In Threading Raindrops, Michele Fermanis-Winward has fashioned an associative landscape full of the conflicts of the human heart and mind. The reader is buoyed by the honesty and integrity, the gentle ruefulness of this poet's generous observations. The necklace is a perfect symbol for this collection of clear and lovely poems - the thread on whic

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Feb 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781740279055

Michele Fermanis-Winward

Michele Fermanis-Winward lives and works on the unceded lands of the Yaluk-ut Weelam of the Boon Wurrung and the Darug and Gundungurra people. She pays respect to these traditional owners and to elders past and present.

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Threading Raindrops

Threading Raindrops

Michele Fermanis-Winward

Ginninderra Press

Threading Raindrops

ISBN 978 1 74027 905 5

Copyright © Michele Fermanis-Winward 2015

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First published 2015 by

Ginninderra Press PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

www.ginninderrapress.com.au

Acknowledgements

I thank Deb Westbury for her generous mentoring and editorial skills; the Siding Poets and Writers, Vanessa Kirkpatrick, Brendan Doyle, Kathy Hale, Emma Brazil, Tom Williams and John Lekkas, for their friendship and advice, creating an environment where this book could be realised; Brown’s Siding Café at Medlow Bath for their hospitality; Kathy Gerontakos and Paul Thiering for continued wise counsel; and Hannah Terkes and James Paull at Gleebooks, Blackheath, for their encouragement and enthusiasm for the written word.

With love and gratitude to my friends and family for their unstinting love and support; they inspired many of the poems in this collection.

Poems in this collection