Joe Dolce Cooks

Joe Dolce is popularly known for the phenomenal international hit record of the 80s, Shaddap You Face, which was Number One in 12 countries, with hundreds of foreign language cover versions, including versions in the Western Australian aboriginal dialect of Indjibundgi and Papua New Guinean pidgin.

He has also been doing some serious cooking!

He was a featured guest, in 2005, on Lifestyle Cafe, on The Lifestyle Channel, preparing Turkish gözleme, and won first place in the 2007 Hepburn Springs-Daylesford Swiss-Italian Festival Best Pasta Sauce Competition, for a Basil-Chili Tomato Sauce, with Guanciale, Fennel Sausage & Kangaroo Braciole.

He was shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Photography: Photographer of the Year and he took the enticing food photographs for this cookbook.

For as Apicius once said:

‘The first taste is always with the eyes.’

Dolce Cooks At Home: Joe Dolce’s Most Loved Recipes is his first cookbook, compiled from over fifty years of home-cooking. Many of the recipes are from his Italian-American childhood but even more are from the stunning dishes of world cuisine that have influenced him over the years.

Inside you will find his grandmother’s Spaghetti and Meatballs, next to Indonesian Sop Buntut, North Vietnamese Bún Chả, Ethiopian Roast Lamb with 15 Berbere Spices, the National tri-coloured dish of Mexico: Chiles en Nogada, and American Soul Food brilliancies such as BBQ Ribs, Fried Green Tomatoes and Red Velvet Cake.

At the Noisy Cafe

Haiku and Hiccups

Kaplijice

Story Lines: Stories and Poems 2022

A Little Life Happy

Mellifluous

The Cosmic Connection

Fler Beaumont

Story Lines: Stories and Poems 2021

If we should ever meet again

The poetry in Richard Trembath’s If We Should Ever Meet Again cannot be described as modern or classical but where its difference lies is that it will appeal to and be understood by the common man.

This collection is wide-ranging and explores life, love, philosophy and much more, as did his two previous volumes of poetry and short stories. 

The stories provide a contrast in that some are fiction, some are based on true life events and some are drawn from Trembath’s forty years as a newspaper journalist.

Readers will be able to identify with many of the sentiments expressed, which cover a wide range of examples of the human condition, from deep emotion through to humour.

Several of Trembath’s stories have won awards for literary excellence while his poetry has had wide exposure on radio and television and in the print media.

If We Should Ever Meet Again differs from most collections of verse. Its straightforward approach to life as we all know it justifies it being classified as

THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE

JOAN’S TREASURE TROVE OF POEMS

Joan’s poetry and her attachment to the world around her can inspire one to listen to clouds, hear sunlight, taste lived places, remember the earth and imagine nature’s truth. Joan’s touching poetry swings beautifully between a nurturing soul and a love affair with language. I find Joan’s poetry a beautiful bond of eye and word.

And the Moon still shines

Witten during 2020

when everything changed.

And many things may never

 be the same again — ever.

We have been forced to dig deep

to find our positive core values.

In these pages find Hope, 

Joy, Comfort and Strength

to live in a time of disruption.

I hope these poems will inspire 

you to discover your inner strength

to live through these challenging times.

The Eternal Door

Iconic Dreams

Times and Seasons

He is coming soon

Readings from the Courthouse

Who Knows

How high is the sky?

Through fun, rhythm and rhyme the author has captured the wonder of childhood. These poems will fascinate children and evoke nostalgia in 

adults, especially when read aloud.

Through fun, rhythm and rhyme the author has captured the wonder of childhood. These poems will fascinate children and evoke nostalgia in 

adults, especially when read aloud.

Honey and heartbreak

Her, me and the tree

Watch this space

Hello Titty

BREATHING ON SKIN

GOOSEBUMPS

BACK BONES

HOT COLD SWEAT

TONGUE

CHEEK

EYES

CHEST

LEGS

HAIR

INSIDE

BETWEEN

HOT

HEAT

HEAVY

BREATHE

BREATHING ON SKIN

GOOSEBUMPS

BACK BONES

HOT COLD SWEAT

TONGUE

CHEEK

EYES

CHEST

LEGS

HAIR

INSIDE

BETWEEN

HOT

HEAT

HEAVY

BREATHE

the effects of dry chamomile

Pathways

The paths we travel in our search for our true selves: we have all experienced those moments of crystal clarity, when everything made perfect sense and we felt one with the universe. We seek to recapture this meaning and purpose in our life.

I hope these poems will be guideposts along your way to help you reconnect to the spiritual essence of your true self.

The paths we travel in our search for our true selves: we have all experienced those moments of crystal clarity, when everything made perfect sense and we felt one with the universe. We seek to recapture this meaning and purpose in our life.

I hope these poems will be guideposts along your way to help you reconnect to the spiritual essence of your true self.

Angel’s weep and other Poems

Swim in the tears of the poet and be transported to the secret places where beauty dwells, the raw emotion of grief, losing love and finding it again.

Contemplate the vastness of the Universe, the mystery of life and death and know that these poems have been waiting for years to be written for you to enjoy.

Swim in the tears of the poet and be transported to the secret places where beauty dwells, the raw emotion of grief, losing love and finding it again.

Contemplate the vastness of the Universe, the mystery of life and death and know that these poems have been waiting for years to be written for you to enjoy.

A Half-Baked Fruitcake of Nuts and Nonsense

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous : A Collection of Poetry

Unstill Mosaics

Just Walk With Me

Gay Miller

The Secret Smile

Gay Miller

In the Company of Strangers

Richard Trembath

The Voyages of the Boy from Ginostra

Marcello D’Amico

Awakening Around Roses

Michelle Endersby