Collected Poems

So much of Wright’s work I love, both poetry and prose and yet her Collected Poemsseem to encapsulate so much of her radiant spirit and poetic sensibility.

Corvus: A Life with Birds

A book I’d love to give all my friends. It is more than a book about and with birds, it’s about being human and being connected to life in all its forms.

Breath: A Novel

A powerful, authentic writer with a huge following in Australia and overseas. Blueback is special for me and for many kids and kids at heart. Breath remains my favorite because I love the sea and have always wanted to surf – this takes me in as a voyeur if not a wave-rider.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

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Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape The Open Space of Democracy

A writer of immense spiritual depth as she traverses territory not often explored by others. Start anywhere.

Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor

A book as relevant today as when I first read it. I hope it is read and reclaimed by a new generation of young feminists.

Kaddish

My close friend, Kate, gave me this book one birthday and it remains as precious to me as when she first gifted it. This story is of a man whose father dies and he reclaims the power of Kaddish and of his own Jewish heritage, saying Kaddish for the first year after his father dies, as is tradition.

Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

I was moved by Wheatley’s intelligence in fusing the scholarship of leadership and science in this book. Its unity and purpose was so helpful to me when I read it and I’m excited to soon be attending one of her workshops many years after first reading this book.

Nature, Man and Woman

I still have my tattered early paperback edition of this book. What a revelation! It’s earthy and sensual, a rare and delicious read.

The Dawn is At Hand

Walker later reclaimed her indigenous heritage in the renaming of herself Oodjeroo of the tribe Noonuccal. This a stunning book of poetry speaks to her experience of land, people and self as an Aboriginal woman.

The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

In the company of Starhawk and others, a kaleidoscopic dive into the power and mystery of women’s natures and lives.