Writing Well is a guide to expressive creative writing and effective professional prose. The author, a poet, writer, editor and teacher, explains the techniques required for stylish and readable writing. Everyone who wants to improve their writing can benefit from this book, which describes how to: • identify topics that inspire you to write • get into the habit of writing regularly • develop ideas • construct effective arguments • choose words for maximum effect • use grammar correctly • structure sentences and paragraphs appropriately • write with integrity The book is enriched by examples from great modern writers, and includes a variety of exercises and suggestions for writing activities. Mark Tredinnick practises what he preaches, making his book highly enjoyable as well as technically instructive.

Writing Well: The Essential Guide

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Tredinnick, Mark

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge University Press

Literature & Fiction

Australia's Wild Weather

National Library of Australia

The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral

Poetry

MILKWEED EDITIONS *

A Place on Earth is an anthology of nature writing, some of it classic, some of it new, from Australia and North America. It brings together essays by many of the finest nature writers of our time on both continents, and it introduces some rich new voices to this literature of place.Each essay brings to life a place that is special—sacred, even—to its author. This is a book of places—wild, lived in, grazed, fished in, explored, lost, and remembered. It is a lyric essay, in twenty-six voices, about what it means to live well on the land. It is a book of miraculous, ordinary places and of prose in which those places are alive. Here you will find desert and plateau, river and ice, city and farm, forest and grassland, man and woman, horse and bear, coyote and salmon, lyrebird and eagle, wind and rain, outback and seashore, sandstone and granite, she-oak and cottonwood, highland and lowland, harbor and wetland, ancient and modern, earth and sky, birth and death—just a few of the many compass points, the contour lines, the latitudes and longitudes of home.

A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from North America and Australia

Literary

Bison Books

What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, and where is your verb, and what is its tense, and where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it which and when is it that? In The Little Green Grammar Book, Mark Tredinnick asks and answers the tough grammar questions—big and small—with the same verve and authority readers encountered in The Little Red Writing Book. The Little Green Grammar Book does for grammar what The Little Red Writing Book did for style. It will have you writing like a writer in no time.

The Little Green Grammar Book

University of New South Wales Press

A Gathered Distance is a sustained and elegant lyric offering, weaving themes of loss and grief with transformation and beauty, which Chris Wallace-Crabbe describes as "a most subtle orchestration of loss". The collection speaks to our shared experiences of connection and separation; the complex dynamics of family and parenthood. In a time of ecological crisis, Mark's work affirms the value of "lyric resistance", poetry's mysterious way of making sense of things: 
"When profound human emotion can recruit the lyric, the personal can become the human, the particular the archetypal. And a collapse of self can become a gathering of distances, a habitat of healing." - Mark Tredinnick. 
From the title poem: 
"...Be a garden in a city, 
And be all the love you've lost. From all the unpropitious 
Pieces tending toward a self, cultivate a solitude, harvest half\nA life and make it whole. Gather all your distances, and 
father all your orphan fears; hold them 
Near, as a father might..."

A Gathered Distance: Poems

Birdfish Books

What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, and where is your verb, and what is its tense, and where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it which and when is it that? In The Little Green Grammar Book, Mark Tredinnick as...

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Located in the Blue Mountains southwest of Sydney, the Blue Plateau is a contrary collection of canyons and creeks, cow paddocks and eucalyptus forests, the first people and ranchers. This book reveals the plateau through its inhabitants: the Gundungurra people who were there first and still remain; the Maxwell family, who tried, but failed, to tame the land; the affable, impoverished, often drunken ranchers and firefighters; and the author himself, a poet trying to insinuate his citified self into a rugged landscape defined by drought, fire, and scarcity. Like the works of Peter Mathiessen, Barry Lopez, and William Least Heat-Moon, The Blue Plateau is a deep examination of place that transcends genre, incorporating poetry, people’s history, ecology, mythology, and memoir to reveal how humanity and nature intertwine to create a home. Elegiac and intimately composed, this vivid portrait of a rugged wilds expands readers’ sense of the place they call home.

At the heart of The Land's Wild Music is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place — Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin — author Mark Tredinnick considers how writers transmute the power of nature into words. Each author is profiled in a separate chapter written in rich, engaging prose that reads like the best journalism, and Tredinnick concludes with his own thoughts on what it takes to be "an authentic witness of place."

The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin

Religion & Spirituality

Trinity University Press

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Writing Well: The Essential Guide

Writing Well: The Essential Guide

Australia's Wild Weather

The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral

A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from North America and Australia

The Little Green Grammar Book

A Gathered Distance: Poems

The Little Green Grammar Book

The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral

The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin