Julie Thorndyke Julie Thorndyke i(A85891 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Alice’s Shoe Julie Thorndyke , Jennifer Harrison (illustrator), Adelaide : MidnightSun , 2023 26024641 2023 single work picture book children's 'A country child, Alice ran barefoot. On smooth waxed floorboards, over dusty clay in the yard, through icy water in the creek...she refused to wear shoes. After losing her sight and hearing through illness, Alice slowly made her way back to life and became the first deafblind person in Australia to be educated. Her hated shoe was Alice’s first connection with the world of language as she learnt to sign.' (Publication summary) 
1 y separately published work icon Borrowed Riches Julie Thorndyke , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2022 25498100 2022 selected work poetry

''Borrowed Riches is an apt title for this fine collection of 100 short lyrics composed by an experienced and skilful poet. With her deft usage of the traditional Japanese tanka form, Julie Thorndyke presents to the reader a range of thoroughly modern, yet universal, emotions expressed in poetry. The centrality of family, human relationships and love is a recurring motif. There are also descriptive pieces featuring birds and flowers, poems about Julie as an author and editor, introspective writing, romance, and nostalgia. A rich array of tanka indeed. And one which is not without some gentle humour. Bravo!' - Amelia Fielden, poet and translator

''With the eye and heart of a poet and her own personal experience, Julie Thorndyke gifts us 100 tanka with universal themes including love, loss, and life - often in the exquisite frame of nature, blooming with birds, trees, flowers, the moon. When tanka are holistic, palpable, and redemptive, you find soul touching moments for the journey. In Borrowed Riches we have a new book to read unhurriedly, that will challenge, affirm, reassure and give us those moments.' - Colleen Keating

''To open the pages of Borrowed Riches is to enter a calm and contemplative world. Julie Thorndyke's keen observations of nature strike a deep chord and her insight into the nature of time and relationships is profound. This tanka collection is an important addition to any bookshelf.' - Vanessa Proctor' (Publication summary)

1 Bimbilla Julie Thorndyke , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: School Magazine. Orbit , May vol. 106 no. 4 2021; (p. 28)
1 y separately published work icon Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal Julie Thorndyke (editor), 2021 26144895 2021 periodical issue poetry
1 y separately published work icon Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal no. 30 Julie Thorndyke (editor), 2021 26142714 2021 periodical issue poetry
1 y separately published work icon Divertimento Julie Thorndyke , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2021 21474105 2021 selected work short story

'Survival, desire, disaster; misadventure, murder and magic combine in this unique collection of tales set in locations including old rural Australia, present-day cities and the distant mystical past. Twenty-seven short stories from renowned Australian fiction writer and poet Julie Thorndyke will take you on tantalising journeys in the company of artists and musicians, mothers and daughters, writers and lovers. as they make brave, desperate and audacious life choices. Earthquake, flood, fire; stolen babies and lost children; homelessness and betrayal; ghosts, mysteries and dreams - each story follows the journey of a richly imagined character as they act out their unique answer to the question 'What if?' Divertimento offers a chance to step briefly into the shoes of each protagonist and discover how it feels to love, steal, murder...and live to tell the tale.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal no. 28 Julie Thorndyke (editor), 2020 26140843 2020 periodical issue poetry
1 y separately published work icon Splash, Slither, Squawk! Michele Bomford (editor), Julie Thorndyke (editor), Sydney : Society of Women Writers, New South Wales Branch , 2020 23485444 2020 anthology poetry short story children's

'Wombats, platypus, turtles, magpies, koalas, goannas, cockatoos, bilbies, kangaroos, banksias, flannel flowers, bushfire, rain, ferns, snails, spiders, glow worms, pelicans, flying foxes, cicadas, lyrebirds, butterflies, possums, owls, kookaburras . . .

'In this varied collection, poems and stories about bushfire and resilience, surprising encounters with native wildlife, information about the natural world, together with articles about endangered species are complemented with drawings by young artists living in NSW.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Watching through the Day Julie Thorndyke , Nandina Vines (illustrator), Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2020 23459785 2020 single work picture book children's

'Soldier crabs running…
'Pippis wiggling…
'Jellyfish floating…
'Pelicans gliding…

'These are just some of the things you can photograph when you’re out and about during the day.

'What photos of native creatures have you taken lately?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Spirit Mother i "The dingo who visits", Julie Thorndyke , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , September no. 7 2020;
1 The Seven (St)ages of Outrage i "innocence damaged -", Julie Thorndyke , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: I Protest! Poems of Dissent 2020; (p. 126)
1 This Little House is Made of Sticks Julie Thorndyke , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Verity La , April 2020;
1 y separately published work icon Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal no. 27 Julie Thorndyke (editor), 2019 26138311 2019 periodical issue poetry
1 y separately published work icon Eucalypt : A Tanka Journal no. 26 Julie Thorndyke (editor), 2019 26136572 2019 periodical issue poetry
1 How to Move Meenhi i "Touch her, says the Wind. Bother her with sleek caresses,", Julie Thorndyke , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mountain Secrets 2019; (p. 29)
1 August i "Wind roars up the valley", Julie Thorndyke , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 7 no. 2 2019;
1 y separately published work icon Mrs Rickaby’s Lullaby Julie Thorndyke , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2019 15963997 2019 single work novel crime

'Mrs Eileen Rickaby, a semi-retired botanical illustrator and Orchid Society member with a penchant for Mozart, lives a quiet ordered life with Missy, her cat. Her tranquillity is disturbed when close friend and neighbour Irene brings home a twice-widowed younger man of dubious character, and introduces him as her future husband. Petty theft, vandalism and violence disrupt the peaceful retirement village. How can Mrs Rickaby protect her friend from this con-man lover? Mrs Rickaby’s Lullaby is an engaging novel of haunting lyricism and gentle humour, exploring the timeless themes of love, loss and widowhood, friendship and belonging.'   (Publication summary)

1 As Summers Come i "Last day of spring", Julie Thorndyke , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Wild 2018; (p. 143)
1 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Night Julie Thorndyke , Anna Seed (illustrator), Carindale : IP Kidz , 2018 14228362 2018 single work picture book children's

'A journey from sunset to dusk, this poetic picture book provides beautiful images of Australian animals preparing for night, against a background of lavishly detailed flora.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Vinegar Hill Julie Thorndyke , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Just Off Message : A 20th Year Anthology 2017; (p. 247)
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