Poetry you can taste... Bread and Purposes by Barbara M. Lipple.   ... To taste indecision is like eating the white of a boiled egg - without salt or pepper           Delay "Sometimes a poem will appeal to the ear, or eye. It is rare to be able to taste a poem."                                                                                                Wendy Duffy   I read Bread and Purposes straight away, from cover to cover. It has a freshness and wit and the rich personality of true poetry.                                                                                                               Professor James R. Lawler   "Barbara Lipple is a poet of pilgrimage. Bread and Purposes is book of poems which traces the contours of a heart set on the need to risk a journey into spiritual health and truth".                                                                              Wayne K'Noll   "Barbara Lipple's response to the world is heartfelt. It is exciting to read her work; her responses are powerful ... you can enjoy the freshness of a new way of looking at familiar subjects. This is strong writing, beautifully crafted, a confident structural use of rhythm and assonance and rhyme combined with a delightful playfulness of language."                                                                            Sue Polites, Studio

and poetry to hear  ...                             Bread and Purposes Aloud (CD and cassette), recorded by 4 readers; includes one poem set to music by singer-songwriter Fay White. Produced by Erik Kowarski with musical interludes.  "Reading poetry is one thing. Hearing it read is another. Read in the author's voice we pick up an inflection, a joy, a wonder which we quite often miss when just "seeing" the words. Listen to the colours in her brush: The surprise of a million fireflies  lights her eyes  Charred trees standing, resentment smouldering  Rocks harsh in the sun   and hear the sound of silence:                      a hillside quarried of its song   These poems are auditory. They are full of colour, full of movement. They sing."    Jennifer Langley-Kemp, Poet, Society of Women Writers, (W.A)

Barbara, a member of SWW (WA), says “I have been writing poems since high school; my themes include nature, relationships, incidents in the Bible.”  Some of Barbara's poems have been published in Studio, the Canberra Times and the Mozzie (alias Micropress Oz).  My book costs $25.00, $28.00 posted. CD $20.00, cassette $12.00. Email for payment details or orders to sundew@bigpond.net.au