Bøker av David Musgrave

Whoever the lambdas might be, and wherever they really come from, they're already here among us

This collection presents four decades of work, from seven collections and includes some poems which have not previously been published poems and others which have won some of Australia's most distinguished prizes. The poems are in a wide variety of forms and modes, but a concern with Australianness remains at the core of this selection.

You feel tired, overwhelmed, anxious, unsexy and often just plain cranky - maybe you just 'Feel Like Crap' and life is not fun anymore?Add to that; you're totally frustrated with your weight. You've tried everything but failed, so you tried again, and you failed again. This pattern really starts to do your head in and makes you feel like a failure, and you just want to give up as you start to fall into a downward spiral of low self-worth. Maybe you've even been to your doctor and been told: "I've run a few tests and they are all normal, so maybe you just need an anti-depressant ". Maybe you have a young family and feel you are 'running out of cope', or you're heading for menopause and dreading it?Women have a more difficult time with their hormones than men, simply because you have a monthly cycle, driven by the ebb and flow of your sex hormones. But more importantly, because your hormonal response to stress is very different from men's. This book reveals the most recent science, which women deserve to know, in everyday language. It explains the WHY and HOW, to empower you to 'Take Charge of Your Happiness, Bellyfat and Sexiness. The science of women all in one place.Learn how you can control the impact of hormonal processes on your brain, and the way your body responds to changes in body chemistry - particularly your stress, thyroid and sex hormones.David peels away the mythology and folklore and traces the real keys to women's wellness back in time, to when our bodies developed powerful hormonal systems to ensure excess food was stored for emergencies - as fat! This book is David's way of sharing his knowledge to empower you with the resources to 'Take Charge' of the three fundamental factors driving your health. These are - what you eat, the toxicity in your body and the toxicity in your mind. He details a 9 - 21 day 'Rapid Reset' lifestyle plan to use a ketogenic diet to turn on your bodies ability to easily burn fat to power up your body and brain - become 'fat adapted'. This gifts you 'metabolic flexibility' so you can burn either fat or carbs, so you do not become the weirdo "who can't eat anything on the menu".You will not find all this information in one place anywhere else or get it from your doctor. For most people, a few simple changes can make a significant change in the way you feel within a few days. As a research scientist with 48 years experience, David Musgrave has spent the last 30 years studying food, nutrition, and how a woman's hormone system works.

David Musgrave's seventh collection of poems is a kind of clearing: poems which open up, sometimes painfully, sometimes joyfully, what it is to be in the world. From obliquely confessional poems concerned with the death of his mother and the unexpected endings of significant relationships, to celebrations of new lives, this collection encompasses a wide range of emotions, attitudes, forms and styles. The poems show a significant sharpening from earlier work and increasingly move in the direction of uncompromising honesty. Numb and Number is an elegantly powerful collection by a significant poet who is entering a new and interesting phase of his career.I'm clearing a space in Waratah. Here, in Waratah, I'm making a clearing, marking out space among bluetongues, grevilleas, a conurbation of ants' nests. I'm making a space the size of a mid-range imagination, a modest keep, a distillation of hope. I'm chucking out, I'm ringing in, and I'm wiping clean.- "Waratah"David Musgrave's most recent collection, Anatomy of Voice, was awarded the Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry. He is also the recipient of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for his collection Phantom Limb, and individual poems have been awarded many prizes. His novel Glissando was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction in 2011. In 2005 he founded the publishing house Puncher & Wattmann. He lives in Newcastle with his family.