'Unbreakable Bond' is Meryl Brown Tobin's third solo collection of published poems.
The poems have been published here and overseas in numerous publications:
Australia
Along the Waterline, Bass Coast; Free XpresSion; Friends of ABC Poet’s Corner Newsletter; The Mozzie; Oxygen; Poetry Matters; Poetry Monash; Positive Words; The Waterline News; The Write Angle; The Writing Set, SWW Aust (Vic) Newsletter; Writer’s Friend, Writer’s Friend Fifth Birthday Competition booklet; Write Away: Newsletter of The Society of Women Writers Victoria, Inc
Overseas
Journal of Australian Literature (India); Metverse Muse (India); Valley Micropress (NZ)
Internet Sites
Along the Waterline, Bass Coast; Ariel Chart; Australian Children's Poetry, https://australianchildrenspoetry.com.au/; http://www.sciencerhymes.com.au/awesome-possum.html; Celia Berrell’s Science Rhymes Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/ScienceRhymeswithCeliaBerrell/; Free XpresSion; and The Waterline News, search https://www.waterline
'Unbreakable Bond' is divided into four sections: Environment, People, Challenges and Reflection. Under Environment, Tobin, a long-time advocate for the environment and member of conservation groups and Australian Rare Fauna Research Association, features many lyrical and narrative poems with environmental themes.
In the People section, she shows her ability to relate to others and details their joys, idiosyncracies and connectedness.
Challenges covers more challenging issues, such as the realities of war and ageing.
In Reflection, Tobin appreciates the wisdom that comes with experience and her take on where the world is heading.
The last poem, ‘Flirting with Extinction’, shows where the human race is heading if it doesn’t listen to Science and protect the planet and allow only sustainable growth and stop exploitation of resources for short-term gain.
Poetry, Environment, People, Challenges, Reflection
About The Author
Meryl Tobin, writing name Meryl Brown Tobin, is an Australian writer of short and long fiction for adults and children, non-fiction, especially on travel and the environment, poetry and educational puzzles.
She has had 22 books published. These include puzzle/activity books, black-line masters books of educational puzzles, workbooks for primary students, a travel book, a children’s picture storybook, a poetry collection and a haiku collection with four other poets of The Society of Women Writers Victoria. She has also edited one book and co-edited two others. In total, nearly 300,000 copies of her first four puzzle books, which were published by Ashton Scholastic, were sold in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Hundreds of her poems, puzzles, short stories and travel and other articles, and some cartoons and comic strips have appeared in more than 150 magazines, newspapers and anthologies in Australia and overseas, including India, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the USA. Some of her stories and poems have been broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission and other radio stations while others have been published on the Internet. As a guest on the set of Ch7’s children’s program The Book Place, she read her story LEFTY with regular presenter, Lynn Weston.
Apart from family and home, her interests include travel, bushwalking, conservation, current affairs and social justice issues. The Tasmanian Tiger fascinates her, and she’d love to prove it is not extinct.
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