John Beresford Books in Order

In his second poetry collection, John Beresford returns to love while exploring a darker range of experiences. Poems consider desire alongside jealousy, divorce, drug abuse, and the death of a child, moving between intimate feeling and personal loss.

A company releases genetically modified wheat before adequate testing, driven by its chief executive's ambition to end hunger. When the product reacts with a common food additive, a devastating degenerative disease exposes the consequences of that decision.

John Beresford's first poetry collection moves between ordinary routines and more reflective encounters. Office boredom, returning to a childhood school, an imagined tree's thoughts, and questions about friendship become subjects for poems that look closely at familiar experience.

Five people join Earth's colonisation mission for different personal reasons, only to reach a world already inhabited by people with elemental magic. As some newcomers develop powers themselves, their arrival entangles them in a centuries-old conflict between rival societies.

Daytime rain returns to Berikatanya for the first time in centuries, disturbing the rival powers already disputing the Valley. Suspicion falls on the Elementals while the last colony ship approaches the planet, carrying further uncertainties into an unstable world.

The Pattern Juggler possesses an element capable of creation and destruction, but cannot fully decipher his father's lore book. When an injured stranger interrupts the Water Wizard's inauguration with a warning of catastrophe, mastering that power becomes urgent.

John Beresford documents a challenge to write on one hundred themes in one hundred days, allowing thirty minutes per topic. Short fiction, anecdotes, and other pieces appear alongside notes about his choices, lessons learned, and renewed writing habits.