In honour of the event I will be hosting this evening at the Emerging Writers’ Festival (DIY-Hards: Self-Publishing and Zines, do come along!), I thought I would put together a special on Surprise! Two copies for $20, including P&H! If you’d like a copy for yourself and another for a present or to gift to a…
Sometimes we need a book like we need to take a deep breath: to recompose, relax and bring a little bit of presence and perspective into our day. This is the effect Life Lessons From Byron had on me. By no means a full biography, but author Matthew Bevis takes snippets from Byron’s poetry and…
Beginning with Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson. If you’ve read Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, you’ll be back in familiar territory as Winterson talks about her troubled formative years with her adopted parents. This book also tells of her search – and discovery – of her birth mother. Beautiful writing,…
1. Filling Out Passport Renewal Forms As we plan another international trip for 2015, I got out our passports to check when they expire – and good thing I did, because it’s soon. The kids’ are fine for a while yet. So we need new passport photos! Joy! Because they always turn out the best…
When You Are Old By William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved…
It’s a male-centric list, I know. Not by any design, and I have other titles by women lying about I could/should have picked up instead, but I wanted to get that out in the open straight away. In truth, my reading lately hasn’t been all that thorough or satisfying in the sense I’m getting much…
Hey. I’m going on a quick break. I’m working on words elsewhere for a week or so – but I’ll be back. There are some exciting things coming up this month! I’ll be around on Facebook – come on over. Take care x
In between other commitments, I’ve been working on a third book. (How I keep my head straight, I don’t know. Oh, hang on, it never was straight in the first place. That’s right). Anyway, it came together much quicker than I’d anticipated – funny how that happens when you sit down and focus on one…
Read / February 12th, 2014
With Valentine’s Day almost upon us, I thought it fitting that at least one of the titles I read this month be explicitly about love and such is the case with Australian Love Poems 2013, thus also filling my minimum self-set poetry quota. While it contained some beautiful poems, many by names I already admire…