Just had to share this one. The bit in question is from 1:10 to 1:28 (don’t think I can edit it to just display that bit, so feel free to scroll for yourself) – Yep, I think we’ve all been there.
Upcoming poetry classes (Winter/Spring 2013)
Due to all my good intentions having deserted me popular demand, I’m going to be back teaching a few months earlier than originally planned. You can read details here, but the basic info is as follows: Reading for Writing 1 – Playing Favourites Saturday mornings, June 15th to July 13th Habgood Lounge, Lincoln Event Centre A …
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Life Lines, Ear worms and Derek Walcott’s White Egrets
I don't know how widely this is known – The Academy of American Poets website has been collecting people's favourite lines of poetry, along with a short explanation of why it is that those particular words matter to them. It's called Life Lines, and is well worth a visit. (As is their Poetcast podcast. But …
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Anzac Day
All our fathers and uncles going off to war like going down to the pub. Whirled away like paper dolls painstakingly cut from khaki by little girls, confetti men tumbling into rice paddies, into names like Kokoda and Nui Dat. See them scatter into the twigs into the puddles, the rivers into the villages folding …
Autumn: time for a change
Well here we are in the first day of autumn, and it seemed like a good time to give the website a bit of a make-over. Hope you like it. The plan is to make it more streamlined for those who are here for info, but not necessarily to read blog posts. Let me know …
A Dark Feathered Art 