Crazy Rich Asians was our book club reading for March. I was slow to get started. My daughter said it was a quick read and made her...

Twelve roses bob by the harbour wall, Still bunched, red as blood in the swell. A gift. Emotion made real Heaving, falling, drowning,...

Songlines, a 2020 Christmas present, was a fascinating read when my focus was on the short-term events, like the COVID disaster and the...

It’ feels strange to retire from a lifetime of university work, especially when I’m still busy with research projects and research...

Into the Wonnangatta - Halloween 2019 Grey sky above snow grass plain. Muggy wind Blows across endless trees, stretching horizons. Jinxed...

Title: The white girl Author: Tony Birch Published: June 2019 Publisher: UQP Category: Fiction The White Girl is a memorable story...

Whooho. The book proposal was submitted yesterday on 2 September 2020. It’s about teacher education in a world that seems to be getting...

Title: The animals in that country Author: Laura Jean McKay Published: April 2020 Publisher: Scribe Category: Fiction This debut...

Williamstown Beach Blue still water. A whiteness in the blue Like a smear of ice across the bay Silvering stillness.

Gill Bolton’s Dream Chasers is a story about Cornish miners between 1870 and 1882, when Cornish tin extraction peaked and then declined...

Black lives; white eyes It was the title that caught my eye. The first sentence said, ‘It feels like the USA is on fire right now’. I’d...

I read Grandmothers before Mother’s Day, but my daughter’s card prompted me to re-visit this collection of twenty two essays ...

She used to write verse once, my mother. Then she aged; her memory faded. I give her the poems I’ve typed ‘You wrote them,’ I tell her....

She used to write poetry, my mother. Then she aged; her memory faded ...

I nuzzle my face into her neck, like a child. / My memory of comfort colliding with / The hollow feeling that’s fear. ...

Sing the earth as you walk, Shout into wind lifting your hair. Laugh at rain falling from sodden skies, Splash through puddles ...

I've spent weeks agonising about this website and trying to work out how to set it up. Last night I messaged my special women ...