It’s always good to catch up with poet Geoff Goodfellow. He’s been touring Tasmania this week, visiting local schools and the prison, talking poetry. ‘You’re becoming a local, Geoff…. ’ ‘Well I find that when I go into the schools, the year nine’s—they won’t know me—but the year ten’s, they’ll remember me from last year,…
Month: February 2019
Feedback for Michael Sharkey’s ‘Many Such As She: Victorian Australian Women Poets of World War One’
Some welcome feedback for Michael Sharkey’s anthology, Many Such as She…. “I’ve just been having another and deeper look into those women ‘war’ poets you’ve so assiduously collected and wonderfully written up, and up till now I’ve found their treatment of war, loss, patriotism, etc — by which I mean their favourite ‘positions’ to couple…