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May 16, 2021February 6, 2022

thinking aloud

Reading a new poem daily — working my way through a few Robert Adamson poems at the beginning of ‘Contemporary Australian Poetry’. Love the way I come back to these poems with some sort of relish, appreciating his vision, his ‘association with the dead (writers)’ (my italics), his writing of experiences (ie driving his boat…

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May 12, 2021February 6, 2022

thinking aloud

Spent a lovely evening with Anne and Giles last night, fed a meal of fish and salad and gem melon. Giles enthused about the artist Klimt, and Hieronymous Bosch, and showed me his book on Peter Bruegel the Elder, I mentioned the painting I came across last week — Bruegel’s ‘The blind leading the blind’,…

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May 10, 2021February 6, 2022

Minsk

Valzhyna Mort, in an interview, characterises the people of Belarussia as having undergone much, and being a non-aggressive people, basically. And it clicked — what might have caused the people of Minsk to be so non-belligerent? What part of her history can this be attributed to? To the USSR, since 1917? Or much earlier? Is…

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May 5, 2021February 6, 2022

thinking aloud

Went along to the AGM of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival last night. I didn’t nominate for the committee, and I’m glad I didn’t cos there were more nominees (6) than vacancies (4).

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February 3, 2016February 7, 2022

thinking aloud

Managed to put up issue four of Communion two or three days ago, good to have had some feedback. Included a couple of interviews – one with Philomena van Risjwick, which I enjoyed a great deal, she had some good things to say about writing and music – the other with Rebecca Kylie Law, an…

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September 4, 2006February 25, 2022

Thinking aloud

Went round to visit Jane, she told me a story about how the one of the MC’s at the festival – a young woman – introduced her as ‘Mister’, then – recovering – as ‘Missus’ … causing Jane to completely drop the running order of her poems and to begin with her poem called ‘Missus’….

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Categories

  • 3CR
  • A Chides Alphabet
  • ACT Literary Awards
  • Adamson, Bob
  • Adès, David
  • Akers, louise
  • Albiston, Jordie
  • Allan, Alice
  • ALLMUSIC
  • Altman, Dennis
  • Amis, Martin
  • Anderson, Pat
  • Andrejeva, Kaciaryna
  • Anne Elder Award
  • Armantrout, Rae
  • Arnott, Robbie
  • Ashley, Melissa
  • Austin, Susan
  • Australia Institute
  • awards
  • Azimitabr, Mostafa ‘Moz’
  • Bailey, Thomas Forest
  • Baker, Tim
  • Bandesh, Farhad
  • Barnes, Melanie
  • Barton, Alison J.
  • Bell, Johanna
  • Bernstein, Charles
  • Berry, Colin
  • Bignell, Meg
  • Bircumshaw, David
  • Blackwood, Mary
  • Blakers, Rob
  • Bliss, Magenta
  • blog
  • Bolliger, Huni Melissa
  • book launch
  • book quotes
  • books
  • boult, jenny
  • Bowen, Kristy
  • Boyle, Peter
  • Brewster, Anne
  • Bright South
  • Brinklow, Laurie
  • Brophy, Kevin
  • Brown, Bob
  • Brozek, Daniela
  • Bruny Island Bird Festival
  • Burns, Anna
  • Byrne, Daragh
  • Byrne, Mairead
  • Cadden, Anna
  • Calanthe Press
  • Campbell, Marion May
  • Canetti, Elias
  • Carbis, Gayelene
  • Castlemaine Poetry Readings
  • children's books
  • City Park Radio
  • Clifton, Alison
  • climate change
  • Colette
  • Collins, Anne
  • Colville, Jan
  • Conan-Davies, Cally
  • conversations & interviews
  • Corbett, Nancy
  • Cordite Poetry Review
  • Corfiatis, Thérèse
  • Cossins, Jennifer
  • Couani, Anna
  • Cranston, CA
  • Csik Zenekar
  • Daiza, Eliza Dune
  • DakhaBrakha
  • Davis, Megan
  • Didion, Joan
  • Dimitriadis, Koraly
  • Donlon, Ross
  • Drabble, Margaret
  • Drever, Chris
  • Dulcetly
  • Dumbly, Tug
  • Easton, Carol
  • Eberhard, Adrienne
  • Edmond, Martin
  • Edwards, Rachel
  • Einaudi, Ludovico
  • Ell, Theodore
  • Estrada, Silvana
  • Eureka Street
  • Evans, Alison
  • faith
  • festivals
  • fiction
  • Filreis, Al
  • FitzSimons, Peter
  • Five Islands Poetry Prize
  • Five Islands Press
  • Flanagan, Martin
  • Flanagan, Richard
  • Flett, Alison
  • Fowlis, Julie
  • Gallego, Ruben
  • Garcia-Navarro, Lulu
  • Giard-Chase, Ann
  • Gillespie, Alyssa
  • Gorton, John
  • Gotye
  • Greenhill, Susie
  • Grove, Simon
  • Haig, Francesca
  • haiku
  • Hay, Pete
  • Hecate
  • Herbert, Elanna
  • Hetherington, Graeme
  • Hey Rosetta!
  • Higgins, Kevin
  • Hindrum, Cameron
  • Hobart
  • Hobart Bookshop
  • Holland-Batt, Sarah
  • Hugo, Giles
  • Hunt, Julie
  • interviews
  • Ireland, David
  • Island
  • Jackson, Andy
  • Jackson, Eleanor
  • Jermy, Helga
  • Jones, Jill
  • Joris, Pierre
  • journals
  • Jurek, Thom
  • Kessler, Deirdre
  • Kidjo, Angélique
  • Kimbra
  • Kruimink, Kate
  • Laing, Harry
  • Launceston
  • Launceston Poetry Cup
  • Law, Archie
  • Law, Rebecca Kylie
  • Lawrence, Anthony
  • Layton-Bennett, Anne
  • Lea, Shelton
  • Leane, Jeanine
  • Lefroy, Liz
  • Lenker, Adrianne
  • Lilley, Kate
  • Liminal
  • Liquid Amber Press
  • Lomer, Kathryn
  • Lopo, Lisbet De Castro
  • MacKellar, Maggie
  • Mansell, Chris
  • Mantel, Hilary
  • Manus Island
  • March, Annie
  • Marr, David
  • Mason, David
  • McCusker, John
  • McGowan, Shane
  • mclennan, rob
  • McQuilkin, Liz
  • Melbourne Poetry Map
  • Meldrum, Petrina
  • Melrose, Shaine
  • memoir
  • Mercer, Gina
  • Middle East
  • Middleton, Kate
  • MILCK
  • Miles Franklin Award
  • Mok, Judith
  • Moss, Ron
  • New York Times
  • Nic Amhlaoibh, Muireann
  • Nielsen-Creeley, Kim
  • NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
  • O'Loughlin, Michael
  • Oakman, BJ
  • Otoliths
  • Ott, Teresa
  • Ottaway, Esther
  • Overland
  • Owen, David
  • Page, Vanessa
  • Paris Review
  • Patterson, Carol
  • Perera, Indrani
  • photography
  • Piko, Gregory
  • Poem Talk
  • poetry
  • poetry collections
  • Poetry London
  • Poetry Pedlars, Launceston
  • Poetry Says (podcast series)
  • poets
  • Poets on the Line
  • Poets' Express, The
  • Price, Jacinta
  • Proctor, Vanessa
  • Pybus, Cassandra
  • Rayner, Tony
  • Reaburn, Norman
  • Red Room Poetry
  • refugees
  • Reid, Harry
  • research
  • reviews
  • Riekki, Ron
  • Rochford Street Review
  • Rockman, Shoshanna
  • Rogers, Lars
  • Rothenberg, Jerome
  • Rowland, Robyn
  • Roy, Anuradha
  • Ryan, Brendan
  • Ryan, Tracy
  • Sakr, Omar
  • Saltbush Review
  • Schindler, Pam
  • science
  • Sculthorpe-Green, Nunami
  • Seasonal Poets
  • self-publishing
  • Sendra, Tim
  • Sharkey, Michael
  • Sheerwater, Henry
  • short stories
  • Simic, Charles
  • Skilbeck-Porter, Ella
  • Skovron, Alex
  • Slade, Tim
  • Small Press Network
  • Smith, Hazel
  • Sometimes, Alicia
  • song
  • Spaulding, Ralph
  • Spineless Wonders
  • Spoken Word, 3CR
  • Stenberg, Britta
  • Strummer, Joe
  • Swain, Helen
  • Tasmanian Literary Awards
  • Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022
  • Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025
  • Tasmanian Poetry Festival
  • The Richell Prize
  • thinking aloud
  • Thorne, Tim
  • Those Folk & The Inadequates
  • Tinmouth, Valerie
  • Tiny Desk Concert
  • Tokarczuk, Olga
  • Tredennick, Mark
  • Ukraine
  • Uluru Statement from the Heart
  • Uncategorized
  • US politics
  • Vale
  • Van Rijswijk, Philomena
  • Vaughan, Eleanor
  • Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature
  • Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry
  • Webby, David
  • WestWords
  • Whish-Wilson, David
  • Whish-Wilson, Peter
  • White, Rachel
  • Whitebeach, Terry
  • Wicks, Les
  • wildness (online poetry journal)
  • Williams, Jane
  • Williams, Lucy
  • Winfield, Liz
  • Winton, Tim
  • Witek, Jules
  • Wood, Charlotte
  • Woodside
  • Woomble, Roddy
  • Woorilla Poetry Prize
  • Writers' Week, Adelaide Festival
  • Yee, Grace
  • Young, Damon
  • Young, Mark
  • Yukon Blonde
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