I no longer review books in the traditional sense, but I love to talk about authors and their books and, as in art, I know what I like. I’ve been reading via Kindle (the accessibility for a traveller makes it a necessity but I miss holding the real thing in my hand) and there are […]
Alice in Iceland
This photo I took at Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon last year goes perfectly with my story Alice … Incomplete, originally published in Forty South’s 2017 Tasmanian Writers Prize Anthology. Here’s the full story. Alice Incomplete As you can tell, Alice … Incomplete, pays homage to Charles Blackman’s painting, The Blue Alice. If you’d like to read […]
Paper Women
I have been silent for too long My soft tresses pulled taut in a bun of compliance complicit? These are the opening lines from my poem ‘Hashtag’ which won the Blue Knot Foundation Award in the Hunter Valley Grieve Project in 2018. The poem came to mind again when I read about Amanda Firenze’s outstanding project Paper […]
Chesil Beach
Look at moi! Standing – in my usual awkward pose – “on Chesil Beach”. Ian McEwan is my Literary crush so, unsurprisingly, a tear or ten escaped soon after this pic was snapped. I was similarly moved years ago when I discovered I had followed in McEwan’s footsteps when visiting Bruny Island in Tasmania. I […]