Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi I’m Megan Jennaway and I’m reading from my novel The Water Jar. Long before their arrival in our village I knew that strangers were approaching. There had been portents all week, with eels jumping out of streams to lie dehydrating [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Writer-a-Day: Megan Jennaway reading from “The Water Jar”
Posted in Fiction, Queensland, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Ethnographic Fiction, Japanese gunships in Dili Harbour, Varuna Writer's Retreat Fellowship on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Writer-a-Day: Marele Day reading from “The Sea Bed”
Posted in Crime Writing, Editing, Fiction, NSW, Teaching, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged abalone diving, Byron Bay Writers' Festival, Crime writing, Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award, writing on October 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi I’m Marele Day and I’m reading from The Sea Bed which is a novel set in a community of abalone diving women. Lilli climbed the pyramid of rock, sat on the peak, knees to her chest, feet poised. The reef [...]
Writer-a-Day: Glenda Guest reading from “Siddon Rock”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Dior, War on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, I’m Glenda Guest. I’m going to read to you from my novel Siddon Rock. Macha Connor arrived home from war as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn boots and a dusty slouch hat, and the .303 [...]
Writer-a-Day: Tim Thorne reading “Scratched in Stone”
Posted in Poetry, Tasmania, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged class war, Eleanor Dark Fellowship, firing squad, Murdoch, Poetry, refusal on October 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) Hello this is Tim Thorne. My poem is called Scratched in Stone. On the wall of a cell in Richmond Castle: “The only war worth fighting is the class war.” 1916: A few men brave enough to be called cowards knew [...]
Writer-a-Day: David Brooks reading “Spiders about the House”
Posted in NSW, Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged funnel web country, Overland, Poetry, spiders, Sydney University on October 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) Hi I’m David Brooks and I’m going to read a poem that’s called Spiders about the House – a secret of the Blue Mountains that not too many people talk about.
Writer-a-Day: Charlotte Clutterbuck reading “Tricky Arithmetic”
Posted in A.C.T., Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged integrity, Meanjin, Poetry, Varuna Poetry Fellowships, Varuna Publisher Fellowship on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hello, I’m Charlotte Clutterbuck and I’m going to read Tricky Arithmetic (a poem published in Meanjin about difficult choices and their consequences):
Writer-a-Day: Deb Westbury reading from “The View From Here”
Posted in NSW, Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Community Writing, Her Hands, poerms for refugees, Poetry, songlines, White Coffin Notes on October 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, it’s Deb Westbury here. I’m going to read two poems from my most recent collection. The collection is called The View From Here and was published in 2008. It features my new and selected work. Both poems are dedicated to [...]
Writer-a-Day: Ross Donlon reading from “The Blue Dressing Gown”
Posted in Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Victoria, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Arvon International Poetry Competition, Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship, Poetry, Wenlock Festival Poetry Prize on October 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “Hi, my name’s Ross Donlon. I’m going to read you a couple of poems from my latest book, The Blue Dressing Gown and Other Poems. The first one’s called The Blue Dressing Gown and the second is called In Praise of [...]
Writer-a-Day: Vicki Hastrich reading from “The Great Arch”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Allen & Unwin, Eleanor Dark Fellowship, Reverend Ralph Anderson Cage, Simon & Schuster, Swimming with the Jellyfish, Sydney Harbour Bridge on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “I’m Vicki Hastrich and this is from my novel The Great Arch which is about an Anglican clergyman, the Reverend Ralph Anderson Cage, who is obsessed with the Sydney Harbour Bridge which he can see being built from his rectory verandah. [...]
Writer-a-Day: Eileen Naseby reading from “Don’t Go Near The Water”
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Bali bombings, Film World, Fire at the Northern Beaches, grief, Murdoch Books on October 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Click on the arrow above to listen (In emails: click on the title above) “I’m Eileen Naseby and I’m reading from my novel, Don’t Go Near the Water. The bedroom is stifling but he refuses to let her turn on the air-conditioning. The noise drives him crazy. She crosses the room and peers through the [...]
