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“This is Heather Cam reading the title poem from my collection ‘The Majestic Rollerink’:
Posted in NSW, Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Majestic Rollerink, Petersham, Poetry, South-East Asian diaspora, writing on November 30, 2011| 2 Comments »
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“This is Heather Cam reading the title poem from my collection ‘The Majestic Rollerink’:
Posted in A.C.T., Historical Fiction, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged convicts, penal colony, stars, The Thames, writing on November 28, 2011| 1 Comment »
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“Hello, this is Kate Grenville. I’m going to read from The Secret River.
The Alexander, with its cargo of convicts, had bucked over the face of the ocean for the better part of a year. Now it had fetched up at the end of the earth. There was no lock on the door of the hut where William Thornhill, transported for the term of his natural life, was passing his first night in His Majesty’s penal colony of New South Wales. There was hardly a door, barely a wall: only a flap of bark, a screen of sticks and mud. There was no need of lock, of door, of wall: this was a prison whose bars were ten thousand miles of water.
Posted in NSW, Short fiction, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged elephants, University of Western Sydney, writing on November 27, 2011| 1 Comment »
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This is Tom Lee reading “Circus in the English Countryside” from a sequence I call Adventures with Clare. (more…)
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Dachau, SS Officer, Varuna Fellowship for Writing Retreat, writing on November 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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“Hello my name is Suzanne Leal and I am reading from my novel Border Street.
Posted in A.C.T., Fiction, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged passion, Varuna Publisher Fellowship, writing on November 25, 2011| 5 Comments »
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“Hi, I’m Chris Bishop. I’m reading from When Lisa Was Alive and Dead.
And then she shows up at his place, skips from the road behind his house, throws herself over his fence, peers through his kitchen window all smiling eyes and eager insistence.
And he breathes her in. (more…)
Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship, locusts, pain relief, plague, summer rain on November 23, 2011| 4 Comments »
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I’m Mireille Juchau and I’m reading from a new work called The Weather Inside (Photo by Bronwyn Rennex)
(more…)Posted in Fiction, NSW, Varuna Alumni, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Anne Sexton, hallucinations, panic, possessed witch, UWS Writing and Society Research Centre, Velvet Underground on November 22, 2011| 2 Comments »
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“Hello, I’m Meera Atkinson and I’m reading from my novel in progress, Luna Alaska. The reading starts with an excerpt from the narrator’s old diary.
Posted in Poetry, Varuna Alumni, Wales, Writer-a-Day recording, tagged Guardian Poetry Workshop, lump of coal, sorrowing, writing on November 21, 2011| 9 Comments »
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“Hello, my name is Ivy Alvarez. I’ll be reading a poem titled ‘Hold’, which was published by the Guardian (UK), online, for their Poetry Workshop section, on the 4th of November, 2011. (Photograph by Tasmanian photographer Rachael Duncan) (more…)