October 2012 ~ Helen Hagemann

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Poem for the Day: Broken Sandals

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Poem for the Day: Walking with the Bee Poem (from Miniscule) ©

Walking with the Bee Poem After my aimless strolling that led me to meditate on the ancient running of birds, and the way pink/grey galahs, magpies and peewees were bound together like the scrolls of clouds, I began to power walk concentrating on an increase of speed. As it happened a poem was walking with me. It started a week before with the...

A Prize Winner! Returning (Rottnest Island poems)

This poem just won the inaugural Adrien Abbott Poetry Award 2012! https://www.facebook.com/AdrienAbbottPrize Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE ...

Review of A Man Melting by Craig Cliff

A Man Melting is Craig Cliff’s debut collection of eighteen short stories, and with much acclaim has won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize for First Best Book. In the frontispiece of the book, Cliff appears as a high achiever and a globetrotter. Born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, he has accumulated three university degrees, lived in Brisbane & Melbourne,...

Poem for the Day: Country Gate Swings Back on a Country Girl

Country Girl Swings Back on a Country Gate Imagine a radio playing, the Voice of America, and a slivered moon above a country cottage in green and cream weatherboard. A country girl swings back on a country gate, the pulse of the landscape creaking with her, sound of metal like strangled heat in December. Parents tap her on the shoulder, send her...

Ladybird At the courtyard cafe, after we had sat down to lunch and were deeply engrossed in the board menus, those exotic meals that no one understands the name of a wagtail flipped around at our feet. listening to the origins of Golding's Lord of the Flies. At the same time, as we finished our Chorizo, Red Shakshuka, and several glasses of Shiraz, a ladybird...