2016 ~ Helen Hagemann

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

My Fiction Reviews

It's amazing what you notice when on holidays from work. I have noticed that my page Fiction Reviews has been empty for a long time. However, now that I have time, here are some short reviews for your summer reading. Click on the link below. http://helenhagemann.blogspot.com.au/p/fiction-reviews.html AlAlso on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/...

A Break In The Weather - Flash

My flash piece, A Break in the Weather has been awarded a "Highly Commended" in my writing group's competition (Out of the Asylum Writers Inc). So stoked! An even bigger break for me personally moving from poetry to prose! A Break in the Weather He sighed into the dismal drama of his life and battled on. There were days when he had little strength, moving forward...

This Isn't About Ships

Sea Princess A friend and I are off to Singapore for 5 nights. Later, it's the Sea Princess for 14 days of cruising in SE Asia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bali and Fremantle return. I hope to garner some great writing inspiration, but if not, what the heck, I'll just enjoy this lavish lifestyle. My good Sony Super Shot will be my travel journal. Singapore ...

A Love Poem

Loves Lost You, my beloved lost in advance, my never-appeared: – Du im Voraus by Rainer Maria Rilke There are So many lost ways to Love. No one...

A Children's Poem

14.00 The Blue Train The train leaves, the way blue enters into green wagons are horseless, the whistle blows in threes. The day is calm, and trees hide bees, the tunes you hear have rhythm in their wings. It's a footstep day to museum, gold and trams a horse stands aside purple ropes, the whistle blows again. It's turtle slow a...

Loves Lost

Loves Lost You, my beloved lost in advance, my never-appeared: – Du im Voraus by Rainer Maria Rilke There are So many lost ways to Love. No one willing to count The differences Your...

I am Much Too Alone by Rainer Maria Rilke

One of my favourite Rilke poems. It's been a Rilke week, read my poem Loves Lost ...

3 Children's poems published

Three children's poems published on the Australian Children's Poetry website and many thanks to writing colleague and editor Teena Raffa-Mulligan. I was inspired to write these three from Prompt #4 Texture. "Walls" seems popular and posted here. https://australianchildrenspoetry.com.au/2016/03/20/poem-of-the-day-320/ Normal 0 false false ...

Writing a Synopsis by Helen Hagemann

I started writing a novel at university for a Masters degree in Writing. Previously to that, I had studied poetry and had kept to that stream in my undergraduate years, with some success in poetry publishing. Although I didn’t have a clue whether I could be a novelist or not, I completed a work of 80,000 words, the requirement set down by the university. After several...