This is not my post on 2012 reading highlights ... that will come at the end of the year ... but, with Christmas just a week away, I thought I'd offer up some Aussie lit suggestions for your lovers-of-literature friends. Some of these may be tricky to find at this short notice - and these … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Last minute Aussie lit shopping ideas
Christmas
The gift of words
Middle age has come and all the plans and needs are chaff not seeds, blowing down the blue air to fall flat and trampled by some window where a hopeful girl braids her thick hair and hums. ("Humble", by Ginny Jackson) Better late than ... hmm, perhaps not, but I'm going to tell you anyhow. … Continue reading The gift of words
My second book for Christmas
Is this starting to sound like a carol you know? Anyhow, I did say in a comment on my first Christmas book post that I had received another book for Christmas, The best Australian poems 2009 (edited by Robert Adamson). DKS's comment about the value of this annual series to the cause of poetry made … Continue reading My second book for Christmas
My first book for Christmas
I know that Christmas is still over a week away but last night I received my first book of the season...and that, I think, is a litblog-worthy event! Actually, I tell a bit of a lie, because last week I was sent, by a very kind internet bookgroup friend who knows my likes, the British … Continue reading My first book for Christmas
A free range Christmas
Can you think of anything more free-ranging than a concert which includes the Inch Worm song and Blake's Tyger, Rudolph the Red-nose reindeer and a 13th century Benedictine Nun's lullaby, and much more besides? I certainly wouldn't have before we attended a concert on Friday titled A Free Range Christmas by the wonderful Song Company. The … Continue reading A free range Christmas
Whispering Gums 