The legendaryMin Min Lightwas apparently first seen about 100 years ago around Boulia in central Queensland and is a great subject for one of mums bush poems. A poem about an outback dogger calledOld Jack- doggers were blokes that went around hunting dingoes and collecting a bounty for every ...
The Best Cat, The Est CatSlink inside the secret places in the treasurehouse of the State Library of NSW. Libby's latest book is has arrived.Take a Peek Inside WINNER, CBCA Picturebook of the Year, 2021No! Never! A Cautionary TaleMother-daughter team Libby Hathorn & Lisa-Hathorn Jarma...
Of the “men who fought in the war and returned to write of it” she says only Vance Palmer’s long free-verse poem,The Camp(1920) and Leon Gellert’s collection,Songs of a Campaign(1917) are worth remembering. One or two of Gellert’s poems “are as brief and sharp-edged as the ...
English changed their tongues, the formation of their minds, August thought – she’d drifted in and out of herself all that time. The language was the poem she had looked for, communicating what English failed to say. Her poppy used to say the words were paramount. That they were like ...
s lover because as a boy he once glimpsed her breast when they were together. What he remembers from this incident is her large birthmark and Kawabata (both insensitively and offensively IMHO) makes rather a big thing of this as a disfigurement which could cause trauma for those who see ...
Reading this poem for the first time, I really felt the gut punch of the Australian war experience, different to anything I’d experienced reading Brookes’ ‘The Soldier’ or Owen’s Latin homework. Likewise, with the works of Clarence Michael James Dennis – or C. J. Dennis as he becam...
by the class. Readers Theatre was also created in response to a stimulus literary text such as a poem or picture storybook. An overview of the teachers’ pedagogical choices based on the ‘Inclusive creative pedagogy model’ (Dutton, D’warte, Rossbridge & Rushton,2017) is provided in Fig....
The Ancient Mariner Big Read is an inclusive, immersive work of audio and visual art from the 21st century that reflects the sweeping majesty and abiding influence of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 18th century epic poem. Show more → Sports Dan Does Footy He could have been anything, but ...
As the poem goes, “I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…” I’ve followed Karina’s artwork for years, so when it came to some bedroom restyling, the art came first, and everything else followed. These prints are flawless, and perfectly encapsulate her colour depth, an...
Go Fed …IF you can channel Kiplings poem of course there is a chance ! Reply muser says: January 28, 2017 at 7:25 am I’m just worried about the adductor thing, which hampers. Otherwise I’m sure artist MAESTRO will gift us with a brave and brilliant match vs …well a stem ...