I have been wondering why the English are so fond of chariots. Chariots are a recurring theme in English identity and in their rugby songs. They even made a film called after them. What is it all about?
Chariot is a relatively recent word. It originates in 14th century French as an extension of…
Kandos poet Terry Yates will launch the Kandos Writers' Group inaugural Anthology titled Kandos Moments on Friday 1 July at 4pm at the Kandos Returned Services Community Club, 20 Dangar Street, Kandos.
The Kandos Writers' first collection features short stories, a letter, memoir and poetry.
Local artist Judi Martinelli Rasmusssen's delightful work complements this diverse pallette of styles.
The group meet at the Kandos Library and are part of the Fellowship of…
Long have I prefered DeviantArt to Flickr, as I like the more ecclectic collection of ‘deviations’ (or text/art/photo/whatever-you-submissions) to the focus on photography at Flickr.
One of the best thinigs that I have found through my ramblings through DA are the other (seemingly increasing amount of?) ‘deviants’ and groups working on pieces of…
I have been so preoccupied with finalising my new book, Vishvarūpa, that I’ve not blogged for almost a month. My use of Sanskrit words in the collection led to considerations as to whether, when and how I should assign a notion of difference to the romanisation of these words. How should one language be represented in the script of another? Should the phonetic complexities of Devanāgarī, with its voiced and unvoiced consonants, its…
Few are as aware of the need to rescue poetry from the art world's metaphorical gulag than Paul Kooperman, the national director of Australian Poetry, which runs the cafe poet-in-residence program.
''It's a huge challenge. Enormous,'' he says. ''We launched an iPhone app a couple of weeks ago, and the funny thing about that is when you search 'Australian Poetry' [on the internet], you get Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and now our app. There's such a gap between…
And the winners are: • Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 Best Book for The Memory of Love • Craig Cliff wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 Best First Book for A Man Melting • Defining books "of our time", say judges.
The 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize were announced in Sydney.
The judges praised The Memory of Love for its risk taking, elegance and breadth. A poignant story about friendship, betrayal, obsession and second chances – the novel is an…
This week more FIFA executives are denying corruption charges; the awarding of the 2022 FIFA Soccer World Cup to Qatar (which Australia had tried to bid for) is again being questioned; and Sepp Blatter (pictured), the man in charge, was re-elected unopposed as FIFA…
First an apology for the unicorn. Do not be alarmed. You have not inadvertently arrived at a site devoted to unicorns. This is a site for poetry, and this is a post about a post on a poem for a unicorn. Confused? Neither are we! And there is no cause for concern.
On Friday last week sydneypoetry.com passed an exciting milestone – our 300th member joined. Welcome again Anna B Rasztabiga. Since Friday six more people have joined so we're on our way to 400. Welcome again, of course, to all…
......it was a few days out past the island of Haiti, and stories of the White Witch of Rose Hall, where the rough indigo blue of the Atlantic became the far gentler turquoise waters of the Caribbean. (I was only eleven years old) . The Atlantic ocean seemed like a lonley and desolate expanse to me: the murky blue waters,extending all the way out to the horizon, on all sides, the ocassional passing of ships, the constant churning of the waves, the eternal rocking motion of the…