"onya"  Adrian,

What a feast !!

Making a choice will be difficult enough. 

Then one has to 'dig in' to decide what, when, where, then how.

Should keep me busy for a 'coupla' days.

"Thanks"

Jim. 26/6/11.

Life isn't about how you survived the storm...

it's about how you danced in the rain!

*****

So true for all of us.

All that follows is an ABC excerpt which members may find interesting –

"Kim Scott…

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…

Tanami Trek

             part 2.

Suplejack Station is now far behind,

this journey so far is one of a kind.

One of me brothers said don’t be a big sook,

just suck it up, it wont be too crook,

now only a few hundred kilometres to go

it’d be bloody worse if there was  - - -  snow.

We hope we won’t have to - overtake a…

Some dated news -

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…

For those who listened to Macca, Australia All Over last Sunday, you may have heard him read this piece to air -

Tanami Trek.

Trekin’ across the Tanami, hundreds of kilometres to go,…