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,…