Hello, it is with great sadness that I have decided to cancel the last Shared Reading Circles of this term. Our Premier, Dan Andrews has...

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This year has been extraordinary. It was this time last year I started to work towards an incorporated not for profit that brought the j...

Last week I heard Belinda Jack on the Book Hub on RN. An academic who thinks a lot about how we read. The book takes us through the his...

Louis Macneice's last poem was Thalassa. It was found amongst his possessions after his death in 1963. Macneice, a friend and contempor...

Today is Neighbour Day. To assist in celebrate this I attended a Neighbour Day event in Lancefield. I was there promoting Shared Readin...

Sylvia Plath, born in the US, studied in the US and the UK, married to Ted Hughes, often see as a tortured soul. The poetry she produced...

Bibliotherapy is a term composited from 'biblio' meaning books and therapy meaning a treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder. I...

Next Friday 8 March 2019 is International Women's Day. This day always reminds me of the time, in the early 1980's when I started to bec...

Last week saw the start of two new Shared Reading Groups in Woodend and Lancefield. Both groups went really well. A good start; we can ...

This time of year can be overwhelming. The combination of end of year, end of school and often moving to another home, jobs, role or eve...

The poem by Jenny Joseph, first published in 1961, is named Warning, but many people know it by its first line; "When I am old I will wea...

Tomorrow I am attending the Australian Loneliness Dialogue. The first conference on loneliness and social isolation in Australia. Frien...

Poet as Hero by Wilfred Sassoon You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented, Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me why Of my o...

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Robert Frost Poetry is the way that we open ourselves ...