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 closed the schools ...

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

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 history of writing and ...

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

Today is Neighbour Day. To assist in celebrate this I attended a Neighbour Day event in Lancefield. I was there promoting Shared Reading Groups at the Lanc...

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 over her short life...

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

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 become more politically...

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 build from here. If...

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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 even country can focus ...

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 wear purple, with a red...

Tomorrow I am attending the Australian Loneliness Dialogue. The first conference on loneliness and social isolation in Australia. Friends for Good, a chari...

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 old, silly sweetness ...

"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 to the world. We sh...