Category Archives: Poetry
Summer river
Jack Kerouac – Haiku
Vale – Ania Walwicz
Ania Walwicz was the first writing teacher I ever had. About thirty-five years ago she was teaching in a Community Centre in Clifton Hill, even though she was a graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts. She had come to Australia from Poland as a child and always retained a strong accent. A tiny woman, she was known for her public performances, often wearing a large black beard. She was a true original, a Bohemian rebel, always unafraid to challenge conventional ideas. Continue reading Vale – Ania Walwicz
Mrs Midas – Carol Ann Duffy
Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize
Recently we posted Louise Gluck’s poem Lamium and we’ve also posted excerpts from other poems in her collection The Wild Iris. She’s just won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”