What beautiful surroundings – perfect for contemplation or creation. Thanks for the stunning photos too.
Literature merged with art, music, dance and spirituality in a soul-opening embrace at the inaugural New Norcia Writers Festival yesterday.
The festival, conceived by The West Australian literary editor William Yeoman, was set in the grounds of Australia’s only monastic town – New Norcia. The setting, a touch of Europe in the Australian wheatbelt, was well chosen, allowing participants to retreat inside themselves while reaching out in a communal embrace of reading, writing, and art.
Sessions were spread over the grounds, providing ample photo opportunities for me, as well as a rare chance to be welcomed into the midst of the monastic community. Session one – a reading from Liz Byrski’s non-fiction book In Love and War: Nursing Heroes interspersed with excerpts from Richard Hillary’s The Last Enemy in St Gertrude’s Chapel. Moving, thought-provoking and at times funny (for this Lutheran-raised woman, it did feel naughty to hear words like penis and sex in…
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