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An anniversary thank you

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Congratulations!

Wow. Today is an anniversary. I wrote my first post on this blog exactly eight years ago today. How my life has changed! I have published a book, I have online classes, and I get to travel and give workshops in the most spectacular places. But most importantly, I have gotten to know so many amazing people from all over the world. Many in person, but also many simply by reading their comments on the blog.

A few stats: in the past eight years I have created 1,826 blog posts and read and responded to over 15,000 comments (the numbers are double that, but that counts my responses too, and I try to respond to everyone). If you are one of those people who has written to me, I just want to let you know how much this means to me. Your feedback and encouragement, kind words, funny responses and…

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Siena in Umber

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Shari Blaukopf's Sketchbook

I’m just back from Italy with lots of sketches to scan. I had hoped to post more during my three weeks away, but during my free moments when I wasn’t teaching, the wifi was either down or very slow. In the coming days, I’ll certainly post some photos from all the workshops, but I thought I’d start with a few sketches that I did in my free time, and the stories that go with them.

I’m still enjoying working in direct watercolour using Burnt Umber pigment from Sennelier. These sketches were all done in a small handmade Fabriano sketchbook using a Rosemary travel rigger. An economy of materials that works well for quick sketches.

When I’m on my own, I try to capture small slices of local life. The first one was done in Volterra where I spent a few days visiting the walled Etruscan city and teaching for a…

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GRANTA

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I’ve just discovered GRANTA The Magazine for New Writing, via my local library who posted a message on Facebook.

And what a treat!

Rediscovering 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient, Doris Lessing, whose 1st novel ‘The Grass is Singing’ was published the year I was born (1950) and taking time to read her wonderful words.

#DorisLessing #TheGrassIsSinging #ZimbabweAuthor #StoriesFromAfrica #FavNovels #Africa #FavAuthors

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ART is the SPARK

Posted in Writing on October 10, 2019| 1 Comment »

Painted on Silk by Jessica McCallum 2009.

ART is often the SPARK for my poems. In this case one of my daughter’s “Raindrops” art pieces painted for her 2nd sold-out JM Exhibition held at the Subiaco Arts Centre in 2009.

Mirrored Mercury

Rain drops
like tears,
send ripples
through my heart.

Each sky sphere
holding an image,
a reminder of you.
Our love – found, lost.

Remembered raindrops
bounce on my red umbrella;

my romantic heart still
hoping with each splash
of mirrored mercury

a ripple will reach your pool, 
a wave of longing -
of love surrounding,
joining your heart to mine.


Frances Macaulay Forde © 2010

#ArtIsTheSpark #ARTIST:JessicaMcCallum #JMExhibition2009 #Poem:MirroredMercury #FMFPoem #FrancesMacaulayForde

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The SEED

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Very happy to report “The Seed” a film I supported some time ago, has done extremely well for itself, winning all sorts of prestigious awards!

Thanks for the credit on your webpage and also on the video (Frances Coughlan), David although my contribution was small but heartfelt.

Well done and congratulations to all involved with the making of “The Seed”.

#MOVIE:TheSeed #DavidGould #WALocalFilm #SupportLocalFilmakers

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‘September in Australia’ Poem by Henry Kendall — Thoughts Become Words

Posted in Writing on October 9, 2019| Leave a Comment »

‘September in Australia’ by Henry Kendall Grey Winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest, And, behold, for repayment, September comes in with the wind of the West And the Spring in her raiment! The ways of the frost have been filled of the flowers, While the forest discovers Wild wings, with the halo of hyaline […]

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The Ruin, The Scholar & The Sisters.

Posted in Writing on October 7, 2019| Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t discovered Dervla McTeirnan and her amazing best-selling books yet – may I recommend that you do. Although she only settled recently in my home town of Perth, she hasn’t forgotten her Irish roots. As a lawyer she is well-versed in her subject matter and background research for writing thrillers. And she does. I couldn’t put The Ruin down and read it in one sitting!

Her debut (2018) novel The Ruin has already been optioned by Hopscotch Films. As The Scholar is the second of a series of three, I have no doubt it will follow suit. And The Sisters has hit No 1 on Audible’s best selling list in the UK, US and Australia.

#DervlaMcTiernan #TheRuin #TheScholar #TheSisters #WAAuthor #IrishWriting

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Rose Cook: Sightings — The High Window

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Rose Cook’s Sightings reviewed by David Cooke Sightings by Rose Cook. £4. Hen Run (Grey Hen Press). ISBN: 978-1999690304 The title of Rose Cook’s new chapbook, Sightings, reminds one of Seamus Heaney’s 1991 masterpiece, Seeing Things, and, in particular, its long visionary sequence, ‘Squarings’. Moreover, the fact that Cook’s collection concludes with ‘Brigid’s Day’, a […]

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One of These Years (poem) — One of These Years…

Posted in Writing on October 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »

One of these days I’ll get it all together gather up my debts and gather up my thoughts One of these days I won’t have a choice there’s be no other way, just a fading day I always say one of these days… that’s right one of these days… One of these days I’ll write […]

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Googling about…

Posted in Writing on October 5, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Yes, I do the same… it’s amazing what you find!

Jackie Hosking

It’s probably terribly vain but sometimes I Google my name just to see what’s floating about and here’s what I discovered today.

This poem was first published by The School Magazine (ORBIT) in 2005 and again in 2016. It also appears in the New Mulberry English Course Book published by Oxford University Press in India, now in its third edition which probably explains this translated recitation.

Two more poems have been recorded by Shaheen Aggarwal – I just love the way she reads them, so expressive.

Puppy & Me was first published by The School Magazine (COUNTDOWN) in July 2006 and Nothing to Worry About was first published by The School Magazine (COUNTDOWN) in June 2006.

The School Magazine have been supporting children’s poets for over 100 years and they too have now started to utilise YouTube as another means for sharing poetry for children. Here…

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