Monthly Archive for: ‘June, 2015’

Your A to Z guide to The Simple Act of Reading
By MLJ
on June 21, 2015

Your A to Z guide to The Simple Act of Reading

‘You are what you read,’ writes Malcolm Knox in The Simple Act of Reading. ‘By digesting books I am creating myself.’ Knox is one of 21 writers in this anthology who explain how reading has shaped their identities and writing. And here’s my A to Z of why Debra Adelaide’s handpicked homage to reading should

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Waiting for the Past: A road trip to meet Les Murray
By MLJ
on June 7, 2015

Waiting for the Past: A road trip to meet Les Murray

A friend wants me to take a trip to Bunyah to visit the internationally lauded Australian poet Les Murray on his home turf. In the meantime, let’s hit the road with Murray’s latest poetry collection Waiting for the Past and see what vistas open up along the way … What sort of road trip are

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