Tania McCartney’s new picture book Smile Cry is published in Australia this April and offers a unique and subtle exploration of children’s emotions. It’s also the tip of the iceberg in terms of McCartney’s amazing creative output—which is almost as huge as her love of raspberries! What’s unique about your new picture book, Smile Cry
Here’s my project. I read a poem a day, imbibe its rhythms and use this as an inspiration for my own writing. Because it’s 2016, I’ll choose 16 quotes from 16 of these poems to feature on A Bigger Brighter World so you’ll get to enjoy a taste of them too. I may not manage
Nobody does melancholic reverie quite like the American author, poet, singer and songwriter Patti Smith. Her autobiography, M Train, published late last year, has this elegiac and quietly celebratory quality in spades. Imagine life passing like a train trip. Snatches, fragments, impressions caught along the way and recorded, then simmered and stirred into poetic prose.
I loved Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn so I was most pleased to be able to offer Australian readers five in-season double passes to the film adaptation, described as an ‘immaculately crafted, immensely moving character study about a 1950s immigrant struggling to find her place in the world’. Competition winners came from all over Australia: Mt
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