Monthly Archive for: ‘December, 2021’

What to read on your holidays? Try these …

I read SO many good books this year … but here are some highlights to inspire your holiday reading. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams – Sparked by the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary, this wonderful tale explores missing words and the lives women lived between the lines. As Esme discovers: language shapes

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‘The breathing place’

A breathing place is what poetry offered me in the back half of 2021. Sydney was in lockdown for many months – again – and it was easy to be restless. Easy for anxiety to stagger your breath. Poetry gave me different cadences to hook into. Some of which I’ve sampled here. I make my

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