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Sixteen great quotes from the poetry I read in August 2016

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

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Sixteen great quotes from the poetry I read in July 2016

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

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Sixteen great quotes from the poetry I read in June 2016

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

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Sixteen great quotes from the poetry I read in May 2016

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

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Sixteen great quotes from the poetry I read in April 2016

In April, I’m traveling in Japan so my 16 quotes from 16 poems are by Japanese poets. Enjoy! (How do I say that in Japanese?)  1. ‘Blossoms at night’ by Kobayashi Issa Blossoms at night, / and the faces of people / moved by music. Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), also known as Kobayashi Yataro and Kobayashi

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Sixteen great quotes from the poetry I read in March 2016

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

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Sixteen great quotes from the poetry I read in February 2016

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

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Win a double pass to see Brooklyn

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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Sixteen great quotes from the poetry I read in January 2016

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

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What’s random to you is Grafton to me

A friend is setting up a theme-based book club in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills in the St George area of Sydney — not that one in California. Theme-based. (Not genre-based. Or fiction or non-fiction. Or classics or prize-winners.) Is that unusual? Can anything be unusual in book clubs? The under-one-hour-reading-club, based on something that takes

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