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Pakistan floods: how you can help

reproduced from ABC Radio National The UN estimates more than 20 million people have been made homeless by monsoonal floods that have affected 20 per cent of Pakistan’s total land area. As at 11am Friday, the Unicef appeal has raised $859,384, including a $250,000 donation from the NSW government. An estimated ten million of those are surviving on [...]

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River Readings to feature Mark Tredinnick

The next River Readings will be held at 6pm on Friday, 10 September and will feature Mark Tredinnick. Mark’s latest book, The Blue Plateau, is shortlisted for the Non Fiction category of the $100,000 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Support for the readings comes from Arts NSW. River Readings is a regular poetry reading series in the [...]

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All Poetry Competition Results 2010

First: View of Dark Point. Bruce McIntyre, Marrickville NSW Second: Poetry in the Trenches. John Upton, Burwood NSW Third: Conversation with an Aboriginal Man of High Degree in the Todd River late one night early one morning after the Cas. Steve Browne, Alice Springs NT HC: Flight of Ideas. Lyn Vellins, Alexandria  NSW C: Python Bends. Peter Mitchell, Lismore NSW C: Gallery Café. John Egan, Ashfield NSW Shortlisted Growth. Heather Kay, Cowan NSW Blockout. Susan [...]

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The poetic image to be polished in Batemans Bay

One of Australia’s truly significant poets will give a workshop in Batemans Bay in August. Susan Hampton is that rare combination, a poet and editor, and this makes her a teacher of poetry with an insight into both the creative process and polishing a poem for publication. Susan’s work has been praised by critics for [...]

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International poets read in Nowra

Three of China’s most promising emerging poets and two award-winning Australian poets will present an afternoon of public poetry readings in Nowra. This free literary event will be held from 2pm until 4pm on 24 July at the Manse on Kinghorn Street Nowra, (opposite Aldi). The readings from Debby Sou Vai Keng, Iris Fan Xing [...]

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Machteld Hali – Printmaker

“What I love about printmaking is the concept of multiple originals. There’s something magic about it, like making a stamp, 1–2–3. You have them all sitting in a row, and I enjoy that sense of childlike delight in the multiples.” Machteld Hali’s passion for printmaking can trace its origins back to potato printing as a child [...]

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• A PHILOSOPHY OF KINDNESS. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” - His Holiness the Dalai Lama #