Yesterday was not a good day. The weather in my hometown Melbourne can be so changeable we say it has 'four seasons in one day'. My mood is often like this too, but yesterday it was relentless cold drizzle with a major storm brewing. Anxiety that I could not shift until early evening when I …
I woke up yesterday morning thinking about National Poetry Day, which is next Thursday 3rd October. I'm going to a reading the night before, but had nothing planned for the day itself, and wasn't aware of anything happening locally. And then I thought why don't I do something myself? Something that wouldn't take too much …
The theme of this year's National Poetry Day was 'Remember', encouraging people to share a poem they know by heart. With about a week to go before the big day - Thursday 2nd October - Nick and I decided to try to memorise John Keats' untitled sonnet, reputedly the last he wrote, which starts 'Bright …
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