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Scifaiku accepted into Zine #3

While I wait for my five minutes of fame on the Rochford Street Review’s Bloomsday Edition, I thought I would share my other publication of a scifaiku poem that will be published in the Peter Cowan Writers Centre’s Zine #3, The Tides we Change These are the other scifaiku submitted that failed.. Two RobotsSqueak arms and legsNo knee replacements –o- Terracotta warriorsLine ten abreastNeed oil…

Stream of Consciousness

Bloomsday

Watching the Dark Slip Away

New Poem 1st Draft When news came to write a poemabout light and dark, I first thought ofnight and day, but that was too simple. Maybe, as I sat with my coffee and toast,the early morning lines of blue and pinkin the sky were more interesting as they played snakes and ladders with the clouds.The silver gum joined in with the game andas the sun rose higher in the sky, dazzled the numerous…

Women & Fiction: Fay Weldon

Looking at the short story collection; Wicked Women © Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England 1931 where her father was a physician and her mother a writer. She was educated at the University of St. Andrews, from which she received her M.A. in 1954. Six years later, she married Ronald Weldon. Weldon worked as a propaganda writer for the British Foreign Office and then as an advertising…

Women & Fiction: Flannery O'Connor

Women & Fiction: Katharine Mansfield

Looking at her short story, The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington as the daughter of a successful businessman. Her family was wealthy enough to afford to send her to Queen’s College, London for her education. She then returned to New Zealand for two years, before going back to London to pursue a literary career. She quickly fell into the bohemian way of life lived by many…

Women & Fiction: Virginia Woolf

Women & Fiction: Alice Munro

Alice Munro (born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian author writing in English. Munro’s work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Munro’s fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro’s…

Short Fiction: Daphne Du Maurier

Zoo Kangaroos

Rainbow Lorikeet

After Jane Hirshfield Please note: I have decided to image my poetry & also to record the poem, thanks for your ongoing support guys! I hope you like the new format. Copyright (c) 2026 – Photograph of Lorikeet by author (c)

Mother's Day Poems

Enjoy my Reading! Mother A mother is yellow,a sundial. She is the windowwhere the soupis cooking. In darkness, she callsfrom the landingto bring sleepy eyesup stairs for storytime.A kiss with no explanation. Mother is flour & ginger,butter & creamy beaters,knitting in the basket,pulling you roundto put your cardigan on. Mother waits in silenceno matter how late the clock. She is an old…

Joined the Crime Writers Association

Writing Memoir/Autobiography

12 Edmonstone Street by David Malouf + Writing Exercises David Malouf is an internationally acclaimed author. His books include the novels The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, and his…

David Malouf (1934-2026)

A Great Australian writer has now left us. Award-winning Australian author, poet, essayist and librettist David Malouf — perhaps most loved for his many works including 12 Edmondstone Street — has died at age 92. According to the ABC: “Once touted as a candidate for the Nobel Prize, Malouf was declared a National Living Treasure in 1997 and received the Australia Council Award for Lifetime…

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