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The afterlives of writers’ houses

I was lucky enough to attend a session with the same name as this post at the BSANZ conference in Ōtepoti Dunedin last month. Five people with intimate knowledge of writers’ houses and residencies came together to share their thoughts during the closing session. The moderator Karin Warnaar began by quoting W.H. Auden on Yeats’ death:…

Breath Pattern

Photo taken from the Material Thinking website I have encountered the Breath Pattern installation in Mildura near the Murray/Millewa river a number of times but had never fully understood what it represented. I knew that it was in honour of the poet John Shaw Neilson but some elements remained mysterious to me. Breath Pattern is…


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