Leigh Hobbs, this year’s Australian Children’s Laureate, is about to give a lecture, The Mystery of Visual Literacy, to the three quarters full auditorium in the state library, Queensland. The talk has been sponsored by Book Links and the Queensland Writer’s Centre. Scanning the audience I see many of my Writelinks buddies, visitors from theContinue reading “Mystery of Visual Literacy – Leigh Hobbs Laureate at Large”
The Smell of Books is in the air
Originally posted on Magic Fish Dreaming:
We arrive at Fergies, press the button to go in, enter, and it’s then that we are hit by that scent which transports the traveler to: bookshops, libraries and printing presses. The seriously delicious smell of books surrounds us. The scent of our book will soon call out to…
Losing the North
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Licuala palms I lost your Licuala fan palm once seen everywhere unless I found it in a special garden collecting palms from every land and then I lost your rhythm of heavy rain falling again and again until the garden was a lake and the day off work – that…
Mind of Forests
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
One must have a mind of forests branches creaking with the wind a song of long forgotten ones that fell to be covered by shades of green, rich and velvet tasted by the eyes cupped in bowl like hands then eaten for future dreams. Light sneaks in from the sky…
Two Bright Orbs: Shining the Light of Love
When attending celebrations where unity in diversity is not just in words but in action I feel hope for the future of Australia and the World. I was so happy that my family were able to experience the inspiring coming together of the diversity of the human family and community into one larger family atContinue reading “Two Bright Orbs: Shining the Light of Love”
