Blowing Up Balloons: baby poems for parents and Monji Tea new parent teabags are now available in WrappedToYou gift hampers. Australian supplier of hampers and gifts, WrappedToYou, ships world-wide from their office in Newcastle, New South Wales. Beautiful new parent gift hampers can be purchased direct from the WrappedToYou website: wrappedtoyou.com.au. Blowing Up Balloons (BUB),… Read More Baby Poems now in WrappedToYou Gift Hampers
Vanessa Proctor and Kent MacCarter appeared last month at Smith’s Alternative in Canberra (Australia). Smith’s is a fun venue that offers live music, comedy and/or poetry almost every night of the week. After the usual open mic session, award-winning Sydney poet, Vanessa Proctor, stepped to the stage presenting a selection of her Japanese genre, short… Read More Smith’s Alternative: Vanessa Proctor and Kent MacCarter
The final Brush With Poetry for 2018 will be held on Sunday 25 November. Brush With Poetry, which provides a wonderful afternoon of open mic poetry, is organised by the Binalong Arts Group. Entry is free, though a small donation is appreciated. As always, Brush With Poetry will kick off at 2:00pm so please arrive around… Read More Brush With Poetry: 25 November 2018
The Canberra Times newspaper continues to support Australian poetry by publishing a new poem each week in its Poetry Corner. The poems appear in Saturday’s Panorama arts and entertainment supplement. If you have access to the print edition of the Canberra Times, I can recommend Panorama for its regular coverage of literary matters. A big thank… Read More Canberra Times: Poetry Corner
This year, 2018, marks the 25th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Canberra (Australia) and Nara (Japan). To celebrate the occasion, Saeko Ogi, Amelia Fielden and Noriko Tanaka have edited a collection of tanka and haiku by Australian and Japanese poets. The publication is titled Poetry Bridges: Canberra/Nara Commemorative Anthology. The Australian launch of Poetry… Read More Canberra/Nara Poetry Anthology
Canberra poet, Hazel Hall, has teamed with tai chi practitioner and teacher, Angelina Egan, to produce a chapbook titled Step by Step. Their book was published earlier this year by Picaro Poets, an imprint of Ginninderra Press. Step by Step presents the 24 posture tai chi chuan, a popular short form tai chi sequence practised… Read More Hazel Hall and Angelina Egan: Step by Step
Brush With Poetry will offer another great afternoon of open mic poetry on Sunday 30 September 2018. Please take note, though, the event has a new venue. Brush With Poetry will now take place at Café On Queen, located at 15 Queen Street, Binalong, New South Wales. Café On Queen is an old building with… Read More Brush With Poetry: 30 September 2018
Monji Tea has added to their range of gift packs containing haiku by Vanessa Proctor and myself. Monji Tea’s delightful gift packs for New Parents contain 10 pyramid teabags containing your choice of either the highest quality organic English breakfast tea, or peppermint tisane. And on the tag of each teabag is one of the… Read More Baby Poems from Monji Tea
