Skin
When I read Bhaswati Ghosh's beautiful poem this morning, I was reminded that the immigrant experience, in all its complexity, diversity and richness can still be reductive on some [...]
Addition by Toni Jordan
What a joy it is to kick off my first review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge with Toni Jordan's debut novel, Addition, published in 2008. Addition is a gorgeous [...]
Australian Women’s Writer Challenge
New Year. New Year Resolution. What to do....Give up chocolate, exercise more and be nice to my husband... I thought about each of these and discarded them as being unachievable. [...]
Fill the unforgiving minute
It’s been a while since I read Rudyard Kipling – more than forty years, I think. Yet the music of poetry ensures that I can, to this day, recite an [...]
The next wave (part 1): WA women writers to look out for
Part One in a series on women writers in WA, in which I'm featured alongside seven other writers on Amanda Curtin's blog.
What I’ve been reading
Well, theories of memory, mostly, along with narrative inquiry mixed with a dash of ethnographic self reflexive research. This 'essential' reading has been for the essay I'm writing as part [...]
Once, long ago
When we were seventeen we knew everything. We knew our lives were complicated. We knew our parents would never understand our darkest thoughts. We knew how much hearts hurt when [...]
Versatile Blogger?
My friend Louise Allan mentioned me on her blog as one of the versatile bloggers she knows; and she is an accomplished blogger/writer, so here I am - doing something [...]
Finding Jasper by Lynne Leonhardt
Lynne Leonhardt's debut novel takes us to a gentler and a more violent time in our history - a paradox that is managed in this novel with grace and clarity. [...]
India Diary – Part Four
The narrow gauge toy train staggered slowly up the steep slopes, up and up – almost 8000 feet up, towards the old summer capital of the British in India – [...]
India Diary – Part Three
The third leg of my journey took me to the nation’s capital, Delhi. We arrived here just before the spring festival of Holi and a friend invited us to her [...]
India Diary – Part Two
My first morning in the town where my parents now live looked like this.This is an army town, once known for its quiet, rustic charm and healing hill station air. [...]