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Bad Poetry

Like the lady said.

It’s been a long time between haiku.

New widow.

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    • Communications consultancy
  • Travel writing
    • Broome
    • Chilli Beach murmuration
    • Loyalty Island hopping
    • Monolithos: the arse end of Santorini
    • Sifnos, Cyclades, Greece
    • Dive in to Niue
    • Head in the clouds in Vietnam
    • Samoa
  • Bad Poetry
    • It’s been a long time between haiku
    • New widow
  • Book reviews
    • Abrahamson, Eric, & Freedman, David H. A Perfect Mess: The hidden benefits of disorder
    • Ajani, Judith. The Forest Wars
    • Alaa Al Aswany. The Yacoubian Building
    • Allaway, Zia, Leendertz, Lia, and Jennifer Wilkinson. How to grow practically everything: 100s of Australian gardening projects
    • Allon, Fiona. Renovation Nation: Our obsession with home
    • Asher, Rebecca. Shattered: Modern motherhood and the illusion of equality
    • Barlow, Maude. Blue Covenant: The global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water
    • Bumbly, Terence. The Museum of Unnatural History
    • Carnavon, Lady Fiona. Lady Almina and the Story of the Real Downton Abbey
    • Chapman, Toryn. The Grey Cat
    • Cica, Natasha. pedder dreaming: Olegas Truchanas and a lost Tasmanian wilderness
    • Cocks, Heather & Morgan, Jessica. Spoiled.
    • Cross, Neil. Natural History
    • de Rossi, Portia. Unbearable Lightness: A tale of loss and gain
    • Doggett, Peter. There’s a riot going on
    • Donovan, Jason. Between the lines: My story uncut ______________________ O’Brien, Lucy. Madonna: Like an icon
    • Fagone, Jason. Insatiable: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
    • Flannery, Tim. An Explorer’s Notebook
    • Fogarty, Anne. The Art of Being A Well Dressed Wife
    • Forsyth, Kate. Bitter Greens
    • Fossum, Karin. Bad Intentions
    • Freeman, John (Ed.). Granta 116: Ten years later
    • Fritze, Ronald H. Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions
    • Gordon, Lyndall. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds
    • Habib, Mamdouh with Julia Collingwood. My Story
    • Harari, Fiona (Ed.). Elders: Interviews with Andrew Denton
    • Hayes, Shannon. Radical Homemakers: Changing the world from your own backyard
    • His Holiness the Dalai Lama. My Spiritual Autobiography
    • Hitchings, Henry. The language wars: A history of proper English
    • Holmes, Katie. Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens
    • Humphreys, Helen. The Reinvention of Love
    • Jaivin, Linda. The Monkey and the Dragon
    • Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son
    • Johnson, Sylvia. Watch out for me
    • Jones, Noreen. North to Matsumae: Australian whalers to Japan
    • Joosten, Melanie. Berlin Syndrome
    • Kampusch, Natascha. 3096 days
    • Keith Suter’s local notebook: 50 things you want to know about Australian and world issues … but were too afraid to ask
    • Keneally, Tom. Three Famines
    • Kennedy, Thomas E. In the Company of Angels
    • Kimm, Gabrielle. His Last Duchess
    • Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: One year of seasonal eating
    • Learner, Tobsha. Yearn: Tales of lust and longing
    • Lester, Libby. Giving Ground
    • Maas, Jane. Mad Women.
    • Maclean, Shona. A Game of Sorrows
    • Marr, David. Panic
    • McGivering, Jill. The Last Kestrel
    • McLarty, Ron. Traveller
    • McNeal, Tom. To be sung underwater
    • Mills, Magnus. A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In
    • Monboit, George. Heat _____________ Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth _______ Stiglitz, Joseph. Making Globalisation Work
    • Mosse, Kate. Sepulchre
    • Neighbour, Sally. The mother of Mohammed
    • Nowak, Martin with Roger Highfield. Super Cooperators: Evolution, altruism and human behaviour (or, why we need each other to succeed)
    • Osbourne, Sharon. Revenge
    • O’Loughlin, Fiona. Me of the Never Never
    • Penenberg, Adam L. Viral Loop: the power of pass-it-on
    • Rimington, Stella. Rip Tide
    • Robinson, Peter. Bad Boy
    • Rocha, Luís Miguel. The Holy Assassin
    • Salmon, Peter. The Coffee Story
    • Showalter, Elaine. A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
    • Smiley, Jane. Private Life
    • Strauss, Neil. Emergency
    • Tammer, Daniel. Born on a Blue Day __________ Moore, Patrick. Tweaked _____________ Burroughs, Augusten. Possible Side Effects
    • The On-Nibus
    • Udall, Brady. The Lonely Polygamist
    • Vaillant, John. The Tiger: A true story of vengeance and survival
    • Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones
    • White, Dan. The Cactus Eaters
    • Wright, Richard B. Mr Shakespeare’s Bastard
    • Young, Louisa. My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
  • Essays and creative writing
    • Amalfi bowl (Stories about random inanimate objects)
    • Ekka
    • First peoples, move to the front: Richard Bell’s Biennale
    • Garden’s Gone
    • Jackie Chan injury map
    • Nine lives
    • Out of the minni vault
    • Sex and the singles
    • The night they freed Nelson Mandela
    • Underfoot
    • What’s wrong with the world tomorrow?
    • Yoga for homeschoolers
  • Blog
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