Claire’s Blog
Literature Festival
I'm very much looking forward to this annual MARC Literature Festival, this year hosted by Marysville Primary School. MARC = Mobile Area Resource...
Update October 2019
Update October 2019 Coming Soon (2020): Kookaburra, illustrated by Tannya Harricks, published Walker Books Australia Haywire, a novel Scholastic...
Peaking
Bookweek is peak school-visit time for writers and illustrators and over recent years, the 'week' has (fortunately) extended to a much longer time....
A coupla pics
Thank you Robinsons Bookshop (Werribee) for supporting my visit to Tarneit Library. The wonderful Tarneit (Wyndham) Library. Thanks for such a warm...
From here to there
I am halfway through a schedule of four events in less than 7 days. Not that I'm thinking this is necessarily a heavy speaking load, but it is...
Paperback Writer
It's been a week or so of parcels. I love parcels. Who doesn't? Each one of the parcels has contained books. There were paperback editions of Koala...
Oh, what a night!
It started with a - no, not a kiss, although it's possible that my header suggested a song. It started with a 'The Anzac Billy' event at my...
The Anzac Billy: Post-book-release research (or … Should I have known this earlier?)
The Anzac Billy - post-book-release research I visited the Alexandra Club on Wednesday and spent a wonderful hour there learning more about the...
The Anzac Billy and more …
The Anzac Billy and more I missed April 1 this year. It sailed right on by with nary a peep ... Not that I celebrate it particularly, but I just...
A Big Week
I take a lot of photos. Taking photos makes me slow down and focus on tiny things and in many ways, it's a meditation. But there's not been a lot of...
Coming Soon – The Anzac Billy
Coming Soon - The Anzac Billy The first copy of The Anzac Billy arrived in my letterbox last week. And it's so beautiful. The artwork by Mark...
APAD2019 Dandelion
Dandelion after the yellow bright petals wither powder fluff seeds wait for wind set seeds adrift adrift adrift float where the wind wills softly...
APAD2019 Garden mathematics
Garden mathematics succulent layers petals or red-edged leaves spiral from the core More Poetry
APAD2019 Precision
Precision row after row petals open in prescribed sequence frills and flounces as ordered as any parade ground march More
APAD2019 Scotch Thistle
Scotch thistle green pineapple spikes barricade against invaders until you flower More
APAD2019 Stars
Stars tiny star clusters soft-nested on broad green sky silent starburst blooms More
