Claire’s Blog
APAD2019 these red threads
These red threads these red threads once shouted bright called to bees we hide the treasure you seek come search come find come feast go carry our...
APAD2019 Sweet feed
Sweet feed hungry bees burrow deep into blossom collar seek buried treasure More
Overlooked
he lumbers up behind me to where I sit silent watching his lava breath singes my hair flames my ear he peers over my shoulder as if...
APAD Same sound, different light
Same sound, different light silent in the day each footstep and every breath shouts in the darkness More
APAD the next one
The next one snap-dried fuchsia blooms scorched by single heatwave day maintain their colour More
APAD6 – Feijoa
Feijoa Feijoa firework petals and gold light tips you are un-flamed matchsticks brighting up the green More
What day is it? APAD5
What day is it? underneath your feet cloverly cloverly bloom unnoticed in the grass Another
Think it’s going to be one of those months … aka APAD2
A Poem a Day - Day 2 Perhaps it is unrealistic to think that this particular January is going to see a poem every day here. Who knows? I've been...
Day One … ah … Two of A Poem a Day 2019 (aka APAD2019)
A Poem a Day 2019 Happy New Year! I was all geared up to start this yesterday but instead we had a grand lunch feast yesterday which morphed into...
PLAYSCHOOL!
What a thrill to hear Hunter Page-Lochard read Dingo on Playschool this morning!
A couple more pictures from MARC Lit Fest at Eildon
There Was an Old Sailor is always great fun to share with young students. It lends itself to a whole range of language games, sung and spoken. The...
Dam fine
Annually since the horrific bushfires in 2009, with a group of writers and illustrators I have been part of a Literary Festival in the region...
Summer is coming
Summer is approaching. Apparently. Yesterday it felt closer than it does today, but that's always the case in Melbourne, where I live. Variety....
Feedback
As an author doing school visits, it's difficult sometimes to judge how a session has been received. So it's always lovely to receive feedback from...
Book Week: before, during and after
'Koala' was an Honour Book in this year's CBCA Awards, in the Eve Pownell category. What a thrill to be in Brisbane with illustrator Julie Vivas for...
Ballarat and Willylitfest
I headed up the Western Highway this week for two days working in Ballarat. The first day was 3 sessions with the Young Writers, selected upper...
