-
Recent Posts
Archives
- August 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- November 2017
- March 2017
- October 2016
- September 2016
- June 2016
- April 2016
- September 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- November 2013
- September 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- March 2013
- July 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
Topics
Meta
-
Join 477 other followers
Blogroll
- Anne Collins
- Anne Morgan
- art
- Backyards
- Bao Zhao
- Basho
- Birds
- Bob Brown
- Bob Jager.
- Bruny Island Environmental Network
- C.J.Denis Award
- Charlotte Wood
- Chinese poetry
- cloudcatchers
- collection of poems
- Dr Robert Pyle
- Duncan Merrilees
- Eric Rolls
- Forests
- Gina Mercer
- haibun
- haiku
- Hobart Bookshop
- Ian Jeanneret
- Ian Johnston
- Inverawe
- Island
- Japan
- John Bird
- Karen Knight
- landscape
- Lyn Reeves
- Mark Tredinnick
- Meryl Parker
- nature poetry
- nature writing
- Nigel Featherstone
- Northern Rivers Writers' Centre
- Olvar Wood
- painting
- paper wasp
- Pardalote Press
- pastoral poetry
- Patrice Newell
- Pete Hay
- Peter Grant
- Peter Shepherd
- photographs
- poetry
- Postcards from the Asylum
- Prizes
- prose
- publications
- Rachel Carson
- retreat
- Rohan Wilson
- Sandra Rofe
- sense of place
- Shambles
- Sharon Dean
- Stanley and Kaisa Breeden
- Tanya Massy
- tasmanian writers
- Tasmanian Writers' Centre
- Terry Whitebeach
- The Mozi
- The Nature Conservancy
- Verity La
- Watermark Literary Society
- Watersmeet
- Wildcare
- workshop
- workshops
- writing about place
- Zen of Place
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Landscapes of the heart
Two of the blogs I subscribe to have recently featured posts on a sense of place. Both are by writer, Nigel Featherstone. In his own blog he reflects on the part landscape plays in his life, and in his posting … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, Uncategorized, Writing about Place
Tagged landscape, Nigel Featherstone, Verity La
Leave a comment
A Course in Nature Writing
Olvar Wood is a Queensland business offering, among other services for writers, an online course in nature writing. They also publish a blog on nature writing, ‘notes from olvar wood’. You can follow it here.
Eric Rolls Prize -Larry Comes to Bulurru
The Eric Rolls Prize is a biennial prize for natural history writing in honour of the great Australian nature writer and natural historian, Eric Rolls. Stanley and Kaisa Breeden are this year’s winners with their joint entry “Larry Comes to … Continue reading
Wildcare Winner
Last Saturday night at the Ten Days literary celebration at the Republic Bar & Cafe in North Hobart, Peter Grant from Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife announced the winner of the Wildcare Nature Writing Prize. Congratulations to Peter Shepherd from NSW … Continue reading
Frangipani
Here’s a poem written in a very special place where I stayed on a writer’s residency in NT. Getting away to write poetry is a fabulous luxury, but you can get lonely for home. I’m delighted that the poem appears … Continue reading
fortyspot 