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Author Archives: Lyn Reeves
Windfall – Australian haiku journal
It’s almost time for sending your haiku to the new journal Windfall. Submissions are accepted between 30th June and 31 July. The guidelines state : We are seeking haiku which are relevant to the experience of urban and rural life … Continue reading
More rich rewards for Nature Writing
A recent episode of Books and Arts Daily featured an interview with Stephen Wright, winner of the $5,000 Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize 2012 for his essay, Bunyip. The program also features tall tales about this mythical creature and is well … Continue reading
Bearing Witness to Place – WIldcare Prize
The winners of the 2013 Wildcare Tasmania International Nature Writing Prize were announced on March 23 at The Lark as part of the Tasmanian Writers’ Festival,during Ten Days on the Island. Tanya Massy of Brunswick West, Victoria, took out first place for her essay, … Continue reading
Celebrating our Australian Landscape through nature writing
Calls for applications for the second Nature Conservancy Australia Writing Prize opened on Monday 16 July. The prize of $5000 is for an essay between 3,000 and 5,000 words exploring the author’s relationship and interaction with some aspect of the Australian … Continue reading
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Stopped in my tracks…
One of the greatest pleasures the writing life has given me is collaborating with writers, painters, photographers, printmakers, musicians, calligraphers and film makers. In our small city of Hobart I’ve had many experiences of working with artists in other art … Continue reading
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Tagged haiga, haiku, Lyn Fabian, Lyn Reeves
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Janice M Bostok Haiku Prize
Of course, not all haiku are nature poems, but since most haiku usually feature some aspect of nature I thought it appropriate to list this competition in honour of Australia’s well-loved poet, Janice Bostok. Janice M Bostok Haiku Prize: Australia’s … Continue reading
With open eyes and hearts
While cleaning up files on my computer I came across and reread Martin Hawes’s reflections on the little book Watersmeet: haiku when he launched it at the Hobart Bookshop in 2005. As well as commenting on the book, Martin spoke insightfully … Continue reading
Disappearing Places
An exciting innovation from The Red Room Company, The Disappearing is an innovative app that explores poetry and place using geolocation technology. They are looking for poems ‘that capture the emotions, ideas and experiences associated with places that may vanish … Continue reading
Genius Loci
‘Walking barefoot on the warm stone pavement around the point this summer I looked down onto the rich ochre colour of deserts, onto the pink hues of Petra, and into the patterns of the webs connecting us. How often we … Continue reading
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Tagged Desiree Fitzgibbon, genius loci, Handmark Gallery, painting
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Attachment to Place
As part of my exploration into writing about place I talked to Pete Hay, known a ‘a trailblazer in the research and scholarship of environmental politics and policy in Australia and the founding convenor of the Ecopolitics Association of Australasia’, to … Continue reading
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