Category: Guest Post
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A Guest Poem: “First Loves” by Roger Britton
Roger writes… One night, on hearing a piece of music, grief overwhelmed me. I sat down and wrote this poem, fifty-seven years after the event. I rushed into it with little regard to rhyme, rhythm or scan. Ode to Jennifer The strains of Carrick Fergus reeled my memories in, while flooding tears filled my…
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An Aussie bloke remembers: Guest post by Ian (Harry) Wells
“Life in the Forties and Fifties” by Ian (Harry) Wells “Take-away” back in the forties and fifties, when I was a kid, meant a sum in arithmetic at school. Nothing else. Certainly not a source of food. There were no mega-giants like Maccas, KFC, Pizza Hut or the like, just “chippies”. A “big mac” was…
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Visions of South Africa: a creative couple from South Africa
Garth Alperstein was born in South Africa. As well as having spent a career as a paediatrican, he has worked with indigenous Australians in the outback. And in recent times, Garth has published a memoir, The Fourpenny Axe and a Snooker Cue: eBofolo remembered with Ginninderra Press, based on his memories of his childhood spent…
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Travel Poems by a Guest Blogger
This post contribution is from my Randwick Writers colleague Garth Alperstein, originally from South Africa, but obviously a citizen of the world now, who delights in other places, faces and cultures. Garth says: When I travel, I have of late written short poems, in an attempt to encapsulate the essence of a place, an experience…