STOP PRESS: BRISBANE POET SHORTLISTED FOR ABR POETRY PRIZE

Announced in the April 2010 edition of the Australian Book Review, this year's five
shortlisted poets' names and entries can be found on the ABR website.

The winner will be announced in the May edition.

ABR Shortlisted Brisbane Poet Ynes Sanz.

Poppies in the Gardens

Click to see details of this special event in the symbolic Freedom Wall pavilion at

Brisbane's Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.

A bit of a Song and Dance

If you're in Brisbane, you might consider the invitation on this flyer ....


A few clicks on the image will let you see the fine print ... and the splendid dancer.

Thespianism: No. 9 in an occasional series entitled 'Harmless Hobbies for Mad Old Bags'.

Some of us were in Alice in Wonderland before Johnny Depp was born.....

Seen here, the Chislehurst Road Infants' School, Orpington, Kent, England
performance, c. 1954.

CAST LIST:
Gail Foster - Alice
Marian Wiseman - The March Hare
Leslie Adams - The Dormouse
and David Something-or-other that I have forgotten (the teachers only shouted his first name) as The Mad Hatter

No green screen for us, it was one night only and if you froze you were finished.

Don't make 'em like that any more.