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Olympic Tales V
Humorist Lennie Lower, the author of Here's Luck, wrote regular columns for a range of journals and newspapers including the Australian Women’s Weekly, Daily Telegraph and Smith's Weekly. In his column ‘Off to the Olympic Games’ ... |
03/08/2012 8:13:03 AM |
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Olympic Tales IV
Australia’s children’s writers have, from time to time, turned their creative minds to tales of the Olympic Games. Sarah Brennan tells the story of a marathon-winning rodent in The Tale of Run Run Rat, while Sally Odgers features the animal ... |
02/08/2012 8:21:14 AM |
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Olympic Tales III
Charles Wiltens Andree Hayward may not be a name on the tip of today’s literary tongues, but the English-born poet who arrived in Australia in 1894 holds the record for greatest number of poems by a single author on AustLit. Of Hayward’s 2,939 ... |
01/08/2012 10:16:59 AM |
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Olympic Tales: II
Who killed the 'beautiful', 'wealthy', but 'selfish and heartless', Irene Francis? Was it her husband, a 'rich Queenslander', or was it Larry Bannerman, 'handsome young athlete' and 'likely gold-medallist' at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics? Or was it ... |
31/07/2012 8:37:27 AM |
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Olympic Tales: I
London’s Olympic Park is not only the major site for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it is also home to a new poetry installation. An initiative of William Sieghart, founder of the UK’s National Poetry Day, the Winning Words ... |
30/07/2012 10:20:22 AM |
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John Kinsella in London for Poetry Parnassus
Australian poet John Kinsella will represent Australia at this week’s Poetry Parnassus in London. Part of the London 2012 Festival, the Poetry Parnassus is a week-long event celebrating ‘international poetry and the spoken word’. Each of ... |
25/06/2012 10:07:22 AM |