PASSION UP A PAW PAW TREE — A Swills & Swoon Romance — ‘Ring – ring’ Timothy’s phone rent the cool, morning, sub-tropical air with mechanical insistence “Hellooo.” A voice as smooth as serpentine caressed his ear. “Goldie here, remember? You quoted on my verandah renovations; the price is right, and you seem to have […]
BLOCK: Australian Literature
The Australian Word: Australian Poetry
SEVEN SPIRITS OF THE SOUTH – 19thCentury Australian Poetry His riding boots made heavy going across the sand, the death-white winter spume of the Southern Ocean, Rider of the White Whale, dashed its spite harmlessly at his feet like a leashed terrier. Death-white also was his face; despair veiled the wild Spirit in his eyes […]
The Australian Word: Australian Colloquial Language
AUSTRALIA CALLING This article was written for an overseas readership G-day, I’m an Australian (we don’t mind ‘Aussie’), and I thought that it was time to expand your cultural horizons with an exposition on language Down Under. And talking about horizons, ours are very wide indeed – we’re not called the Land of the Never […]
The Australian Word: The Novel
A RING OF BRIGHT STARS — THE NOVEL — “Hello, I’m The Novel. No, not A novel, the Novel – or the Spirit of same actually. I’m really one of the humble earthly servants of The Word – no, not A word, the word – that highest of spiritual principles attending human culture through the […]
The Australian Word: Words & Poetry & Speech
KNOCKING DOWN WALLS ———— WITH WORDS———– The Archangel Michael stared resolutely ahead, his features set with divine commitment. He did not look at the dragon writhing under his foot – he did not acknowledge its power. The spear of ‘Mikhail’, in the beautiful Russian icon, impaled the adversary to the earth – or was […]
The Australian Word: Student Writing Sample
FLAMER This is a modern Australian tale collectively created by my students in a term-long teacher-education course on Storywriting I conducted in 1980. Most of the students became, in time, talented story-creators in their own right. This story may happen anywhere, any time, it may have happened already. Somewhere in the center of this vast […]