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Parcelling Time and Conserving Energy in Old Age
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Progress or Decline: Ageing in the Modern World
Devonshire Tea in Winter Sun for Lindy’s New Book
Exposed — Do Words Betray Who We Really Are?
The Baby SUV Invasion — A Short Story by Lindy Warrell
Who Are We? Reflections on a Life Half Hidden.
Ignorance is the Thing That Makes Me Write
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New Poems from Everyone’s a Poet at Glenelg
Social Magic — The Power of the Gift
The Presence of Spiritual Love in Poetry
Not My Country, but I Love this Land
Sometimes I Bore Myself with My Limited Life
On the Love of Dogs
A Little Poetry Freebie for My Friends
We Love to Love (or, Hate) Characters
“You’re So Strong” — Everyday Old-Lady Thoughts on Life
Who Said That? Revealing the Poet on the Page.
Lookout Now, Who Would Have Thought I’d Get to Eighty?
Secrets from One Night In Hospital
2022 A Wrap on My Almost Lost Year
A Curious Mix in Free Verse, Love and Laughter
On the Matter of Dressing Up and Down
Back Then, I Grew Up in a Different World
Serious Nonsense — On the Art of Being Uncomfortable
Photos & Words — Is Their Creative Contrivance Numinous?
Margaret, My Friend — A Unique Life
Caring for Speak Out Writers — International PEN in Adelaide
New Life in Other Hands — The Launch
This is Old Lady Speaking — Ageing Stripped Bare
Best Books from a Lifetime — A Big Ask
Memoir of My Life on the Fleurieu — ‘A Flicked Pebble’
A Big Wattletales Thank You — 2021 in Retrospect
A Special Friendship in Aldinga Beach
Love and Ritual in Sri Lanka
Putting a Spotlight on Independent Retirement Living
How We Play With Time
On Being a Patient Patient with a Broken Spine
Come Away With Me to Where the Heart Wanders
Poetry on the Go — TramsEnd Poets Loud and Live
The Fundamentals of the Gaze in Life and Writing
A Love Affair — Books and I Make Each Other
Remember the Past? I Bet You Didn’t Know This!
Time to be Thankful: A 2020 Wattletales Retrospective
An Accidental Life; Choice, Chance and Destiny.
It’s All In The Title
How Can We Know Our Mother Except In Stories?
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Dislocation
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A Touch of Magical Realism
Uncertainty, Fear and Control in Lockdown
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Two Keys to a Creative Old Age
The Power of Words
Tragedy and Despair in Fiction and Poetry
On Being a Guest Poet
Character and Characterisation in Fiction
How to Start a Life Writing Club
Creative Life Writing 101
Writing for SEO or, Clickbait
Tips and Pitfalls in Fiction Research
When Purposes Collide
Author Bios: Are you a person or an object?
My Dad was a Racegoer
The Author as Cipher*
Realising Dreams Late in Life
Attending to Ghosts
Guest Posts
Slaying the Demon of Doubt by Shaine Melrose
Introducing Marking Seasons, my new poetry collection by Valerie Volk
Play of Nature, Love and Oppression in Poetry by Kuma Raj Subedi
Chance Encounters by Mandy Tocczek McPeake
Beth Baillie’s Story — By Beth Baillie
The Creative Existence by Deb Stewart
Bewitched by Words by Virgilio Goncalves
Creativity and the Bush by Ruth Morgan
People & Their Lives Are Fascinating by Roger Rees.
The Scent of Hope by Jade Wyatt/Elizabeth Snow
The Free Pom by Susan Thrun Willett
Blood on Their Hands — A Synopsis by Warren ‘Rocky’ Porter
Reaching for the Highest Fruit by Steve Bell
The Launch of ‘Patchwork, My Life’ by Rose Boswell
My Poetic Pilgrimage by Maria Vouis
Creativity Released by Andrew Ballard
Heading Out Along the Line by Warren Porter
Metamorphosis: The Persistence of Poetry by Kathryn Pentecost
A Poetic Road Map by Mike Riddle
Painting Dreams by Julie Cahill
The Mystery of Life, Poetry and Imagination by Julie Wright
Struggle, Science and Success by Heather Webster
What Made Me a Gardener & Poet by Shaine Melrose
My Writing Journey by Craig Harris
Finally, A Beginning by Geoffrey Aitken
My Writing Life by Steve Evans
How the Hell Did I Become a Poet? by Nigel Ford
Polonius With Metaphor by David Cookson
We Were Poor, But I Felt Rich by Jude Aquilina
On the Cudlee Creek Fires, 2019 By Belinda Broughton
Trying to Retire by Liz Hirstle
The Words and Worlds of Life Writing by Luisa Redford
I Love Words by Carolyn Cordon
Stories from the Six Directions by Ivan Rehorek
Art as Meditation by Kerry Rochford
This Unwritten Life by Kerry Rochford
Life is a Journey of Exits and Entrances by Martin Christmas
More Than a Nutshell by Veronica Cookson
I am a Writer by Julie Cahill
Books
Call Me Marigold
They Who Nicked the Sun
Dressed & Uploaded
A Curious Mix in Free Verse
The Publican’s Daughter
Life Blinks
Soft Toys for Grown-ups
Ol’ Girl Can Drive
Alchemy
Ochre
Poetry
Audio
A Distinctly Aussie Morph
Who are You?
An Unquiet Garden
Mt Turn
The Shape of a Tree
Yearning
Traces
The Wedding
Caught in Rain
Co-dependence
Today’s Touch
Ol’ Girl Can Drive
It Starts With Pink and Blue
Spirits in the Wind
Too Soon
Eternity is Now
In Absentia
On Not Being Me
Old Age
My Skeleton and Me
A Federal Fiddle
A Mangled Ode
The Shame
Living Loose
The Tourist
Natural Selection?
A Bush Suite
Who Nicked the Sun?
Kintsugi
Of Heat and Flies
Into Silence
The Races
Other Writing
Events
2024 Launch of They Who Nicked the Sun
The Poetry Appreciation Society
Everyone’s a Poet Workshop
Regular Gigs until 2023-2025
2023 Dressed & Uploaded Online Launch
An Archaeology of Memory Workshop 2023
2022 Launch of A Curious Mix in Free Verse
2022 Brighton Tips & Tools Workshop
2022 Author Talk at the Brighton Civic Centre
2022 Launch of The Publican’s Daughter
2021 The Power of Poetry – TramsEnd Poets at Brighton
2020 Launch of ‘Life Blinks’
2020 Raining Poetry in the Hills
July 2019 Guest Poet at Poets Corner
2019 Spring Poetry Festival
Ol’ Girl Can Drive Launch 2018
Ginninderra Flier
Soft Toys for Grown-ups Launch 2018
2019 Launch of Friendly Street Poets 43 anthology
2018 Life Poetry Workshop – Writing from the Guts
Adelaide PEN’s Inaugural International Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2006
Promotional Tidbits
Alexandrina Council Workshop 2016
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