In December 2021 my great friend, Walter Mason and I featured in the Sydney Morning Herald’s, ‘The Two of Us’ segment in The Good Weekend magazine written by Amanda Hooton and photographed by Edwina Pickles. You can read this article on the Sydney Morning Herald’s website here. Read more
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year,’ says Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, possibly the most popular of all Christmas stories. Read more
The intensely moving love story of Yuri Zhivago and the beautiful nurse Lara is set against the backdrop of climactic Russian history – war, revolution and social upheaval. Read more
Have you heard about the book sculptures in Edinburgh? Over a number of months in 2011, an anonymous artist (we know that it is a woman) gifted to the city (first UNESCO World City of Literature) some incredibly crafted sculptures made from books. Read more
Sometimes it is the sheer love of an unusual word or name which can inspire a poem. That’s certainly the case with W.J. Turner’s poem Romance which simply revels in the names of volcanoes. Read more