Lovely launch. Rabbit poetry publishers are awesome, and so are the people at the Hill of Content. The poets turned up, and so did the gardeners and the activists and all sorts of other excellent people. Carboniferous is now on sale at rabbitpoetry.com.
Came across a mention of this book, which might just be the bible for balcony gardeners. Reserved it at the city library. Checked out the author, Valery Tsimba, and discovered she died a few months ago, quite young. www.readings.com.au/product/9781...
Well, she's not keen on cyclamen and ivy as a pairing, or 'one of everything currently in bloom', but she likes interesting green vines and tiny trees. Each to their own.
To be fair, the author has also written on good window boxes vs boring ones. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Shame that the author didn't look at the best contemporary apartments. Mine is brilliant. www.nightingalehousing.org
Mostly I post about my balcony garden on Bluesky. But here comes the launch of my book Carboniferous, along with Dominic Symes's brilliantly titled Songs of Love and Hate Speech, on Thursday 16 April at the Hill of Content bookshop in Melbourne, 6 pm. events.humanitix.com/rabbit-poets...
He was scarily plausible. For the record, under a Hastie leadership women's rights to control their own bodies would be thrown under the next bus.
CloudGardenerUK is brilliant.
Sounds like there are one or two people in US Intelligence who are still doing their jobs. Not that Trump & co are listening.
Whatever happened to DT's support for the brave people of Iran? No drinking water?
Funnymaxxing. Curiositymaxxing. Listeningmaxxing.
Please revise into poem! That is an order!!
I still get a little shivery at the memory.
One of the best books I ever worked on, back in the 1980s, when the author got his first copy he found a line missing in the middle of a paragraph and another line substituted. He rang up. Turned out an apprentice at the printers had found a discarded line on the floor and stuck it in at random.
OMG Katherine, that is practically a novel. Or an epic poem. Your dreaming mind does not hold back.
I live in hope.
I have no special knowledge on this, but I think it's possible that if Albo had had enough of being PM and Chalmers took over, we would have a rational cost-benefit assessment of AUKUS within weeks.
I go to the Brunswick Baths gym, plenty of older people, people with disabilities etc, but also usually some bloke trying to wreck his shoulders, or other body parts. Or, of course, working towards heart attack or stroke. It's not good to watch.
Brilliant, thank you Robyn. Good to have my body's experiences validated by someone who actually understands what's going on. I said to the trainer who was setting up my routine, one thing I don't want is getting injured!
Also, I am massively unimpressed by the blokes in the gym who seem to spend their time trying to break some personal record while pushing their weights beyond the limits of safety. I assume they just turn up from time to time in between injuries?
I've started working out at the gym (again) while continuing a less demanding short workout at home most mornings. Have discovered that if I start with very very light dumbbells, and then double the weight, the later exercises feel more effective, and more tiring. I don't understand this.
Totally agree. However, watching all this from Australia I think splitting prominent Republicans away from Trump is magnificent. Congratulations to the people of Minnesota.
There are unknown people whose boats were shot up, who may or may not have been drug smugglers, who also didn't deserve to be killed. How many people have died since USAID was destroyed? Alex Pretti's death is not less outrageous because there are other deaths. Remember them all.
Really appreciate your work. You are making it possible for future prosecutors to do a thorough job.
What would the odds be for Adler taking over the whole Festival in order to sort out the crisis?
On the other hand, I wasn't planning to buy Randa Abdel-Fattah's new novel, but now I'm off to my local bookshop, where I'm expecting it will have sold out, to order a copy.
Probably not. Check her record on this kind of thing.
The shopping trolley is essential in a walkable neighbourhood. Never, ever drive to the supermarket.
FWIW I do wonder if the Murdoch press is applying lessons learnt from the destabilising of the UK Labour Party using anti-semitism as the catalyst. I'm told they've been working on this for years in Australia.
Maybe we could have a Royal Commission that also investigated other bad actors like the Christchurch murderer (white Australian), focussing on the difficulty of identifying lone nutters before they do anything, and including the role of the media in whipping up irrational anger?