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Celebrating the poetry of jacarandas
Danebank Anglican School for Girls in Hurstville contributed poems to the Herald's poetry prize which they wrote under the school's jacaranda tree. Near the tree, they threw small bits of purple paper into the air to emulate the flowers of the jacaranda floating to the ground.
Michael Ondaatje’s latest work is in praise of long love and experience
The writer’s first collection of poetry in more than 25 years replaces the idea of ageing as diminution with a blazing and sensual testament to what is held close.
- by Felicity Plunkett
Michael Ondaatje’s ‘little fragments’ that lead to prize-winning work
The award-winning novelist says he’s writing only poetry at the moment and his new collection has an ‘elegiac tone’.
- by JP O'Malley
This festival nurtured a generation of talent. Now it’s on life support
For two decades the National Young Writers’ Festival has been a crucible for Australian literary talent, but its future is now in doubt.
- by Nell Geraets
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