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Straining to fathom water filters

Overall, it’s a bit of a dampener.

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The price is fright!

And the resolution is blurry.

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Pearly prose from the western shoreline

And a volunteer with great appeal.

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Nigel’s night on the tiles

It’s all fun and games until someone loses an i.

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Hanging out. It’s a thing again

Even if it means going out on a limb.

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The search engine that saved Christmas

As long as the fatherly kickbacks keep coming.

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Periodical takes a base hit

It meant the world.

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.
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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.

How much of the material in Michael Ondaatje’s poems is non-fictional is unclear.

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.

  • Felicity Plunkett
Michael Ondaatje says his new poems are about the gathering of a life story together.

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’.

  • JP O'Malley

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