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Poetry To Fill A Room

At long last my new CD is ready Irsquom very excited about it Over the years Irsquoveread many poems at my lectures and on my tours and have often been asked ifIrsquod ever recorded any of my readings So finally I decided it was time to do so I

found a recording firm [hellip]

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Once upon a time there were four little rabbits

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ldquoOnce upon a time there were four little rabbits and their names were FlopsyMopsy CottonshyTail and Peterrdquo hellip and now one of those rabbits is on a new

British Royal Mint 50p piece To mark 150 years since Beatrix Potterrsquos birth hermuch loved bunny has become the very first character from childrenrsquos literature

to [hellip]

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Jane to Georgette

For Sydney based Georgette Heyer lovers the second Australian conferenceon this incomparable author will be held at The Epping Club on Sunday 7thAugust 2016 Speakers will include Jennifer Kloester biographer of Heyer

Susannah Fullerton president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia authorof several books on aspects of Jane Austen and noted literary guide and

lecturer [hellip]

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Poem of the Month ndash May 2016 ndash The Zulu Girl

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The Zulu Girl by Roy Campbell When in the sun the hot red acres smoulderDown where the sweating gang its labour plies A girl flings down her hoe andfrom her shoulder Unslings her child tormented by flies She takes him to a ring

of shadow pooled By the thornshytree purpled with the blood [hellip]

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ldquoIf I read a book that impresses me I have to take myself firmly in handbefore I mix with other people otherwise they would think my mind

rather queerrdquo mdash Anne Frank

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Poetry To Fill A Room

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At long last my new CD is ready Irsquom very excited about it Over the years Irsquove read many poems atmy lectures and on my tours and have often been asked if Irsquod ever recorded any of my readings Sofinally I decided it was time to do so I found a recording firm chose some favourite poems wrote ascript to introduce them and did the actual recording The result is Poetry to Fill a Room Englishnovelist Arnold Bennett once said that ldquoif there was one word that could clear a public placehellipquicker than any other that word was poetryrdquo That is such a pity ndash poetry should fill a room withpeople not empty it I hope that my readings will persuade you to spend more time enjoying poetry

The hardest part of making the CD was choosing the poems I have so many favourites Irsquove tried toprovide a nice variety ndash comic poems war poems sonnets and lyrics well-known favourites and afew lesser known gems

I had such fun making the CD ndash I do hope you enjoy it

Order online now for $22 (postage included) or you can buy it direct at my talks

You can now personalise your CD with an inscription and signature ORDER NOW

What do you think of the poems Leave a comment below

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Once upon a time there were four little rabbits

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ldquoOnce upon a time there were four little rabbits and their names were Flopsy Mopsy CottonshyTail and Peterrdquo hellip andnow one of those rabbits is on a new British Royal Mint 50p piece

To mark 150 years since Beatrix Potterrsquos birth her much loved bunny has become the very first character fromchildrenrsquos literature to appear on an official UK coin when it was released at the end of February this year Itrsquos aspecial coloured coin so Peterrsquos blue jacket is actually blue The original The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first publishedin 1902

Three more characters Jemima PuddleshyDuck TiggyshyWinkle and Squirrel Nutkin will feature on further special editioncoins released later in the year to complete a fourshypiece set

Looking at the Royal Mint website stock of all these special coins is all but exhausted Has anyone been lucky enoughto order one

Featured image creditshy Royal Mint Commemorative Collectable Coins Beatrix Potter httpwwwroyalmintcomourshycoinsevents150thshyanniversaryshyofshybeatrixshypottershy2016

Tagged Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter

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Jane to Georgette

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For Sydney based Georgette Heyer lovers the second Australian conference on thisincomparable author will be held at The Epping Club on Sunday 7th August 2016

Speakers will include Jennifer Kloester biographer of Heyer Susannah Fuller ton president of theJane Austen Society of Australia author of several books on aspects of Jane Austen and noted literaryguide and lecturer published writers Anne Gracie Alison Goodman and Isolde Martyn who willshare their love of Heyer and how she has influenced their novels and other Heyer aficionados whoare looking forward to sharing their joy in and knowledge of Heyer

This is going to be a very special day You will need to book quickly as we expect it to book out fastClick here to view or download the booking form I hope to see you there

Love Georgette Heyerrsquos books Check out this site Jane to Georgette or the Facebook page

Featured image credit- The Music Room George Goodwin Kilburne (1839-1924) Oil On Panel 304 X 406cm Public Domainht tps commonswikimediaor gwindexphpcur id=10062009

Tagged Georgette Heyer

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Poem of the Month ndash May 2016 ndash The Zulu Girl

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The Zulu Girl by Roy Campbell

When in the sun the hot red acres smoulderDown where the sweating gang its labour pliesA girl flings down her hoe and from her shoulderUnslings her child tormented by flies

She takes him to a ring of shadow pooledBy the thornshytree purpled with the blood of ticksWhile her sharp nails in slow caresses ruledProwl through his hair with sharp electric clicks

His sleepy mouth plugged by the heavy nippleTugs like a puppy grunting as he feelsThrough his frail nerves her own deep languorrsquos rippleLike a broad river sighing through the reeds

Yet in that drowsy stream his flesh imbibesAnd old unquenched unsmotherable heatshyThe curbed ferocity of beaten tribesThe sullen dignity of their defeat

Her body looms above him like a hillWithin whose shade a village lies at restOr the first cloud so terrible and stillThat bears the coming harvest in its breast

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The South African poet journalistand producer Roy Campbell ca1946 ndash Image by copy HultonshyDeutschCollectionCORBIS

Roy Campbell (1901 ndash 1957) was a South African poet His actual name was Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell which is arather wonderful name for a poet but he chose to publish under the name of lsquoRoyrsquo He published mainly between the two WorldWars and was a controversial poet attacking Marxism and Freudianism supporting Franco in the Spanish Civil War and writingsatirical verse

This poem about a Zulu mother feeding her baby is both powerful and tragic We see the girl working on a scorched red farm partof a working ldquogangrdquo She has little individuality no name is given for her Then she flings down her hoe and turns from mass ruralproduction to the responsibilities of reproduction ndash she breastfeeds her child Probably she is not a wife but she certainly loves herchild caressing his hair shading him with her body Her deep feelings ldquoripplerdquo through her passing into the baby She seems wearyher life appears to be a hopeless and a hard one and yet a kind of pride in her tribersquos history an ldquoold unquenched unsmotherableheatrdquo pulses through her as she takes satisfaction in nourishing her child In the last stanza we are looking up at her like the babyand she seems statuesque and elemental like a hill and ldquolike a great storm cloudrdquo while the phrase ldquoa coming harvestrdquo gives somehope for her future

Campbell arouses our sympathy for this strong silent woman he makes us think of the plight of her people a once proud warriortribe that once ruled a kingdom but is now working for low pay for other rulers and he depicts rural hardship Itrsquos a simple directand moving poem about colonialism about motherhood and about poverty

Enjoy a reading of the poem by Tom OrsquoBedlam

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Featured image creditshy James Hopkinsons Plantation slaves planting sweet potatoes (c 1862) By Henry P Moore ndash Library of Congress (Image page) Public Domainhttpscommonswikimediaorgwindexphpcurid=4853695Body image creditshy ca 1946 UK mdash The South African poet journalist and producer Roy Campbell (1901shy1957) ca 1946 ndash Image by copy HultonshyDeutsch CollectionCORBIS

Tagged Roy Campbell