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A Poet’s Review of Magic Fish Dreaming

In secret spots, hidden pools, fields of sugar cane and tangled rainforests, June Perkins and Helene Magisson’s enchantingly illustrated poetic adventure, Magic Fish Dreaming, delves into the delights of the Wet Tropics, where poems are waiting to be caught by children curious enough to notice and question. Beginning with a hunt for a giggleContinue reading “A Poet’s Review of Magic Fish Dreaming”

Mapping the Heart: Tapping Multi-Arts – Tropical Writer’s Festival Part 2

A Program There was a lot to take in, as the sign above indicates. But it was not just a poet spouting the words on the page and seeking only the treasury of words and metaphor. She chose to enlist others talents and add dimensions of dance, song, photographic imagery. Of the performance I rememberContinue reading “Mapping the Heart: Tapping Multi-Arts – Tropical Writer’s Festival Part 2”