Country Liberal Party stalwarts Dave Tollner, John Elferink, Peter Murphy were in attendance, as was of course Terry “the man who may soon be King” Mills, who waxed lyrical about Nicolas’s observations of country and his ear for recording conversations.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, Writing and writers
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Tagged Alison Anderson, Andrew McMillan, Australian Literary Review, Chips Mackinolty, Crikey, Dave Tollner, John Elferink, Malandirri McCarthy, Marion Scrymgour, Nicolas Rothwell, On the Roadhouse, Peter Cochrane, Peter Murphy, Robert Dessaix, St Mary's Star of the Sea, Terry Mills, The Red Highway
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I’ll be travelling back up the wonderful Stuart Highway later this week en-route to home in the south-west NT and will drop in to the Iwantja Arts Centre at Indulkana in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (commonly known as the APY lands) lands of northern South Australia on the way.
I don’t know a lot about the [...]
Maybe instead of blaming the animals we should be saying “I committed a murder of a kangaroo today”, “I was driving too fast to let the Wedge-tailed Eagle get enough height to get off the roadway” or “I didn’t slow down to let that Goanna cross the road safely”.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Birds, Some places I've been, Stupidity, Writing and writers
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Tagged Alice Springs Writers' Festival, Jennifer Mills, Mary Anne Butler, Narelle Autio, Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Richard J Franklin, Roadkill, Shane Maloney, Swamp Jockeys, World Press Photo Award
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The latest edition of the National Library Magazine, from the Australian National Library in Canberra has a fascinating article by Penny on the life and works of the French naturalist and ornithologist François le Vaillant.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged Australian National University, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dr Penny Olsen, Feather and Brush, François le Vallaint, Glimpses of Paradise: The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet, Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, National Library Magazine, Natural History Museum Leiden, Wedgetailed Eagle
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April 16, 2009 – 12:57 am
The NT Writers’ Centre will run the annual Alice Springs Writers Festival, named ‘Eye of the Storm’ in Alice Springs from May 1 to 4 2009.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in The Arts, Uncategorized, Writing and writers
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Tagged Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alice Springs, Eye of the Storm, Jennifer Byrne, Jennifer Mills, Kate Grenville Shane Maloney, Linda Jaivin, NT Writers Centre, Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Shellie Morris
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$5 entry, $3 beer – no fire or liquor licenses or other permits or authorities – and Po’ Monkey vigorously enforces his own strict set of rules – no baseball caps, no guns, no baggy-ass pants – this effectively excludes young teenage gangsters from the lounge – no fighting, no beer bought in and no dope smoking.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, Uncategorized
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Tagged ABC, Bolivar county, Cleveland, Delta State University, DJ candy, Good Morning America, jook joint, Luther Brown, Memphis Tennessee, Merigold, Mississippi delta, New York Times, Po' Monkeys, Poor Monkey's jook joint, Southern Spaces, Willie Seaberry
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Fans of good crime will recall the English translations of most, if not all of the Wallander novels have been available in Australia for the last few years. I hope someone working in the ABC or SBS catches up with these films and buys them for Australian release – by all accounts it is a series well worth watching.
Crows commute, heads down,
their line of black Fords slow
but steady. A heron keeps his Bentley in low gear.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Birds and people, Fun stuff, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged Dave Bonta, Festival of the Trees, Juniper Press, Mark Bonta, Moving Poems, Open Micro, Postal Poetry, Qarrtsiluni, Sarah Bennett, Shadow Cabinet, Spoil, Ten Poems about Highways and Birds, The Morning Porch, Tom Montag The Sweet Bite of Morning, via negativa, Visual Soma
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