Lovely words by Heather Taylor-Johnson in InReview: https://www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/books-poetry/2026/03/26/book-review-scared-angry-laughing-or-how-to-fix-the-world?
Sorry if you keep getting the same post over and over!! I’m having a tussle with WordPress – and it won’t let me answer comments. Software that is smarter then I am (or so it thinks!).
A free Pink Shorts panel at Constellations (Not-Writers-Week) Adelaide 2nd March.
Register at https://events.humanitix.com/constellations-at-the-exchange
An accolade from the wonderful Margot Lloyd (among InDaily’s best books of this century): “Margaret Merrilees‘s Big Rough Stones (Wakefield Press) – Adelaide’s own Tales of the City – is a gorgeous celebration of sisterhood and community.”
See here for the others! InDaily
Yes, I was one of them last Sunday, protesting about Santos sponsorship of the Tour Down Under. Not dignified, but whatever it takes to stop coal oil and gas by midnight tonight. That’s how much time we’ve got left to avoid even bigger climate disasters.
We particularly liked the above headline. As in ‘let’s go down to the beach with some other partially naked pensioners and stroll among the almost totally naked youth’.
In the Advertiser I look as though I’ve been in a pickle jar for the last ten years, but never mind!
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