Sunday, October 26, 2014

It's always nice to have a break from your usual weekly routine, spending a day at the Applecross Senior High School. It was a great alternative and exceptional time. I spent two separate hours with Year 11 students (also separate classes) and we worked on some poetry, mainly looking at metaphor. The task was to write about their family, eg. mother, father, and possibly two siblings. I used a workshop written by Canadian poet Patrick Lane who has his own wonderful images. However, one young boy wrote a very funny line;- "my brother is a rash, and is always irritating."

Class teacher is Veronica Lake, who painstakingly every year publishes a book of poetry with prize winners from all submitted high schools. This year the first prize winner blitzed the prize with a great poem titled, Wholly in the Deep.

Copies of this anthology can be bought from me by telephoning 0404666156, or through the Applecross Senior High School, Western Australia.

http://www.applecross.wa.edu.au/

Friday, October 17, 2014




Travel Mementos
               for Lucas North (1973-2013)

Wherever we went,
I brought one home,
a mug, teaspoon or book filled
with the memories of our travels.

Of all the fridge magnets
on the door, you said.
There's too many. What do you
want them for?

To recount where we’ve been, I said
what we did and saw.
I pointed to the Del Rio pelican
in the Hawkesbury scene.

Remember the kangaroos crowding
the golf course at dusk?
From the top of a kitchen shelf
I lifted a candle, dark as a pint of ale.

And look! These four magnets
mapped our circling through the mountains,
from Ocean Beach to Patonga, 
from Saratoga to Umina.

And here‘s the riverboat at Spencer,
our last stop before a treacherous climb,
those boggy edges slipping us
to my brother's Hunter Valley farm.

Left on your desk now, a curled notebook;
sodden rain caught us camping in November.

The bright glow of your frame survives, the
day you slipped an arm around the bronzed
Solomon Wiseman. A cap angled on his rigid
head, bringing the green back into your eyes.




Sunday, October 5, 2014

Bounty

Bounty
Prose Poetry

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett
A Family Saga

The Ozone Cafe

The Ozone Cafe
White Collar Crime

The Last Asbestos Town

The Last Asbestos Town
Available from Amazon

Evangelyne

Evangelyne
Published by Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne

of Arc & Shadow

of Arc & Shadow
Published by Sunline Press, WA

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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

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