by Anne Skyvington | Jan 12, 2025 | Writing Spirit
WRITING AS A SOLITARY ACT Let’s face it: Writing is often a solitary business but one that is worth every drop of blood that you shed as you lock yourself away in a room. For that reason, we all need strategies to help us stay with the creative task and manage...
by Anne Skyvington | Aug 11, 2024 | Poetry
Judith Wright has been called ‘the conscience of the nation’ for her commitment to the environment and Aboriginal land rights. Nevertheless, it is for her poetry that she is best remembered, poetry which has helped shape Australia’s perception of...
by Anne Skyvington | Jul 28, 2024 | Poetry, Writing Spirit
Research book (a gem) that I discovered and used for this post: The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine: [Edited by Kaveh Akbar, Penguin Random House UK, 2022] Rumi: 1207- Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven Many Sufis believed that alcoholic...
by Anne Skyvington | Mar 20, 2024 | Writing Australia
A Personal Journey The 1970s were a time of great change in Australia. This post is based on my memories of that time and the beginning of the Women’s Movement in Sydney, Australia. By 1972, the fledgling beginnings of a feminist movement were evident in...
by Anne Skyvington | Mar 8, 2024 | Writing Topics
What are the four waves of feminism? And what comes next? I have republished this article by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa from “The Conversation” under a Creative Commons license. Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, University of Wollongong In Western countries,...
