by Anne Skyvington | Oct 17, 2023 | Short Stories
A story about a naïve traveller in a strange land I open my eyes wide onto a strange world into which I’ve stumbled as if by accident. All is new and filled with an alien glow, muted colours, greys yet beautiful. Hippies are twanging their guitars along the Seine....
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 13, 2023 | Short Stories
Jeannie is one of these inch worm types. One toe in, one toe back. The cold has always been alien. From birth, really. Even today, she shivers with the water temperature around 20 degrees. Babies are gurgling in mothers’ arms in the pool, for God’s sake. Cassius with...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 12, 2023 | Poetry, Writing A Novel
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 4, 2023 | Writing A Novel, Writing Australia
I’ve always liked Susan Johnson’s writing, ever since I found a piece by her in the Griffith Review Journal (Number 32), in which she painted a picture of motherhood that I empathised with. I used it as an example of voice in fiction in a post on this...
by Anne Skyvington | Aug 22, 2023 | Writing Spirit
The Golden Ratio Many buildings and artworks reflect the Golden Ratio: the Parthenon in Greece, and many other classical buildings in Europe. But it is not really known if it was designed that way. Some artists and architects believe the Golden Ratio makes the most...
