by meredith@herdov.net | Dec 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last week I became Poet-in-Residence for Creative Innovation 2011, a conference presenting the ideas and advice of speakers who have extensive track records in driving, facilitating and/or theorising innovation. Not in the artistic sense but in areas of the cognitive... by meredith@herdov.net | Oct 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Celebration! On the final Saturday of the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival, one of Australia’s greatest poets came back into glorious print. To celebrate the occasion, several leading Melbourne poets were invited to read one or two poems each from the brilliant new... by meredith@herdov.net | Sep 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Always fascinating to find how the world fits in with the writing. When it does, I mean. When it does. Especially when a problem in the writing requires some ‘helping’ right answer from the world. I was reading through the final versions of the MA Carter... by meredith@herdov.net | Aug 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
At the Friend in Hand pub in Glebe.So, there we are: Poets and Wombats in the same title. Poets numbered (twenty of us) and wombats innumerable (though poets do seem to be multiplying every time you look around). Regarding that syntax – poets are wombats? Let’s... by meredith@herdov.net | May 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
If the dates are correct, Rabindranath Tagore – whose 150th birthday has just passed – lived a life as brilliantly symmetrical as he was brilliantly talented: born on May 7 in 1861 and dying on August 7, 1941. In the west he is usually considered a great poet...