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  • Book Reviews,  Competitions,  Journalism,  Updates

    Real men do read – they just don't let the sexy, geek goddesses know.

    February 6, 2013 / 12 Comments

    Rob Kennedy, an Australian poet (and male for the purposes of this discussion) asked this question in a blog post recently: Do real men read books?* He had several issues with this question: What the hell constitutes a “real man” anyway? To which I nod my head furiously because yes, what the hell are we discussing when we talk about “real men”? What makes one man more “real” than the next, apart from the fact that maybe he isn’t some intangible figure in your brain…… moving on. The reason he asked the question in the first place was because he had found a lot of American based programs and websites…

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    A real bookshop by Elsie esq via Flickr

    Capering criminally with the challenge: what I read for Australian Women Writers 2013

    January 3, 2014

    AWW 2013: Marj McRae's Not A Man

    January 10, 2013
    Marisa Wikramanayake waiting to present during the IPEd Conference freelancing workshop in 2013

    Where have I been?

    May 5, 2013
  • Updates

    2013's very odd resolution list

    January 4, 2013 / 2 Comments

    This being the start of 2013, of course everyone is talking about New Year Resolutions. In fact, come December 1st everyone starts ruminating on this topic. And then of course there is a lot of angst over what one hasn’t done yet and that horrible nagging feeling that somehow you are running out of time to do X, Y and Z and therefore be happy. So in the interests of preserving some sanity here, because let’s be honest, me being me, I have very little sanity or so people tell me, let’s do this differently. What was 2012 like? Well, lets see. It was unexpectedly social at points – in…

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    writings in a planner

    How to successfully set goals and plan for 2022

    January 11, 2022

    Ten years of Kottu

    April 8, 2015

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013
  • Poetry,  Projects

    Weekly news roundup AND Britain's National Poetry Day… combined!

    October 5, 2012 / No Comments

    Note: News events listed below are as they happened on the morning of Thursday, 03 Oct 2012 prior to debates, apologies and anything else really exciting. It takes awhile to think up rhymes. I give students a news quiz each week and today I couldn’t decide whether to post the quiz and some of the odd answers or a poem for National Poetry Day in Britain (despite the fact that I am neither located there or a citizen) so you guys got both. Enjoy. If anyone can come up with a title that would be awesome. —- This week the Health Department got their anatomy wrong, They mislabeled the ovaries…

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    On pens, paper and meaning

    November 17, 2012
  • Music Reviews

    Music Review: Crayon Fields' All The Pleasures Of The World

    October 30, 2009 / 1 Comment

    Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Crayon Field's latest album All The Pleasures Of The World for RTR FM, a community alternative radio station in Perth, Western Australia.

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