Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. Themes: redemption through suffering, family breakdown, domestic violence, grief and resilience. More subtly, the film… Read more Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Author: Penelope Walker - Writer
Hi I'm a final year creative and professional writing student at Curtin University in WA. I am a mature age student loving learning. I am passionate about the arts, the environment and social issues, particularly homelessness and euthanasia at the moment.
Fairytale from the oven
Here the dieter lags behind,
crippled by fashion
The Trainer
Oliver yawns and rolls his head slowly, easing the stiffness that has gathered while he slept. The gentle heat of… Read more The Trainer
Why have you come?
White noise fills my mind
and for long moments two
and two make
nothing.
Interview with Michael Moshos (2015).
Michael is a young Perth-born Writer/Director/Actor. When I first met him he had just finished a run in a Fringeworld… Read more Interview with Michael Moshos (2015).
After Class
On a river of carmine gliding North in calm serenity I metamorphose,
At Eternity’s Gate – A Review
The casting of Willem Dafoe, who won Best Actor for his performance at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, is inspired. He portrays the complex gamut of emotions experienced by the tortured artist so deftly, that the act of watching becomes an exercise in empathy.
The Winch Handle
He appeared in the companionway hatch, just his head and torso visible as he surveyed the overcast sky, cloud formations surging and swelling, beer froth along the rim of the horizon.
Interview with a Holocaust Survivor – Richard Ferago
Richard is a spritely 91 year old with gentle blue-green eyes and a soft manner. I had a preconceived idea… Read more Interview with a Holocaust Survivor – Richard Ferago
Salted Memory
I sit at the prow of Dads boat
