On a river of carmine gliding North in calm serenity I metamorphose,
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.
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
Hiroshima
cumulous swells buildings fold and fall towers grown from mushroom clouds of hydrogen mythic cites fill the skies hover ethereal… Read more Hiroshima
Homesick
Does Australia do green? Real green. Not the desiccated grey of eucalypts, roots driving deep to suck the slightest droplet… Read more Homesick
Vessel – Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa
1st – 4th March 2018 at the Heath Ledger Centre ★★★★★ The doors close and the theatre is plunged into… Read more Vessel – Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa
A Quilted Life
My fascination with fabric began early, in a sewing class at school. Miss Burne arrived one afternoon with a Quality… Read more A Quilted Life
Mousehole in the rain
Maybe this story touches me so very deeply because my husband is a mariner.
