Write the Wilderness Melbourne Special!

We're hosting a Write the Wilderness Walk in #MelbourneDerby over Bank Holiday Weekend

Saturday 4th May, at 1:30 pm, join us #writing , #walking , and responding to the natural world around us

Join our Family-friendly workshop in nature.

It's May, at last.

'The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in…

“Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey;
without her you wouldn’t have set upon the road.”

– C.P. Cavafy was born #OTD April 29, 1863. He died on his 70th birthday, April 29, 1933.

“Ithaca”, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn

#poetry #cavafy

‘Paul Auster was an anomaly: a thoroughly warm, witty, sympathetic, laughter-loving individual, with insatiable intellectual curiosity and a gift for friendship; at the same time, he was a monumental literary presence.’

Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and…

Peak Oxford…. Crowds gathering for May morning.