
Personal Choice 14 - for Helen
who loves Mary Oliver's poetry as much as I do I did not discover Mary Oliver until only a decade or so ago: a small epiphany! Rev. Ruth...

Personal Choice 13
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter after Li Po While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate,...

Personal Choice 12
Judith Sewing The afternoon crowding upon the windows with much cheerfulness of blue and slanting gold will end too soon. Judith has sewn...

Personal Choice 11
Spring, Chaucer wrote in the prologue to The Canterbury Tales, is the time when people begin to stir themselves, and think of going on...

Personal Choice 10
The first song I learned as a very young child at Blair Athol Primary School and later performed at the Adelaide Town Hall as part of the...

Personal Choice 9
Travelling through the Dark Travelling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River Road. It is usually best to...

Book Launch - Eight Sonnets © by Jeff Guess
Listen@Lunch, Gawler Public Library, August 21st 2022 , 12 - 1pm This Morning This morning the sun like soft yellow, warm delicious...

Personal Choice 8
Haiku The art of haiku dates from 14th-century Japan and evolved during the Tokugawa period from an earlier kind of linked-verse known as...

Personal Choice 7
In 1964 my parents took me to a production of Henry V at the Adelaide Festival of Arts. Organizers for the Festival had erected a huge...

Personal Choice 6
Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blue-black cold, then with cracked hands that ached...