Tag Archives: Suzanne Phoenix

Yarra Valley Writers Festival 2021

Posted on 29/06/2021 by Angela Savage

While the COVID-19 pandemic keeps proving time and time again that ‘The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley’ as Robert Burns would say, and the situation in states outside Victoria notwithstanding, the easing of restrictions … Continue reading →

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A couple of things before the end

Posted on 30/12/2020 by Angela Savage

As I near the end of this sad, sad year, there is light at the end of the tunnel. After writing little more than a few blog posts and short tributes to my mother and father, I managed to write … Continue reading →

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Mother of Pearl is launched

Posted on 29/07/2019 by Angela Savage

I feel a bit like a book is a ship, the building of it takes so much labour, the structure engineered over and over, to make it watertight, to get it to float and then the leap of faith. Off … Continue reading →

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Why I love graffiti

Posted on 13/01/2014 by Angela Savage

Over the New Year break, I read Anne Michaels’ remarkable novel, The Winter Vault. Michaels is a poet turned novelist and it shows in her lyrical prose. The Winter Vault is essentially a love story about engineer Avery and his horticulturalist wife … Continue reading →

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Holiday Murders at Montsalvat

Posted on 15/03/2013 by Angela Savage

I recently had the great pleasure of interviewing author Robert Gott about his new novel The Holiday Murders at an intimate literary dinner held at the Meeting Pool Restaurant at Montsalvat, organised by the Eltham Bookshop. Robert is the author of … Continue reading →

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