Australian lawyer & writer “Tears In My Bread”; “The Fading Garden” Prize: International Eyelands Award 2021; Finalist Eyelands Award 2022;VSS365 Anthology (UK)
From across the waves, a wonderful honour for my little book: prize winner in the International Eyelands Awards. A wonderfully original ceramic by Costis Malousaris in the shape of a tree: a symbol of endurance #poetry @paraxenes_meres #books#writingcommmunity
@sjreaders I completely understand what you mean…one cannot write with depth without examining the whole experience, whatever that may be. And that only enhances the fact that this is absolutely a complete work of love.
Aphrodite’s Breath held me captive: honest and raw, I walked with Susan and her mother through the painful, happy, thorny, beautiful roads and precipices of Kythera…and the mother-daughter r’ship. She would be so proud of this Susan… #books#Literature @sjreaders
This is a picture I took of Louise Glück receiving her Nobel medal in her backyard during Covid. It was such a great moment for lyric poetry--restrained yet emotional--being elevated to the world stage. I took the picture from her back porch.
Possibly sacrilegious on #ChippyTeaFriday - but hard to resist this lovely chunk of urban realism 😍 … see more of Georgia’s magnificent work via the link on her bio @GeorgiaPeskett 👍
Best Kebab, Old Street, Hoxton, London by Georgia Peskett
This years old afternoon sun and Cavafy who wrote,
". . . One afternoon at four o’clock we separated
for a week only. . . And then—
that week became forever."