Paris Rosemont

***GIVEAWAY***

I've just finished reading Jeanine Leane's 'gawimarra gathering'. And now it can be yours! Simply make any donation to my Booktober fundraiser and I'll pop you in the running to win this book, which is described thus: "this superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colony".

Entries are open to anyone with an Australian postal address and will be drawn after Booktober.

Happy Booktober! I'm hopeless at sticking to rigid reading goals, so I shan't be setting any for myself. I dip in and out of books as my whims carry me. Today I'm kicking off my Booktober reading with some classic poetry - the divine Sharon Olds.

Reading and writing are pathways to worlds beyond us. Books can transport, delight, challenge, and expand our minds, providing us with intellectual, emotional, and spiritual nourishment. Literacy matters. Access to learning and enrichment matters. The collective voices of the marginalised matter. We need to nurture our future so the future will be bright.