Wow where has time gone over the last four years? I’ve now
got a four-and-a-half year old daughter and a son who is turning three next
week, I guess that’s where the time has gone! It’s also been buried by
mountains of colds, flus and bugs that seem to chase little children and their
families around relentlessly. I’ve written a poem about what I’ve been doing,
called “Have you been doing any writing?” and it was chosen by the Communion
Literary Journal and included in Volume 6, December 2016. You can find it here,
if you scroll down past my “interview”. https://walleahpress.com.au/communion6-Susan-Austin.html
I really enjoyed being a featured reader at the Seasonal
Poets event at Hadley’s Hotel in May this year, alongside Gina Mercer and Ben
Walter. It was good to present some new work and get some positive feedback on
it from members of the audience, and it was special to share the stage with two
people who I very much admire and who have helped me enormously on my poetry
journey. It was great to hear that this fantastic quarterly event is going to
continue despite the loss of Tasmanian Writers Centre funding. Hopefully as the
kids are getting older and my husband is travelling less often for work, I
might be able to get along to more of them!
I’m also happy to have joined a new poetry workshopping
group and am finding the monthly meetings very inspiring and productive.
Hopefully I’ll be able to devote more time to poetry and post more often as the
intensity of the early years of raising small children begins to lighten a
little.
So is God.
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