h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

well, a month [and my birthday yesterday] have passed and little real work has been done on the body of work...

but i did join a workshop group - closet poets - at the local writer's centre. i read a couple of pieces and they were well received, but i had to nip off early, so didn't get a lot of time for real feedback. i did attend the launch of one of the members' volume of poems, launched by the irish ambassador to australia, as the poet is an irish national.

and i have got a new job, working as a program officer in the local govt. arts department. one of my areas of responsibility is literature, so that's a bonus!

i have been vainly trying to write a poem about 'passion'... and have been finding it very difficult to translate the feeling of the emotion into words without sounding either trite or overwrought; worse, it is not really fitting in to how i see the whole 'exegisis' set of poems. once i settle down into the new job (started last thursday, so only had four days there yet) i think i shall make more time to get the pen in the hand and the brain in gear. such is hope...

otherwise, canberra in autumn is a most wonderful place. the light is superb, the air clean and crisp without any real iciness yet and in the new job i walk the two k's to work and back - fabulous!

ooh, and i had best alter the top of my page. as of yesterday it makes me a liar - i am now a 39 yr old.... : ( but going to sydeny to eat at THE most fabulous modern nouvelle japanese restaurant on saturday, so that should inspire the 'passion'! yum!

watch this space - if you care to...

astro : )