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26 May 2021 – publication day: The Book of Australian Trees
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Rupetta lives
Nike Sulway’s wonderful novel, Rupetta, about a partly mechanical woman who lives four hundred years, hits the stands next month, published by Tartarus Press, in the UK. If you don’t know Tartarus, they publish beautifully bound books in the … Continue reading
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Tagged angela slatter, best book, cathars, france, inga simpson, n.a sulway, n.a. bourke, nike bourke, Nike Sulway, novel, olvar wood, perilous adventures, Rupetta, southern france, speculative fiction, tartarus press, the golden fleece, writing, york
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Stella!
It’s finally happening. An annual literary prize for Australian women’s fiction: The Stella Prize. Do we really need another literary prize, you might well ask? The answer should be no, but it isn’t. While there are plenty of fine books … Continue reading
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Tagged australian literature, gender disparity, inga simpson, literary prize, nike bourke, Nike Sulway, publishing, stella prize, susan johnson, women writers, writing
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Falling Wood
The trees sometimes leave gifts for us at Olvar Wood: driftwood from the sky. Branches and fragments bleached pale grey and rubbed smooth not by the tumble of the ocean but by wind and sun and rain. They fall to … Continue reading
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Tagged driftwood, eucalytus, firewood, inga simpson, landscape, nature writing, nike bourke, olvar wood, tree, trees, wood, writers retreat
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ash and cupcakes
15 August 2011 The woodpile is shrinking. I had planned to chainsaw more wood today, but I’m tired and it is raining. Yesterday we cleaned out the ash from beneath the fireplace, which had piled right up to within an … Continue reading
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Tagged ash, birds, cupcakes, fire, inga simpson, landscape, nature writing, nike bourke, Nike Sulway, olvar wood, queensland, red belly black snake, snakes, trees, winter, wood, writers retreat, writing
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Naming Olvar Wood
The name Olvar Wood is taken from Tolkien’s The Simarillion, in which the olvar are growing things with roots in the ground and the kelvar are animals. It was Yavanna (giver of fruits), the second greatest of the Valar (pure, … Continue reading
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Tagged inga simpson, kelvar, lord of the rings, nature writing, nike bourke, Nike Sulway, olvar wood, Simarillion, the Two Trees, Tolkien, trees
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Olvar Wood featured in SALT Magazine
Olvar Wood, and necessarily Nike and I, feature in the Spring edition of SALT Magazine (a gorgeous Sunshine Coast mag highlighting local attractions, people, places and businesses). The article itself was written over a year ago – so a bit … Continue reading
Dam Water-Rats
Olvar Wood has a pretty little dam. Nothing grand, more of a permanent waterhole squatting in one of the seasonal creeks that run either side of the cottage. We often admire the pink and purple lillies that decorate its surface from the comfort of our … Continue reading
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Tagged inga simpson, native water rat, nature writing, nike bourke, olvar wood, platypus
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