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Ros Spencer Poetry Award Finalist
I am a great believer in bringing your work to a professional standard before submitting it. I must admit that for a number of years I did not think my work was 'up to standard'. So I did not submit anything.
A gem older than the Indian Ocean
This gem is the centre of a series of works I am preparing for Counterpoint, an exhibition in the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, to be held at Stala Contemporary 3-19 November 2021.
Indian Ocean Craft Triennial
The workshop is busy these days, in preparation for two exhibitions which will be part of the inaugural Indian Ocean Craft Triennial.
Fifteen Filigree Years
A review of 15 years of creating and exhibiting jewellery and visual art. Fifteen Filigree Years offers a survey of visual art work by...
From Fremantle, with love
A podcast on Fremantle Shipping News will take you to an interview with Tineke by Bruce Menzies, recorded on 19 February 2021
Of cats and snail mail
It is rare these days to submit a poem in hard print and send it via snail mail. When the reply came in a paid-by-publisher envelope I was over the proverbial moon.
Words, words. Parole, parole.
"If food had a language, it would be French..." is the start of my poem 'Parole'. I wrote it while in my mind the 1972 song by Mina and Alberto Lupo was playing.
The season of Djeran
Today I feel the Belgian Spring blossoming around me, while in my other home, in Western Australia the colder season of Djeran nourishes the coastal bushland and its wildflowers.