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Vagabondage — video-footnotes — a companion Youtube playlist

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Beth Spencer

For readers of my poetry memoir, Vagabondage (UWAPublishng, 2014), about the year I lived in a campervan and ideas about ‘home’ — here’s a playlist of video ‘footnotes’. So if you were wondering where the phrase ‘leave no trace’ came … Continue reading →

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The Dismissal 40 years on: Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser and the age of right wing political entitlement

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Beth Spencer

Lest we forget what ‘entitlement’ really means with regard to the Right in Australia. Here’s Gough Whitlam’s famous words on the steps of Parliament House 40 years ago — after the scheming and illegal actions of his opponents manipulated parliament … Continue reading →

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Louisa May Alcott, Transcendental Wild Oats & Little Women at the Memoir Club Classics night

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Beth Spencer

I am delighted to have been asked to choose a ‘classic memoir’ text to discuss at the Sydney Memoir Club in Randwick on Tuesday the 28th July – to which you are all invited. I’ve chosen Louisa May Alcott’s 1873 humorous … Continue reading →

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