Mimi and the Blue Slave
When grief strikes, you need an ally. For Mimi, that ally is Ableth, the wildly disobedient blue slave.
Catherine Bateson is a poet and writer for young adults and younger readers.
She lives in Kallista with her husband, a rescue dog called Winter, a wide assortment of tropical fish and whichever children have moved back home as well as her octogenarian mother.
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A Very Phryne Time
What to do with a head cold? Fortunately I have the perfect solution! A couple of months ago I bought the late Kerry Greenwood’s last Phryne Fisher book. I opened it up a couple of weeks ago and fell down the Phryne Fisher rabbit hole. Murder in the Cathedral has inspired me to do a […]
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2026 – the year of poetry and change
My colleague and I learnt that this year is the last year we will be teaching the Certificate IV Professional Writing and Editing course at Gipps TAFE as the course is going to be axed. It’s a sad thing – I’ve been teaching there for over twenty years. When I started we were face-to-face, the […]