Tag: Australia

• The Poets’ Manifesto (to Amanda Gordon)

  Andrew Whalan

  February 8, 2021

  Poetry

  amanda Gordon, Australia, poet, Poetry, Poetry community, United States

• Undulations

  Andrew Whalan

  November 10, 2020

  Poetry

  Australia, Poetry, Poetry community

• Eternity

  Andrew Whalan

  November 2, 2020

  Poetry

  Australia, Poetry, Poetry community

• Bang! Crash! Wallop! The Real Game Of Cricket.

  Bang! Crash! Wallop! Throbbing music and flashing lights. People stomping, clapping and shouting. That was me last Friday night. I wasn’t at the movies. Not at a concert. No, not even a nightclub. I was at the cricket. The T20 womens’ cricket game between Australia and England. To decide the Ashes! Which we won. Heat, light […]

  Andrew Whalan

  November 20, 2017

  Cricket, Opinions-Editorial

  Australia, Cricket, women

• Roadside : Saturday Afternoon Tragedy

  Inspired by the poet William E Stafford Travelling Through The Dark… Mid Saturday afternoon. All of us, Mum, me, two children in the car. Hot, not yet humid but dusty. We had driven from our place into town for shopping, I don’t recall exactly. What happened afterward didn’t much matter. We saw it right after […]

  Andrew Whalan

  July 8, 2017

  Experience, Personal

  Australia, Kangaroo, Wildlife

• Everyone Failed Social Media : Except Mark Colvin

  I knew Mark Colvin (and his kidney!) purely through Twitter! And sad at his loss. I did read some of his interview transcripts: a gentle questioner able to get a better answer! But in the maelstrom that is Twitter, he came across as funny, intelligent, curious, never ever patronising, clever and subtle, a joy to […]

  Andrew Whalan

  May 11, 2017

  Opinions-Editorial, people, Personal, Social Media

  Australia, Listening, Mark colvin, Social media, Social Networking, Twitter

• The Happiest Dental Patient Ever

  Was this the last one? I went to the surgery door and called his name. He looked up at once. And his eyes twinkled at me. And he smiled as if he had been in last week!  He walked in arms swinging by his sides as if it was too easy. Tall, thin and vaguely familiar. […]

  Andrew Whalan

  March 2, 2017

  Fiction, Humour, Personal, Stories

  Australia, Fiction, Humour, personal, story

• Never Unknown Again

  You know I’m staring at you Though you won’t look at me Your head is bowed low Over Candy Crush or TV I can wait with my empty cup You’ll remember, you’ll see You’ll bob your head up And stare full back at me And when our eyes meet yet again We’ll create our own […]

  Andrew Whalan

  July 9, 2016

  people, Personal, Poetry

  Australia, Poetry

• The Bitter Sea

  Mine is a lost soul that swims in a bitter sea Overlayed and swamped by waves of jealousy Caught and held under by a rising tide of night At the mercy of winds of animosity Until I lose my strength  and drown ashore Foundered now ocean’s false martyr Suns may rise, storms may  fall A light shower  washes […]

  Andrew Whalan

  July 6, 2016

  Personal, Poetry

  Australia, Poetry

• I Grew Up A NewspaperMan

  I grew up a newspaperman. My dad was the editor of the Canowindra Star, the local paper in Canowindra New South Wales.  He wasn’t the grizzled editor from central casting : think of Perry White in Superman or Benjamin Bradlee in All the Presidents Men. No, he was my Dad (Kevin Whalan) : as he describes […]

  Andrew Whalan

  December 2, 2015

  Personal

  Australia, canowindra, Canowindra Star, cowra, cowra guardian, dad, journalism, linotype, Newspaper