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Rangiora High School students are looking to ‘‘freshen up’’ the way it commemorates Anzac Day. Board of trustees presiding member Simon Green said he is impressed with how this year’s head students ...
Arthur Leggett, a Battle of Crete survivor and Western Australia’s oldest WWII prisoner of war, passed away at 106 on April 6, 2025. Captured by German forces, he endured over four years as a POW ...
In his poignant poem, The Drysdale Cenotaph ... reflecting the values of mateship and the often-overlooked sacrifices of veterans. The Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize The Premier’s Spirit of Anzac ...
Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...
pop-up haiku poetry recitals, a free haiku picnic from 10am–1pm on April 2 at the Woodend Children’s Park, and a haiku-focused Chamber Poets event from 1–4pm on April 12. Families are making the most ...
Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?
After 20 years sitting empty, the historic Soldiers' Block at Queen Mary Hospital in Hanmer Springs will reopen as a community centre on Anzac Day. The Soldiers' Block was built in 1916 to ...
Taking part will be Yannis Dramitinos, whose bilingual Divertente and Other Poems appeared in 2022; George Michelakakis, whose new book Η φαντασιακή ζωή στην ιστορία ...
The winning organisations, campaigns and PR professionals from the CommsCon Awards 2025 have been officially announced. In an extravagant event on Thursday night at Ilumina in Sydney, We Are ...
Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...