Podcast appearances and mentions of ruth park

Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/Featuring: Clare Fletcher (Instagram) and Karina May (Instagram)Blinky Bill, Dorothy Wall (1933, HarperCollins)The Muddleheaded Wombat, Ruth Park (1962, HarperCollins)Anything from May GibbsThe Secret Garden (1911, Penguin) A Little Princess (1905, Penguin), Frances Hodgson BurnettBridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1996, Macmillan)One Day, David Nicholls (2009, Hachette)Jessica Dettmann (How To Be Second Best, This Has Been Absolutely Lovely, Without Further Ado)Minnie Darke (Star-Crossed, The Lost Love Song, With Love from Wish & Co)The Baby-Sitters Club, Baby-Sitters Little Sister, (1986-2000, Ann M. Martin, Scholastic)Anything from Sophie KinsellaAnything from Jane GreenRecorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shines a light on debut authors, their incredible books and their journeys to publication. For the third episode of series two, Nick sits down with Trish Bolton, author of Whenever You're Read. They discuss the book, writing compassionately and translating grief to the page, looking back on your life in your old age, and more. TRIGGER WARNING: this podcast and book discusses topics of suicide and suicidal themes, so reader and listener discretion is advised. If you or anyone you know is struggling, help is available to you. Contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. BOOKS: Debut Feature: • Whenever You're Ready by Trish Bolton: https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/g1n2xA Other Books Mentioned: • Never Look Desperate by Rachel Matthews: https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/zNK7or • The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John: https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/nLK75A • The Harp In The South by Ruth Park: https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/216Av7 • Enid Blyton Collection: https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/R5rkMN

Prepare for your heartstrings to be plucked.'The Harp In The South' by Ruth Park is a classic Australian book detailing the lives of the poverty stricken Darcy family. This fictional family lives in Surry Hills, which in the 1930's was an inner city slum of Sydney. There is no plot per se as it simply follow the lives of this small family, with particular attention shown to the young daughter Roie. The events that unfold are tragic but they battle through to find the moments of love that make all the pain bearable.Thanks to Cole McCormick & Sam Sethi for supporting the show. Absolute legends!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro(1:03) - Initial Impression(2:16) - Plot/Style(4:34) - Young Love(6:30) - Themes/Questions(10:30) - Poverty(16:27) - Author & Extras(19:12) - Aussie Issues(23:04) - Summary(26:16) - Boostagram Lounge(28:29) - Value 4 ValueValue 4 Value Support:Boostagram: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/supportPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/meremortalspodcastGet Some Sats: https://lightsats.com/tips/clo6iyhiy058vqx7u7z8oln8s/claimConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/meremortalspodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcastConnect with Cole McCormick (Voice Actor):Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/colemccormick1Podcast: https://fountain.fm/show/6705669

Humorous Bush ballad, about Irish people adapting their culture to their circumstances in 19th century outback Australia.My mother bought me an illustrated version (illustrations by Aussie artists who were daughters of the NZ/Aussie writer Ruth Park and Irish Australian writer D'Arcy Niland, come to think of it) when I was five years old, and read it to me animatedly.I was entranced by the sound of rhyming language in a familiar environment about landscape and identity.My clever Mummy taught me to read, early. I became a writer, journalist, comedian and broadcaster.From little things, big things grow.Read to our kids, in person and aloud, happily.

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode takes us back to the Australian Classics Book Club.This month's classic is Ruth Park's Fishing in the Styx.Andrew is joined by Alaina Gougoulis, senior editor at Text Publishing and Tegan Bennett Daylight, author of Bombora and What Falls Away.Ruth Park is the beloved creator of classic Australian works such as The Harp in the South, Playing Beattie Bow and the Muddle Headed Wombat series. Fishing in the Styx is a memoir of Ruth Park’s writing life. From her her arrival in Sydney and marriage to D’arcy Niland, her love and literary partner, through her extraordinary literary life Ruth Park maintained an extraordinary literary output. Fishing in the Styx is a portrait of a writer amongst writers and illustrates the hardship and extraordinary creativity it took to live the writing life in Sydney through the middle twentieth century.

This week, with two audio described performances of Ruth Park’s iconic and beloved Harp in the South at the Sydney Theatre Company planned for later this month the show pays a special homage to the books. Stella chats with playwright Kate Mulvany about the process for adapting the books for the stage and what audience members can look forward to and Frances Keyland presents a special Reader Recommended. Also on the show, we speak with Belinda Wilson from our Building Stronger Futures team about two upcoming employment programs

Ann-Marie Priest talks about her new book, 'A Free Flame' with ABC Radio's Rhianna Patrick The book is available for purchase here: http://avidreader.com.au/products/a-free-flame HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE 2016 DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT 'I need to be a writer, ' Ruth Park told her future husband, D'Arcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. 'That's what I need from life.' She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of being 'real' artists, a number of precocious girls in Australian cities were weighing their chances and laying their plans. A Free Flame explores the lives of four such women, Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, Christina Stead and Ruth Park, each of whom went on to become a notable Australian writer. They were very different women from very different backgrounds, but they shared a sense of urgency around their vocation - their 'need' to be a writer - that would not let them rest. Weaving biography, literary criticism and cultural history, this book looks at the ways in which these women laid siege to the artist's identity, and ultimately remade it in their own image. This podcast was recorded by Avid Reader Bookstore in Brisbane as part of our year-round events schedule. For more information and to see what we having coming up, visit our website: www.avidreader.com.au/

In her new book, A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century (UWA Publishing, 2018), Ann-Marie Priest, a lecturer at Central Queensland University, explores the literary lives of four Australian women—Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, Christina Stead, and Ruth Park—who challenged the 20th-century notion of artist as distinctly male. Priest offers biographical and cultural insights into these pioneering women whose urgency to write (their “vocation”) would not be denied. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book, A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century (UWA Publishing, 2018), Ann-Marie Priest, a lecturer at Central Queensland University, explores the literary lives of four Australian women—Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, Christina Stead, and Ruth Park—who challenged the 20th-century notion of artist as distinctly male. Priest offers biographical and cultural insights into these pioneering women whose urgency to write (their “vocation”) would not be denied. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book, A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century (UWA Publishing, 2018), Ann-Marie Priest, a lecturer at Central Queensland University, explores the literary lives of four Australian women—Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, Christina Stead, and Ruth Park—who challenged the 20th-century notion of artist as distinctly male. Priest offers biographical and cultural insights into these pioneering women whose urgency to write (their “vocation”) would not be denied. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book, A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century (UWA Publishing, 2018), Ann-Marie Priest, a lecturer at Central Queensland University, explores the literary lives of four Australian women—Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, Christina Stead, and Ruth Park—who challenged the 20th-century notion of artist as distinctly male. Priest offers biographical and cultural insights into these pioneering women whose urgency to write (their “vocation”) would not be denied. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices