Reading at Lenado's Hotel Aspen Australia Day poetry night Jan 09
I've been where mountains are as ancestors and I've lived where the sea is what you breathe I've birthed powerful children and loved amazingly I bear the scars of loss and feel the weight of age I've not always known the meaning but I've always turned the page
From A LONG STRONG SONG by Pip Sheehan published in "Sap, a Chapbook" (c) Pip Sheehan
Launch of Tropical Writers Group 2009 anthology Nov 08 at Sapphire Tapas Bar Cairns
you've given all you've got your skin your home your sleep you've given all you've got fire flood cyclone drought you're no longer sure about innocence or guilt the gold is gilded and the blood is spilt would you do it all again? now you've found out the ashes and the mud leave indelible watermark
From Pip's poem FINDING OUT published in "Raining on the Sun" Tropical Writers Group 08
Pip playing out one of the characters in her children's book SAM & LILY AT CARDRONA at the Trinity Anglican School Cairns Book Day celebration August 08.
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Pip and illustrator Amy Sheehan on the Sapphire Live night Nov 08. Amy's illustrations for Pip's projects include their first children's book (there are two more in the pipeline), as well as promotional material, such as the Sapphire Live bookmark.