Meuse Press has released an e-anthology titled "From This Broken Hill" – an unique combination of writing from some of the country's top writers (past & present) combined with a dazzling array of photography. A place of near mythic proportions, this city deep in the outback. A mine that put the money into Melbourne. Arts hub while simultaneously isolated by distance. But in some ways Broken Hill was the experiment that became multicultural Australia – it had the country's first mosque, many communities continue to thrive within its boundaries. The rough heart of Unionism still stands strong. People escape to this city, others escape a childhood there. It has its horrors and highlights, once there you'll never forget. Read an excerpt from a Napoleon Bonaparte set in the city, read the view back from leading poet Rae Desmond Jones who grew up there and wonder at the mining waste turned into a thing of beauty surrounded by red soil. Edited by Barbara De Franceschi, Marvis Sofield and Les Wicks. Supported by Broken Hill Regional Writers' Centre, Broken Hill City Council, Countrylink & ArtsNSW. It is available at http://brokenhill.tripod.com/BrokenHill.htm

Seriously fun that is. Poets on Wheels Mark O'Flynn, David Brooks and Marvis Sofield ham it up for the camera while they were in Orange after a marathon effort taking different sets of wheels - train, coach and hire car to arrive for the Public Poetry Reading and Wine Tasting with Rolling Wines event organised by the Poets Union, and supported by Arts NSW and the Central West Writers' Centre. Poetry workshop participants also learnt poetry has no rules and is more than words: it is music to the ears, about telling a story and visual like a painting. Congratulations to Dulcie Mclean who won the Poets Union award at the Public Poetry Reading and to all the performing poets who bravely read their works to an appreciative audience. Dulcie is pictured with poet Mark O'Flynn.