Writing Beth
Beth SpencerAn evolving experiment, with a mix of literary bits (poetry, essay, memoir), creativity tips, lefty-eco politics, & maybe some audio. Erratic. But hoping to get more consistent. Your subscriptions, likes & feedback are a vital part of the experiment. ♥️
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For Mother's Day: the dance of memory and forgetting
It’s Mother’s Day, so I thought I’d share this short memoir essay again — about developing a new relationship with my Mum during her dementia years — that was recorded for Radio National a few years back, and was also published in Vagabonda...
Some thoughts about endings: or how to land a poem
I often think of the first line of a poem as a gift. Something that just seems to come out of the blue into your mind or onto the page.
And then the ending is a different kind of gift — a gift created or enacted by the poem itself.
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Playing Cards on a Red Rattler: trains, class, horses, steam
This short memoir essay was first published in Mascara Review in their Class Fetish issue, and then in The Age of Fibs.
Here’s a video version (with captions) or you can read the text below.
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Wally Spencer, c.1970s
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Bugs Bunny, Pepe Le Pew & the Honeymooners: or how I learned to appreciate high culture, and be very confused about love
Here’s a little poem that was first published in Rabbit: journal of non-fiction poetry.
With an audio version, and a few video footnotes.
Like most working class kids I first encountered classical music and opera via Bugs Bunny. And...
Poets, publishers, trolls & angels
Hello old and new friends,
So last week I had my very first experience of going semi-viral with a meme I shared on Invasion Day. Not one I’d created, just a borrowed graphic that seemed worth posting as a Note on January 26th — which is ‘I...
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I write a mix of poetry, memoir, auto-fiction, and essays. Most recent books: The Age of Fibs (Spineless Wonders, 2022) and Vagabondage (UWAP, 2014). Living on un-ceded Darkinjung land in 'Australia'. @bethspen on socials and www.bethspencer.com
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