News and events for our library community
Celebrate World Uke Day with songs and stories by Gary Burke and Scott Wise
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Margaret River Library will be CLOSED on Friday 26th January for the Australia Day Public Holiday.
We apologise for any inconvenience. Feel free to use the after-hours chute for your returns.
Access to our online services is available at amrlibraries.com
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Miriam will share poetry from her new book ‘Who Comes Calling?’, followed by a conversation style interview with local poet Ana Brawls. Light refreshments will be provided after the talk.
Miriam lived in Margaret River for 11 years (some of you might remember her as Miriam Lochore), and many of the poems in this collection are set in Margaret River. Her poems are accessible and engaging and should appeal, not only to those who identify with her faith perspective, but also to those who are interested in embodied female experience, to lovers of poetry, and to anyone who likes to ask big questions.
“These are beautifully crafted poems that ask profound questions: Where is home? What does it mean to be a mother? Or a poet? Where is God in the face of inexplicable suffering?” WA Poets Press.
Her first book, Against Certain Capture, was a poetic re-telling of her grandmothers’ lives. It was published by Five Island Press as part of the New Poets 10 series in 2004. It was highly commended in the Anne Elder award and went on to win the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for poetry.
In early 2023 she was awarded a Westerly Mid-Career Fellowship. She teaches creative writing at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education and writes from a faith perspective that remains open to finding common ground with others.
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Who Comes Calling? is Miriam’s latest poetry collection, recently published by Western Australian Poets Press.
We’re back!
The Augusta and Margaret River libraries are now open.
We look forward to seeing you soon 🙂
The libraries are closed for the Christmas break!
We wish our community a happy and safe Christmas and New Year and look forward to welcoming you back at 10am on Tuesday 2 January 2024 🙂
Our online resources don’t take a holiday and continue to be available 24/7. Click here to explore the range on offer.
Remember to stock up on all your reads in the lead up to the holiday season…
You can borrow as many items as you like!
Both libraries will OPEN again at 10am on Tuesday 2nd January 2024.
Our online resources will be available for the duration of the break.
Visit amrlibraries.com to explore our range of e-books, downloadable audio-books, online courses and movie streaming services, 24/7.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the staff at the Augusta and Margaret River Libraries.
Margaret River library will be closing early at 12.30pm on Friday 8th December
for an all Shire staff event.
Open again on Saturday 9th December at 10am.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
Feel free to use the after-hours chute for your returns
Access to our online services is available at amrlibraries.com
Dr Pam Lynch has a fascination for all eras of UK history and archaeology and has taken part in an archaeological dig on a Roman Palace site in the south of England. She recently visited Shetland and its historical sites, intrigued by its extensive remains and the insight they give into an ancient society.
Come along and let her lead you through the extensive history of this group of islands and wonder at the creation of some of its unique monuments and the people who left them behind.
The talk will be followed with light refreshments and the chance to mingle. All welcome to this FREE event.
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A Short Story …
The name of the gallery ,’The Cocoon’, prompted me to ‘open the lid’. For over 25 years I have had two items in an old OXO stock cube tin on which it says ‘KEEP THE LID CLOSED’.
A little seahorse and an ancient cup handle, found in the desert.
After my first baby, Henry, died, I always thought that I would make something with them; a kind of memorial piece. These items were the catalyst for this journey.
I was a passionate photographer but have hung up my Pentax KM SLR since film became old hat. I haven’t had a heart for it since then, however my phone is very full of images which seems to
contradict that. Although I had intentions of using another medium, whilst I was immersed in play (with my phone) I realised that what I was doing was the art that I would show.
I have revisited a photo album and journals from 25 years ago, some of which I will share, most of which needs to stay closed in those books. I found myself making pictures with other things in my
home that relate to that time. This exhibition is a chance to revisit a story of my own, that is unique but shared by many. I have these expectations of myself and the art that I feel that I should be making, but I never do it.
In creating these works I have a new understanding, because I enjoyed myself so much in the process.
I love playing …
I play all the time, I play with things that I find, I play with images and fabrics, I play with composition, I play with nature, I play with words. This is the art that I do. I don’t paint and draw ; I can now let myself off the hook.
I booked this space in 2019 as a hopeful plan that I would still be here after having pancreatic cancer. This exhibition is evidence that I am, by the grace of God, indeed still among you and am living well.
On display from now until 22nd December in the entry to the Margaret River Library. Artworks are for sale through the artist.
Fearn Avenue, Margaret River WA 6285
Phone: (08) 9780 5600
Email: amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au