Forty South

Poet's Corner

The Main Road

by Stephen McCarthy

01 Jun 2025

The sky is big, and flecked with clouds ...

The Hobart mud lark

by Erica Larke-Ewing

30 May 2025

It’s at the bottom of the creek, partially covered in dark, slimy mud ...

Tasmanian Writers

A squiz on the sugarloaf

by Bert Spinks

30 May 2025

This article was first published in Bert Spinks’ Letters from a Storyteller blog at storytellerspinks. substack. com. You can hardly tell that there’s a pad there. The bush closes over, a welter of green fronds, blades and canes. Cross-hatched...

Portfolio

Return to romance

by Don Defenderfer

01 Jun 2025

Don Defenderfer’s connection with wilderness is a deeply personal one ...

Environment

Portfolio

Return to romance

by Don Defenderfer

01 Jun 2025

Don Defenderfer’s connection with wilderness is a deeply personal one ...

Environment

The Holy Creed of Carbonus Rex

by Roger Chao

19 Oct 2024

In the land of Terra Firma, where the sun doth brightly shine, There arose a curious sect, with a doctrine most divine. No robes of white, nor beads of prayer, nor incense filled the air, But suits of grey and tongues of gold preached salvation...

Environment

Care for country: a beautiful approach to life

by Bert Spinks

19 Oct 2024

I joined a marine debris clean-up project, part of a crew of 27 who set out for the remote south-west coast to collect rubbish ...

Science

The fall and rise of the Pedder galaxias

by Premek Hamr

13 Jul 2024

Lake Pedder was unique, a jewel in the crown of what later was named the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area ...

Wilderness

The Abels

THE ABELS: A high and hidden treasure

by Rob Shaw

03 May 2025

If such a formation was situated in almost any other developed country, it would surely be a massive tourist destination ...

The Patch

Return December

by Peter Grant

02 May 2025

Among Elvis Presley’s many gifts, the articulation of lyrics wasn’t foremost ...

The Patch

Return December

by Peter Grant

02 May 2025

Among Elvis Presley’s many gifts, the articulation of lyrics wasn’t foremost ...

Books and writing

Wilkinson’s easier ways

by Rob Shaw

05 Apr 2025

Whisper it gently, but Bill Wilkinson may be mellowing.

Travel & Tourism

EscapeTas

Duck Reach, West Launceston

by Chris Champion

31 Mar 2022

EscapeTas, a series of collaborative articles celebrating beautiful restorations, inventive architecture and memorable travel experiences.

Forty South

TOWNS OF TASMANIA: Penguin

by Bert Spinks

08 Mar 2025

Here’s an idea for your next kids’ day out, social excursion or romantic date ...

Travel & tourism

TOWNS OF TASMANIA: Evandale

by Bert Spinks

26 Oct 2024

On Sunday mornings Evandale is abuzz with activity ...

Forthcoming Events

09 May

2025

A group exhibition that celebrates the elemental poetics of clay

09 May - 15 Jun

Slip and Slurry: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics on Bruny Island

18 Bruny Island Main Rd

06 Jun

2025

Flushed by twelve years of sold out successes from Edinburgh to Adelaide to Toronto comes New Zealander Miss Ashton’s collaboration with Jane Austen (deceased).

06 Jun