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Poetess Bee Williamson, whose eco-ethereal spirit buzzes my bee, has published art & poems ripe on time for Australian Spring.

Quoting Anne Frank with its title A Comfort for Every Sorrow, it carries Bee's signature blend of humanity, sense of ecological urgency, simplicity ('this is small/but this is our green faith', page 49) and ecstatic wonder. Amid the sensuousness are aching questions ('Why does everything separate me? Fragment me?' page 106), as if the poet has become a receptacle for a universe struggling to understand itself.

A treat for reading under a tree during our times of seclusion.

Here is where I bought my hardcopy that flew swiftly over the garden to my door. There's also an ebook version.

Comfort for Every Sorrow
by Bee Williamson

Dancer by Bee Williamson

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Fairytale illustrator

Erin-Claire Barrow

has launched a Kickstarter to create limited edition prints of fairytale covers, here

In Erin-Claire's words:

'These illustrated book covers for five well-known traditional fairy tales are reimagined with strong, diverse heroines and are full of warmth and life. The illustrations capture essential elements of each fairy tale – such as the way Beauty brings warmth and life to the stillness of the Beast’s castle in Beauty and the Beast – with a modern twist, building curiosity about the story itself. '

Erin-Claire Barrow

I recommended Erin-Claire's art and writing in previous posts here at Australian Fairy Review, e.g. her book The Adventurous Princess and other feminist fairy tales (Odyssey Books), a set of cards featuring those pictures, and an illustration she created for the inaugural recipient of the Australian Fairy Tale Society Award. She also features in the new anthology South of the Sun: Australian fairy tales for the 21st century (2021, Serenity Press); notably, of the fifty two contributors, she is one of only two who illustrated their own stories.

As another brilliant Australian illustrator Lorena Carrington put it: