A poem for Christmas 2022
Arthur is away. Stephie is away more. And I am away from home At home with my babies, Searching with the magi for Joy. Artwork by the charity TADEC (Tanzania Deaf Child)
The greatest story ever told, as Banjo Paterson might have told it
Will Mackerras is a storyteller and poet — the Ridley poet-in-residence, really! In 2010, his love of Australian bush poetry led him to recast a series of Bible stories in a traditional Aussie form. The results are brilliant. Some pieces are thoroughly chuckle-inducing, like The Man From Ironbark, while the sustained […]
Reformation limericks
A selection of Will Mackerras’s limericks from the Reformation Tour
Meet Jesus at uni 