Header Image: Radio love by r2hox tm :CC BY-SA 2.0 Apple says that there are over 525,000 podcasts registered with Apple Podcasts (Locker 2018), formerly part of Itunes, and let me tell you the Apple Podcast registration can be a pain in the neck. There may be many who are just publishing to RSS feeds…
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Dead Writers Society – Social Media and Posthumous Author Identity
Header Image By Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Not to brag but I’m being followed by John Polidori, you know the guy that made vampires into an aristocratic phenomenon in the English gothic canon with his novella The Vampyre. It’s a pretty amazing feat as he’s been dead for nearly 200 years. Yes,…
#romanticism – Romanticism and Social Media
John Keats was a brilliant poet and a darling of the Romantic age and whilst his legacy has been somewhat eclipsed by the formidable shadow of Lord Byron, many snippets from his works have slipped into common usage. For example “A thing of beauty is a joy forever’, that was his, it’s from a poem…
The Dracula Connection Part 2 – Florence Balcombe
Born: 6th of August, 1876 Died: 25th of May, 1937, aged 78 Possibly named after Florence Nightingale as her father Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe was involved in the Crimean War. Florence is talked about frequently as being just gorgeous but it is pretty clear that there is much more to Florence than the flowery and elaborate praise…
Our Lady of Gothic Science Fiction ( mini-episode )
Welcome to The FrankenPod. Today I want to give you a bit of a biography of the woman who created the science fiction genre. Apparently, there is a romantic movie that was screened last year to film festival audiences. I hope its good and does the woman justice because she is amazing. Writing Royalty Mary…
Language as a Political Instrument
Module Study, Language as a Political Instrument, Morgan Pinder Alcohol, Football and Certainty; Assault Coverage in a Regional Area Analysis of the top 96 search hits of articles pertaining to assault of a sexual and non-sexual nature, filed within the past 2 years, appearing on the online version of Fairfax regional newspaper; The Border Mail….
News and politics: Tongue Tied on Breastfeeding
By Morgan Pinder With Australian breastfeeding rates falling well below the recommendations of the World Health Organization, is there more our health system could be doing to support new mums? 96% of new mothers in Australia have been shown to start breastfeeding their babies, but by the time the babies are just 3 months old…
News and politics: Discovering the Circus under my Bed
On Friday the 26th of June, the Fruit Fly Circus, Albury based Youth circus school, opened their new show to a local audience at the Albury Entertainment Centre. The family friendly plot follows the adventures of a young girl exploring the space under her bed and her own imagination. The show was opening in Albury…
Approaches to English literature: The Invisible Weight of Hector, Using intertextuality and The Iliad to create powerful characters in Ransom and “The Triumph of Achilles”
When Homer wrote The Iliad he was recording stories for posterity, but he could hardly have known the influence his work would carry throughout centuries that would be alien to him. How could he predict that this epic tale would be broken down and analysed, reimagined and reworked, right down to the minutest detail. Both…
Struggling through Mary Shelley’s “Last Man”
Oh Mary Shelley… Why did you think the Last Man was your best work? It’s the slowest moving book I have read in ages. Raymond is irritating, Idris and Lionel are inaccessible and Perdita just feels like a personification of how Mary Shelley and the other women around her felt, and what they could be…
MK Pinder Writes 