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Welcome to the Melbourne Poets Union. We are a not-for-profit organization for poets staffed by a volunteer committee. Our membership is approximately 250, most based in and around Melbourne but we have a number of members in regional Victoria, and others scattered throughout the states and territories. Is free to all MPU members, and contains details of forthcoming events, competitions, writing tips and numerous other miscellany of interest to poets.

A Country Overflowing with Stories. It started with a childhood memory of a story my mother once told me about her father. He died in the Lodz ghetto aged 42. He was a pious man who insisted his six children burn their nail clippings in the fireplace, using matchsticks as witnesses. I found out years later, while researching THE WAITING ROOM, that according to the mystical thinking of the. THE WAITING ROOM has all the elem.