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Susan Ogle

Grandmothers edited by Helen Elliott & A Lasting Conversation: Stories on ageing edited by Dr Susan Ogle and Melanie Joosten

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June–July 2020, no. 422
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century grandmothers' edited by Helen Elliott and 'A Lasting Conversation: Stories on ageing' edited by Dr Susan Ogle and Melanie Joosten

Grandmothers are not what they used to be, as Elizabeth Jolley once said of custard tarts. It’s a point made by several contributors to Helen Elliott’s lively and thoughtfully curated collection of essays on the subject, Grandmothers, and it partly explains why these two books are not as similar as you might expect.

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Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing edited by Judith Beveridge and Susan Ogle

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March 2016, no. 379
David McCooey reviews 'Falling and Flying' edited by Judith Beveridge and Susan Ogle

Ever since the baby boomers hit middle age, the supposed gerontophobia of their youth has been sent back to them with interest. One-liners from the 1960s – such as Pete Townshend's 'I hope I die before I get old' and Jack Weinberg's 'Don't trust anyone over thirty' – have circulated in popular culture like ghostly refrains haunting an entire generation. Fall ...