Praise for Storage Unit for the Spirit House These spare poems are haunted. With a blown-up heart, Win writes about possessions and flashes that hark back like ghosts to our before s. In Storage Unit for the Spirit House prisons, tombs, portals, bottles, storage units are memorials. I would call these poems luminous and gorgeously darkly-edged, bellowing as they do with the knowledge that we never truly depart from all of our departed things. -Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree Maw Shein Win has no weaknesses nor restraints in this collection that might map how thought and memory were meant to exist. Poems that sharpen the soul. Cosmic architecture made from and into the simple organs of small places. And while an afterworld owes her for its articulation, she won t kick the ghosts while they are down. -Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of Heaven is All Goodbyes
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Plenty of new businesses flourished in the Gympie region despite a year made much more difficult than usual by the COVID-19 pandemic.
1. $14.4m Traveston ‘mega servo’ officially opens
FOLLOWING much anticipation, the $14.4 million Traveston “mega servo” officially opened at its Bruce Highway site in late November. The $14.4 million Traveston mega servo officially opened today.
The servo features 24 fuelling hoses, full truck-stop amenities with ensuites and laundry facilities, a large Super 7 shop with kitchen, more than 100 parking bays, five outdoor rest areas with BBQ facilities, external and internal kids play zones, parent rooms, shower facilities and more.
Passes are available online. Every Friday night from now through to January the theme park is running a Ride the Night event. Why not get cooking. Yandina s Spirit House runs a cooking where you can learn tips and tricks from their chefs or if you re just in the mood for eating, gift vouchers of any amount are available. For some local brews, check out Woombye-based distillers Sunshine & Sons, there s classic dry gin, barrel-aged gin and tropical parfait gin that will wake up the tastebuds. If you have a sweet tooth in the family, you can t go past the Noosa Chocolate Factory.