Welcome to Phoenix’s world-changing Salon

A port­manteau. A treas­ure trove. A time cap­sule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memor­ies. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsus­pect­ing public. An intim­ate con­fes­sion to close friends. A declar­a­tion of intent. A whis­per of love. A per­sonal record. An exper­i­ment in intro­spec­tion. A per­form­ance space. A polit­ical rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us pub­lish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.

Fings wot we need for baby

While we were in Sydney, we were gen­er­ously gifted with even more amaz­ing things for Harper. The list so far of all the gifts (and stuff we’ve got ourselves, which is minor in com­par­ison to the gift list) is below. The post out­lining ideas for out­lets and restrictions…

Return of the great adventurers

Happy new year, every­one… The grand adven­ture was grand but it is good to be back in Mel­bourne… with our lovely kitty and our beau­ti­ful house, both of which were looked after incred­ibly well by horngirl  (thank you!!).Despite every­body’s dire warn­ings, the…

And we’re off again…

Doug and I are off on our “baby­moon” as people are appar­ently call­ing the last hol­i­day you have before baby arrives.We’re leav­ing for Queens­land this after­noon at 2pm and (shock, horror) I’m not taking my laptop this year. I may check in occa­sion­ally, but…

That cultural festival of yours…

Today is that day when the sup­posedly sec­u­lar coun­try I live in stops shov­ing the major­ity fest­ival down my throat with every pur­chase, inter­ac­tion and encounter. If it *wer­en’t* for the hugely dis­pro­por­tion­ate com­mer­cial response and expec­ted par­ti­cip­a­tion, I’d be…

Today was made of awesome

… to borrow a phrase from crystal_storm. Today was my last day of work. As of now, I’m not gain­fully employed… And I have no idea when I might want to work again. It’s all a little odd​.It star­ted out with break­fast with two work friends who I reg­u­larly see on the…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

These are poems and mean­der­ings that made their way to the page. I’d love to hear what you think of them. Want to get in touch? Drop me a line!

Photo of Rosanne Bersten

View my portfolio

I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.