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Dear Poets Union members and friends,
Your ideas, submissions and suggestions are invited for the 2010 Australian Poetry Festival Inventing the Tradition – the Seventh Australian Poetry Festival 3, 4, 5 September 2010
The Poets Union invites members to submit a proposal for a poetry event to be included in the umbrella program of the festival. Events can be held anywhere in Australia but preference will be given to regional events. This is a chance to be part of a national festival, to promote poetry in your region, to receive some funding for your event, and to access the email and website listings of the festival program as a way of publicising it.
It is planned to award three ‘scholarships’ to regional NSW poets to attend the festival on the basis of a short manuscript and a statement about what the poet would get out of attending the festival and what he/she would take back to the region as a result.
It is proposed that the scholarship will include assistance with fares and accommodation, free entry to all festival events, manuscript assessment and some workshopping.
Please email your ideas to brookemery@gmail.com with the Subject Line: ‘Festival Proposals’ or by post to Festival Proposals (attn Brook Emery), Poets Union Inc., PO Box 755 Potts Point, NSW 1335. (You can email Brook if you have specific questions.) Any suggestions about the festival may be emailed to Brook Emery: brookemery@gmail.com
Poetry events, festivals and readings all over Australia: **********************************************************************************
In Sydney – in Auburn tonight Wed 16 Sept: …flesh becomes word… Auburn Poets and Writers Group in partnership with Poets Union Inc, Parramatta Artists Studios and Auburn Community Development Network invite you to participate in two writing workshops to generate new words, in new ways, in September, to be spoken in public performance in early October at the Parramatta Artists Studios (6-9 Oct)
Date: Wed 16 Sept 2009 Time: 7.30 – 9.30 pm Venue: @ Auburn Community Development Network Cnr Park Road and Queen Street, Auburn Tel. (02) 9649 5559 RSVP Thurs 3 Sept for catering For more details, please contact Alissar Chidiac, Auburn Arts Officer at ACDN
Facilitator: Farid Farid is a poet, performer and academic. He recently participated in East London West Sydney, a new hip-hop theatre project led by artists from the hip-hop and urban cultures of the UK and Australia, where artists explored urban experience and struggles, and shared an emphasis on word flow, storytelling and place. He has been published in creative and academic journals including Borderlands e-journal, Social Semiotics, UTP Critical Dialogue and Auburn Letters. He has performed and spoken at a range of events, including the Sydney Writers Festival production 'Exploring Multilingual Spaces' (2008) and 'Hip Hop Projections 4' (2009). He has also performed at the multi-artform event 'To Gaza with Love' in solidarity with the Palestinian people at Mori Gallery (2008). He has collaborated in 2009 with multimedia and visual artist Khaled Sabsabi, in writing a series of catalogue essays regarding his exhibitions, including 'In This Together' (Kultour) and 'Integration, Assimilation and Fair Go for All' (Gallery 4A). His intense style is complemented by his comedic persona, where he took part in the successful theatre production 'Thank God You Made It' at NIDA (2008/2009). Farid has also been a member of Auburn Poets and Writers Group.
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In Albany, WA on Sunday 19 Sept. As part of the SPRUNG Writers Festival the
launch of “The Softness of Water”
Date:
Saturday 19th September 2009 Albany
In Perth – every Saturday 2-4 pm . Saturday 19 Sept. guest poet: Santo Cazzati
Perth Poetry Club this Saturday and every Saturday, 2-4pm Venue: The Court, 50 Beaufort Street, Perth. Free entry. Be early! We start shortly after 2pm. Lots of 5-minute open-stage slots, plus...
19 SEP: Melbourne's madman of the left, luxe & liminal, that cursenamed wogboy - Santo Cazzati
Fresh from MELBOURNE OVERLOAD and slightly soiled from featuring at QUEENSLAND POETRY FESTIVAL! SANTO CAZZATI is a spoken word artist. His performances are a trip in all senses of the word. Santo is a fixture on Melbourne's grass roots poetry scene. He is a frequent winner of Babble Poetry Slam and won second prize in Melbourne Slam 2008. He is a presenter of 3CR's Spoken Word radio programme.
The son of Italian immigrants to Australia, he emerged from past lives as a classical concert pianist and savant garde jazz musician to teach at an elite Melbourne private school which must remain anonymous in order to protect those concerned. He performs in a range of styles, from fast rhythmical delivery to slow atmospheric meditation, often with a strong world music influence and critical ironic distance.
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SEP: TBA
More info at www.perthpoetryclub.com. Enquiries: perthpoetryclub@gmail.com or Janet 0406 624 578.
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In Adelaide – at Stirling Library, Sun. 20 Sept - Hills Poets 2.30 pm launch of a new anthology Frost & Fire by the Hills Poets
Hills Poets Venue: Stirling Library Time: 2.30 pm
***************************** In Sydney – in Glebe Sun. 20 Sept. 3.30 for 4.00 pm Launch of Kim Cheng Boey’s “Between Stations”
Kim Cheng Boey was born in Singapore and migrated to Australia in 1997. He is a prize-winning poet with four published collections, and a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle.
Venue: Upstairs at Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road Glebe NSW
Time: 3.30 for 4.00pm Launched by: John Hughes. Between Stations published by Giramondo
RSVP Tel. 9660 2333
For Kim Cheng Boey 'between stations' describes the state of the migrant writer, living between his place of birth, his adopted country, and the wider world; between
the past and the present; between the city he is in, and those
that The book traces the author's travels through India, China, Egypt and Morocco, during the year of wandering between his departure from his native Singapore, and the making of his new home in Australia. In each place he visits, the cosmopolitan mix of peoples, the markets and crossroads, the overlays of history and religion, remind him of his old city, now demolished, and of his gambler father, who would return after long absences to walk with him down the vanished arcades and alleys, past the shophouses and hawkers' stalls. Boey's essays capture a historic moment in the modernisation of the Asian
city; they chronicle the breakup and the resilience of the family;
they
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In Cowra – 22 Sept. poetry prize announcement of Peace Poetry Prize - World Peace Day Celebrations
Date: Tuesday 22nd September Ceremony 5.45 pm Venue: Peace Bell Pavilion, Civic Square + followed by World Peace Day Dinner 7 pm Cowra Bowling Club.
Tickets: $30 Adult, $22 Student. Bookings essential before 16th September
RSVP Tel (02) 6342 2975 or Fax (02 9341 1217 Or purchase tickets directly from Natural Beauty, 12 Kendal Street, Cowra. *****************************
In Sydney – Wed 23 September – Live Poets @ Don Bank
Wednesday, September 23rd - Live Poets @ Don Bank. 6 Napier St North Sydney.
SPECIAL GUESTS: In the United Nations Year of Astronomy this night will form a giant Open Section for poets and musicians presenting work under the theme: Poems/Songs of the Future, Poems/Songs about Space.
A Special Performer will be unplugged guitarist Wayne Gillespie singing his own songs AND providing backing for several well known rock songs about space from the likes of David Bowie, Lou Reed and Elton John. Rock vocalists in the audience are invited to stand up and sing the lead!
Doors open 7.30 pm. $7 entry includes supper and drinks. Further info: Danny Gardner (02) 9896 6956. Mobile: 0422 263 373 - or at dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au
***************************** In Sydney – Thursday 24 Sept ‘Culture Jam’ 6-9 pm in Newtown An invitation from Ray Baltas of Mersey Sound Collective... Raymond
and Patrycja Nedziak invite
members
to "CULTURE JAM!"
on Thursday, September 24 at 6:00pm. Where:
Oh
Really Gallery, 55 Enmore Road, Newtown If you are on Facebook you can see more details and RSVP, at the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=129877132644&mid=117c05aG4eb7dab0Gde93d8G7
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In Melbourne –Fri. 25th Sept. from Melbourne Poets Union MPU:
A public voice and opportunities for all poets! Poetry Salon – Friday 25 September ‘Mesmerisation’ with John Garrett, Fee Sievers & Brett Ditchfield . /Mesmerisation/
John
Garrett, President
of Overload,
and
co-convenor
of Spinning Room South,
will spin his spell, + Fee Sievers & Brett Ditchfield, the
Ekphrastic addicts
will
capture
your mind and hearts. MC Sue Stanford. +Open
section if you dare! Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St Melbourne Members
$9, $7, members $6.
***************************** In Bacchus Marsh, Victoria – 20th Sept and Sundays 3 pm “Poetic Desserts” From
Melbourne Poets Union member Jennie Fraine... Reading: “Poetic Desserts” poetry readings Poets: Earl Livings and Ray Liversidge
Date: Sunday 20th September Time : 3 pm on Sundays, Venue: Baby Black Cafe, 10 Church St, Bacchus Marsh.
Contact person: Jennie Fraine – 5367 6976/0447 695 205/jennief@westnet.com.au
Nowadays Bacchus Marsh is a 40-minute drive from Melbourne along roads free of traffic lights. Too easy! The venue is heritage-listed, has a lovely ambiance, and provides great food, coffee and wine.
Guest Poets in coming weeks: November 1: jeltje and Lauren Williams November 29: Robyn Rowland and Connie Barber December 20: Rosemary Nissen-Wade, Leah Kaminsky and Jennie Fraine, and Ruth Stewart
***************************** In Hobart - Motherlode Saturday 26 Sept - Workshop + Launch From the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre
Workshop Venue: Tasmanian Writers’ Centre Workshop Time: 10.00 am – 1.00 pm (Workshop with the editors of Motherlode) Launch time : 3.30 - 4.30pm – launch of Motherlode at Fullers Bookshop Workshop Details: Venue: Salamanca Arts Centre Meeting Room. The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre 77 Salamanca Place, HOBART Workshop time: 10.00am - 1.00pm Cost: Members $30, non-members $55. Bookings:
admin@tasmanianwriters.org
or phone (03) 62240029
Kate and Jenny will kick off by taking you through their experiences reading over 500 books by contemporary poets in editing Motherlode, and the implications they see for poets today, including: why this poetry goes where none has gone before, the editorial process, choices and the impact of these on the final selection of poems and poets, and of course, what makes a poem more likely to be selected. You’ll
hear and be asked to read examples and extracts of selected pieces,
demonstrating the breadth of styles, forms and techniques available
to you as a poet. Please bring two examples of poems you would like
to workshop – if possible, on the very broad themes of parenting,
women's life experience and world view, children, loss, nature, women
ancestors. We’ll close with a discussion of the pitfalls and
pleasures of writing on these rewarding and important subjects.
Salamanca Arts Centre Meeting Room. Members $30, non-members $55.
Bookings: admin@tasmanianwriters.org
or phone (03) 62240029 Launch Details: Invitation from Puncher & Wattmann in conjunction with the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre to the launch of Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry, 1986 -2008
When : Fullers Bookshop 131 Collins Street HOBART Launch time: 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm RSVP:
admin@tasmanianwriters.org
or phone (03) 62240029 Motherlode is the first major anthology of women’s poetry in more than a decade, a 342-page book featuring 172 poems by 125 poets on subjects relating to motherhood and family: from colonial experience and the world at large to pregnancy, children, loss and death. It includes poems by Judith Wright, Gwen Harwood, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Dorothy Hewett, Kate Llewellyn, Dorothy Porter, Jan Owen, Jennifer Maiden, Joanne Burns and many other well-known and newer poets. Motherlode enjoyed a successful debut at the Sydney Writer's Festival in May and an overwhelming response from readers and poets alike at events in South Australia and NSW and commentary since then.
For
more details contact katewaterhouse@yahoo.com
or visit www.puncherandwattmann.com
***************************** In Sydney Sunday 27 September – PU Brett Whiteley Studio Reading
2.00 -3.30 pm (4th Sunday of every month) Guest poet: Kim Cheng Boey will read followed by an open mic. session.
Kim Cheng Boey is widely regarded as one of the most promising Singapore poets to emerge in the 1990s. Boey has published four collections of poems to date. Three of his works, Somewhere-bound, Another Place and Days of No Name have won awards. For his artistic achievement, Boey received the National Arts Council Young Artist Award in 1996. Boey currently resides in Australia and teaches creative writing at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales.
Brett Whiteley Studio, 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills (off Devonshire Street and Esther Lane) Convenor: Angela Stretch for the Poets Union Inc.
***************************** In Fremantle, WA – Sunday 27 September a launch You are invited to celebrate the launch of
“The
Softness of Water” Fremantle
Arts Centre Fremantle
Light
refreshments Books
available for sale $25 *****************************
In Adelaide – last Sunday of the month – poets working group 2-4 pm Poets Group @ Mostly Books
Details: mostlybooks@internode.on.net
***************************** In Melbourne – Sunday 27th September : launch of Motherlode and Salon
Venue: Australian Poetry Centre Glenfern, 417 Inkerman Rd · East St Kilda. Launch Time: 2.30 pm Salon to follow: with Jennifer Harrison, Kate Waterhouse and Geoff Lemon.
For more details Tel. 03 9527 4063 contact katewaterhouse@yahoo.com Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986-2008, edited by Jennifer Harrison & Kate Waterhouse (Puncher & Wattmann 2009) will be launched across all states at readings given by local and interstate poets covering all 12 sections of this truly beautiful book. Motherlode is the first major anthology of women’s poetry in more than a decade, a 342-page book featuring 172 poems by 125 poets on subjects relating to motherhood and family: from colonial experience and the world at large to pregnancy, children, loss and death. It includes poems by Judith Wright, Gwen Harwood, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Dorothy Hewett, Kate Llewellyn, Dorothy Porter, Jan Owen, Jennifer Maiden, Joanne Burns and many other well-known and newer poets. Motherlode enjoyed a successful debut at the Sydney Writer's Festival in May and an overwhelming response from readers and poets alike at events in South Australia and NSW and commentary since then. www.puncherandwattmann.com
***************************** In Sydney – at Newtown 7 pm - Wed 30 Sept. RhiZomic Poetry Ron
Pretty guest poet In
Sydney in Newtown Wednesday September 30,
***************************** In Launceston - Wed 30 September Music and the Muse - a workshop with Kevin Gillam 6-9 pm
From the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre: Wednesday
30th September, LAUNCESTON, 6 – 9 pm: Music and the Muse with
Kevin Gillam Over
three hours a variety of pieces of music are played both on CD and
live cello. Participants are asked to write in response to each
listening (sometimes given starting lines or key words). After
each writing stint, the group will discuss the
similarities/differences and the impact of the music. Participants
will understand how music can alter the writing atmosphere and how
they might use this in their own home/writing space. Venue: Room 5, Adult Ed centre, 51 York Street, LAUNCESTON. Time: 6.00 – 9.00 pm Members $38 Non-members $55. Bookings: admin@tamanianwriters.org or phone (03) 62240029
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In Sydney – 3-4 October: Festival of Dangerous Ideas Sydney Opera House – October Long Weekend.
***************************** In Eltham, Victoria – Sun 4th October : Healing Through Poetry a workshop for survivors of the bushfires: 10-12 noon
From Melbourne Poets Union...sponsored by Regional Arts Victoria
Date: Sunday October 4th 2009 Venue:
at Edendale Farm, Gaston’s Road, Eltham Workshop: Healing Through Poetry For: a workshop for survivors of the bushfires: 10-12 noon Lunch and Reading to follow.
Sponsored by Regional Arts Victoria and Nillimbik Council RSVP - Bookings essential Fee Sievers 0417358280
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In Melbourne –13 October from Melbourne Poets Union and POETS@WATSONIA. Poets@Watsonia (Branch of Melbourne Poets Union)
Watsonia Library – Tues. Oct.13 7 pm workshop with Kristin Henry Writing for Christmas (bring one of your own poems, pen and paper). Community Room Watsonia Library (Branch of Yarra Plenty) Ibbotson Street (nr Railway Station)
Cost: $5 light refreshments
***************************** In Sydney ‘Poets Dinner’ Tuesday 13th October 6 pm Theme this month will be ‘Amore’ “Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still” –Merle Shain.
Date: Tues 13 Oct Time: 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm Venue: Club Swans, Address: 28 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross ( a short walk from Kings Cross Station)
Cost: $15 pp covers finger food and a glass of vino, pleasant company and lots of laughs.
RSVP and PRE-PAYMENT: RSVP and payment to Macleay Bookshop – 103 Macleay Street, Potts Point (a short walk from Kings Cross Station)
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In Canberra - Tues 20 October - Poetry at The Gods (-
third Tues) Andrew Taylor (Perth), Vincent O’Sullivan (Wellington,
NZ)
Message
from Geoff Page It's at risk of being booked out. 6248 5538 — or
reply to this if you want to join one of my table/s. Light meals are available from 6pm. Please book at The Gods on 6248 5538. Entry
fee: $5. Patrons intending to eat are asked to arrive by 6.30 to
ensure that the readings can begin at 8pm. Seating is limited to 80
people. To be sure of hearing a particular poet it is advisable to
eat at the venue beforehand but ‘listening only’ 'non-eating'
seats can also be booked.
Poetry at the Gods – poets for the rest of 2009:
Tues
Nov 10 - David Gilbey (Wagga Wagga NSW), Kathy Kituai
(Canberra) and Amelia Fielden (Newcastle, NSW) Sponsors: Aldo Giurgola, Collaery Lawyers, Daltons Books, z4 Wines, artsACT
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In Fremantle on 22nd October EVENT: indigo volume 4 launch Invitation from Fremantle Press....
Venue : Fremantle Arts Centre Date: Thurs 22 October
Join
Jon Doust, author of Boy
on a Wire,
when he launches indigo volume 4 at Fremantle Arts Centre on Thursday
22 October. The latest volume features short stories by Western
Australian writers as selected by award-winning Tasmanian author
Amanda Lohrey. ********************
from
Melbourne Poets Union MPU: A public voice
and opportunities for all poets! In Melbourne Sunday 25 October /The joys and sorrows of poetic translation. /
Melbourne Poets Union (No Friday event) *SUNDAY OCTOBER 25,
Venue: IMMIGRATION MUSEUM, Flinders Street, Melbourne Time:
2 P.M. TILL 4 P.M.
Convenor
Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper Much of the poetry we read comes to us through translation. But if we don't know the original language, how can we be sure that the translation does justice to the original? What is more important? to be 'faithful' or to be 'beautiful'? Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Lia Hills, Robyn Peck, jeltje, Matt Hetherington and Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper, all experienced translators of poetry, share the secrets of their craft.
Join the discussion
and bring your favourite translated poem to read in the open
section.
***************************** In Sydney – 30 October bilingual poetry reading in Marrickville Bilingual Poetry Reading
Marrickville Library, is hosting a bilingual poetry reading on Friday 30 October 6.00pm-8.300pm at Marrickville Library, with the theme "My place in the Universe". The Library is seeking up to 15 poets who would be interested in presenting 2-3 examples of their work on the evening. The poems may be read in their original language or in translation, or both. The reading will be promoted and refreshments available. If you are interested in taking part, please contact Dimitri Symeonidis at Marrickville Library on 93352166, 0413815982 or dimitri@marrickville.nsw.gov.au
***************************** In Melbourne –10 Nov. from Melbourne Poets Union and POETS@WATSONIA. Poets@Watsonia (Branch of Melbourne Poets Union)
Watsonia Library – Poetry Reading: Lisa Gorton Tuesday November 10th 7.30pm Reading: Lisa Gorton plus open Readers Community Room Watsonia Library (Branch of Yarra Plenty)Ibbotson Street (nr Railway Cost:$5 light Refreshments ***************************** In Brisbane - Friday 13 November Launch of Motherlode Venue: Avid Bookshop
In
Brisbane – Fri 13 Nov *****************************
In
Melbourne – 27 Nov. from Melbourne Poets Union ***************************** In Melbourne –8 Dec. from Melbourne Poets Union */MPU:
A public voice and opportunities for all poets! POETS@WATSONIA. Poets@Watsonia (Branch of Melbourne Poets Union) Tuesday December 8th Christmas Reading and celebration open readers and music Cost:$4 Light Refreshments. Contact: Wendy 9467 8249 Christina 9432 7484
**************************************** e-zines and e-anthologies for poets **************************************** From PU member and WA poet Janet Jackson “I
have put 14
new poems online at Proximity. Some
were previously published in Thirst, Creatrix, Cottonmouth and the
ECU Broadsheet, and a couple are in my self-published book, Coracle
(more info on Proximity). There's also a performance video and a link
to an interview with me done by Brisbane poet Graham Nunn for the
Queensland Poetry Festival.”
***************************** PressPress Chapbook Award winner 2009, WA writer Scott-Patrick Mitchell - songs for the ordinary mass. Mitchell’s chapbook songs for the ordinary mass is available now online from www.presspress.com.au or Planet Books in Mt Lawley in Western Australia.
Mitchell runs the literary street art zine MoTHER [has words…] which he launched in 2007
and he edits The Cottonmouth Anthology Cottonmouth
Contact: _scott-patrick mitchell e: spmxy@hotmail.com
***************************** Visit the Poetica Website www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/ Australia-wide Poetry program- every Saturday at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursdays at 3.05 pm POETICA PRESENTED BY BRENT CLOUGH AND MIKE LADD, SATURDAY AT 3.05 PM, REPEATED 3.05 PM THURSDAY.
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if: book Australia - new Australian centre of excellence for digital literature
The Queensland Writers Centre Management Committee Chair, Theodora Le Souquet, and CEO, Kate Eltham, announced the launch of the Australian Institute of the Future of the Book or “if:book Australia” at the Melbourne Writers Festival The State Of Digital Publishing industry seminar on Thursday 27 August.
Based in Brisbane, if: book Australia is only the third centre of excellence of its kind for digital literature established in the world, after the New York and London Institutes. It is a Queensland Writers Centre international initiative. You can check out the UK branch here and US branch here.
if: book Australia will promote new forms of digital publishing and explore ways to boost connections between writers and audiences.
The first project for if:book Australia will be a national seminar series delivered in 2010 called Writers and Digital Markets. Supported and funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the program will inform Australian writers about new opportunities to create and publish digital content.
if:book Australia will function as a ‘think-and-do tank’ and Queensland Writers Centre is seeking partners from across the publishing, education and media sectors who are interested in collaborative programs and research.
Queensland Writers Centre works to advance the recognition and enjoyment of Queensland and Australian writers throughout Australia and the world.
***************************** MELALEUCA Melaleuca
is a free e-zine of Australian poetry, delivered monthly
***************************** Keep up with Aesthetica and the latest arts and culture happenings at aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com
***************************** A new web anthology saunters the sand with some of Australia’s leading poets. Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm - is aimed at an audience that may not normally access this artform. This is a driftwood concept – people seeking information about a certain beach stumble across this collection & discover fine Aust poetry. 20 great beaches, 30 superb poets. Hit numbers indicate it is already a huge success. This will increase as we move into Spring. The anthology is from Meuse Press, edited by PU member Les Wicks.
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Jacket Magazine- Message from Editor, John Tranter and Assoc. Editor, Pam Brown -
Announcing Jacket 37 -- Early 2009 Like the 2004 Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07/image/a/format/large_web/ ... Jacket glitters with constellations and galaxies of luminous and sometimes bewildering insights: Catch it now, before it swims out of your ken: http://jacketmagazine.com/37/index.shtml Visit their new Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc. http://sites.google.com/site/jacket-notes/Home Message from John Tranter: “PS: I'll be away until early December, so the news sections are closed until then. “ *****************************
Australia Council’s publication: The writer’s guide to making a digital living The Australia Council has been getting a great response to the Writer’s guide both locally and internationally since its publication in December 2008. You can read the guide online or download it for free from our site. http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/writersguide Explore the interactive New Writing Universe! http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/writersguide/newwritinguniverse/ Make use of the 300+ links on delicious, referenced throughout the guide. http://del.icio.us/Writersguide Also includes a link to the promo video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRueQ1Q6NGA ********************************************************************************** Competitions and due dates for submissions: **********************************************************************************
15 September Poets Union Subscriber’s poems – submissions invited and due for the Summer issue of Five Bells Call for subscribers to submit one poem or an article to the Poets Union’s next issue of Five Bells – due by 15 September
Please submit one poem only as a simple Word doc attachment with your name, the title of the poem and your contact details on one page and on a separate page the Title and poem. The Editors send all poems off for consideration by the Guest Editor (minus the poet’s name) and the Guest Editor makes their selection.
The
themes and closing dates
for the forthcoming issues of Five
Bells are: 15 December 2009 – Poetry of Space
These themes refer to the articles only (subscribers’ poems may be on any subject) – the editors accept themed and unthemed articles on poetry from members and non-members. Please email them to info@poetsunion.com with the Subject: Five Bells Submission. The postal address for submissions is Poets Union Inc., PO Box 755, POTTS POINT NSW 1335.
******************** Submissions now open for Cordite Poetry Review
Writing haikus, snryus or other ultra-short poems? Submissions are now open for the 31st issue of Cordite – EPIC. Details available at www.cordite.org.au
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Submissions due by Friday 25th September – Cricket Poetry Award (Publishers Cup Inc.)
CRICKET POETRY AWARD 2009 – value $2,000 Poets are invited to submit a poem celebrating an aspect of life in and around the game and sport of cricket, in settings of backyard cricket, beach cricket, club cricket or social cricket. Entry Form $20 entry – one poem only.
The Cricket Poetry Award will be run in conjunction and correlate with the Cricket Art Prize, and the winner will be announced at the inaugural Cricket Art Prize opening event at the Members Pavilion of the SCG on Thursday 8th Oct 2009. The occasion and will not only serve the interests of all Australasians fascinated in art, poetry and cricket, but also feature as a regular event on the SCG calendar.
Painters and Poets will use a national pastime - cricket, as the vehicle to unsettle preconceptions, generate new ideas and challenge our contemporary culture. More importantly, cricket and the arts bring people of all backgrounds, socio-economic levels and nationalities together.
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From the Australian Poetry Centre....
CAFE
POET RESIDENCE - APPLICATIONS
NOW OPEN Start
Time: Wednesday, September 30 at 9:00am Where:
Applications are by email only
******************** For Darwin poets – “Sea Things” call for submissions from Darwin poets by the Red Room Company: The Red Room Company will commission one Darwin poet to contribute a poem based on the project’s theme, and to perform their poem in Sydney in late November. Imagine five poems making this journey from five Australian ports; a poetic sea cargo carried by private, commercial and naval vessels. Imagine those five poems being opened up on board, and their readers jotting down an observation or illustration that happened as they read. Sea Things will take this journey during October and November 2009, carrying new poems commissioned from five Australian poets in Perth, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, and Brisbane. To submit a sample of your work, please send a brief bio and no more than two poems to: The Red Room Company, PO Box 1300 Darlinghurst NSW 2010. For more information, visit www.redroomcopany.org
***************************** 15 poets needed – please apply before 30 Sept. for 30th October Reading
Marrickville Library is seeking up to 15 poets who would be interested in presenting 2-3 examples of their work on the evening.
If you are interested in taking part, please contact Dimitri Symeonidis at Marrickville Library on 93352166, 0413815982 or dimitri@marrickville.nsw.gov.au
Bilingual Poetry Reading - with the theme "My place in the Universe"
Marrickville Library, is hosting a bilingual poetry reading on Friday 30 October 6.00pm-8.300pm at Marrickville Library, with the theme "My place in the Universe".
The reading will be promoted and refreshments available.
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Submissions now open and due 30 September - to dotdotdash - the theme is ugly
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taking submissions for Issue 2 The
theme is ‘ugly’, but unthemed work is also sought. Submissions close 30th September. To submit visit
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Submissions invited before 30 September for VERA NEWSOM POETRY PRIZE 2009 - administered and awarded by Youngstreet Poets.
1st & 2nd Prizes, $300 & $100 respectively Entries to Receiving Officer, Sue Watson, PO Box 71, Avalon 2107, By closing date of 30th September 2009.
For Australian residents only. CONDITIONS OF ENTRY:
***************************** Submissions due 1st October for the IP Picks Award for Best Poetry
The IP Picks 2010 Awards for unpublished manuscripts open on 1 October! Categories for Best Fiction, Best Creative Non-fiction, Best Poetry, Best First Book and – new this year – Best Junior Fiction or Non-Fiction.
Now in its ninth year, the Picks Awards are supported solely by IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd), Australia's most innovative independent publisher, and are open to citizens/residents of Australia and New Zealand.
For complete details and the entry form, please go to <http://ipoz.biz/IP/IP_Picks.htm>.
More info from :Dr David Reiter, Director, IP Treetop Studio • 9 Kuhler Court Carindale, Queensland, Australia 4152 M: +61 (0)412 313 923 Ph/Fax: +61 7 3324 9319
************************* 2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – nominations close Friday 16 October
Message from Arts NSW…. the 2010 NSW Premier's Literary Awards will be advertised in the Australian on 12 September 2009. Closing date for nominations is Friday 16 October. Nomination forms and guidelines will be available on www.arts.nsw.gov.au or www.pla.nsw.gov.au
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Submissions due 30 October - The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship 2010 Providing Assistance for Young Talented Australians The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship 2010 - $450,000 total prize money in a variety of categories, including Acting, Instrumental Music, Painting, Poetry, Prose & Singing. How to Apply: For terms and conditions please refer to the relevant application form/s which may be downloaded at www.trust.com.au/philanthropy/awards/ Request for application forms or enquiries should be directed to: Cauz Group Pty Ltd Telephone: (02) 9144 2415 Email: trustawards@cauzgroup.com.au *************************
Submissions invited and due 30 October, 2009
Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition 2009 Judge
Dr ROBYN ROWLAND AO First
prize:$1000, Second prize:$300, Third prize:$200 *Closing
date: 30 October 2009* Entry
forms and conditions: contact mpuinc@yahoo.com
***************************** Submissions invited and due 30 October, 2009 : an e-anthology “from this Broken Hill”
Meuse Press is publishing an e-anthology - "from this Broken Hill” - of poetry, short prose & photography celebrating the people, culture, history & landscapes of Broken Hill which is currently being considered for National Heritage listing.
The anthology will not appear on paper & there will be no money in, so no payment out to contributors. You are invited to submit up to 3 pieces. Submissions should be in the body of the e-mail, single spaced Times New Roman 12p & be accompanied by a 3 line bio. Prior publication is no problem but you should include acknowledgement. It will be edited by Barbara de Franceschi, Marvis Sofield & Les Wicks.
Send to leswicks@hotmail.com
***************************** News from Fremantle Press poetry winners announced Scott-Patrick
Mitchell, James Quinton and Emma Rooksby will feature in Shorelines
2,
a collection of works by emerging poets to be published by Fremantle
Press in 2010. Guest editor and poet Tracy Ryan said the editorial
committee was spoilt for choice ... ***************************** Poetica Radio National program Visit the Poetica Website www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/ *****************************
Directory of Australian Poets August 11, 2009
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Submissions
from poets invited to monthly newsletter for HIGHWAY
NEWS which promotes the re-introduction
of rail, aware that investment must go to large-scale low
carbon projects - without expecting a carbon price to be a
substantial factor.
***************************** The 2009 NSW Premiers Literary Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers Festival. Congratulations to Lucy Holt on her receipt of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for her collection ‘Man Wolf Man’. Lucy was a 2004 Poets Union ‘Australian Young Poets Fellowship’ holder and was mentored by the Poets Union. In 2005 the Poets Union published a chapbook of Lucy’s poems ‘Stories of A Bird’. The Poets Union is committed to raising funds to develop our mentoring, Poetry Fellowships, Poetry Scholarships, Residencies and Prizes. The full list of winners of The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and more information about the awards can be found here: http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/
***************************** In Florida, USA Palm Beach Poetry Festival January 18-23, 2010 Delray Beach, Florida The
Palm Beach Poetry Festival has grown from a weekend event at Lynn
University in January 2005 into a six day series of events including
eight workshops with individual conferences; craft lectures, panel
discussions, readings and performances, open to the public.
Advanced
Workshops Stephen
Dobyns,
Carolyn
Forché,
Thomas
Lux,
David
Wojahn,
Jean
Valentine,
Kevin
Young
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