The Bruny Island Bird Festival: Bringing together Science, Conservation, Community and Creativity to create three days of enjoyment and education about the birdlife of this wonderful island. Packed with new features as well as old favourites, there will be Expert Speakers, Birdwatching Tours & Walks, a Market Day, Art Exhibition and evening events to celebrate…
… the Aran jumper crowd
… the Aran jumper crowd (Pat Carty, ‘The Sunday Times, 3rd December 2023) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shane-macgowan-the-man-who-made-irish-music-cool-gj0fvk505 (apologies, it’s probably behind a firewall) Rum Sodomy & the Lash made it into the UK Top 20 in 1985 and it was likely the first time most of us heard of them. MacGowan’s songwriting had taken a quantum leap and…
Metric — ‘Formentera’, live at the Fillmore Philadelphia (2022)
Metric — ‘Formentera’, from their 2022 album ‘Formentera’. Live at the Fillmore in Philadelphia, 2022.
2 paragraphs from Doris Lessing’s ‘Under My Skin’
2 paragraphs from Doris Lessing’s ‘Under My Skin’ (vol one, autobiography to 1949) Something else happened, which I have had to think about ever since. At a Mission in Old Umtali there was an afternoon’s fete, and black people as well as white wandered about under the trees drinking tea and eating cake. I had…
Liz Lefroy and Jonty Lefroy Watt, a Tasmanian Poetry Festival event – 16th Nov 2023
Liz Lefroy and Jonty Lefroy Watt – Launceston, November 16th 2023. Visiting UK poet Liz Lefroy Liz’s opening poems of the evening involved “that very British sport of queuing,” the first of which – “In the Queue in the Waitrose Cafe, I Meet My Love” – can be read online at Liz’s website, at…
Pub to Park – a Bothwell storytelling event, Tasmania, Fri 1st December
A Bothwell storytelling event featuring Kim Nielsen-Creeley, Marilyn Arnold, Tim Hurburgh and Mallika Naguran. Friday 1 December at the BoHo (Bothwell Hotel) from 3-6 pm. Listen to stories and poems on highland life and love, over wine, cheese and crackers. Kim Nielsen-Creeley is a Launceston-based writer and poet. She has released a chap book titled Roughly, and…
Winning poem by Marley D — West Launceston Primary School, Year 6 (Red Room Poetry)
Winning poem — Upper Primary (Y4-Y6) with a poem, ‘The Whale’s Wings’, by Marley D Read poem at The Whale’s Wings
The musical genius of Julie Fowlis – ‘Hùg air a Bhonnaid Mhor’
The musical genius of Julie Fowlis in Concert at ABC Glasgow January 2008 ‘Hùg air a Bhonnaid Mhor’ From North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Julie Fowlis is probably the most successful artist ever to work with predominantly Scots Gaelic material and has some high-profile fans, including Björk, Ricky Gervais, and Phil Selway of Radiohead. While Runrig and Capercaillie had previously achieved breakthroughs…
Australian poetry news — Five Islands Press
Oystercatcher Enterprises Ltd, a not-for-profit company recently founded by Mark Tredinnick and Steve Meyrick, is proud to announce its intention to revive Five Islands Press as a publisher of new poetry and writing about poetry and other lyric works. Founded in 1986 by Ron Pretty, and named for the five islands off Port Kembla, where…
Small Press Network — Book of the Year Award 2023
News from Small Press Network’s latest newsletter… BOTY shortlist We recently announced the six books shortlisted for this year’s SPN Book of the Year Award (plus two titles that received honourable mentions from the judges). They are: The Branded (Jo Riccioni, Pantera) Our Members Be Unlimited (Sam Wallman, Scribe) Paradise (Point of Transmission) (Andrew Sutherland, Fremantle Press) Against…