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Month: September 2005

September 25, 2005March 14, 2022

Poetry reviews & their effects

A review of Jill Jones’ 2005 collection Broken/Open [Salt Publishing] appeared in yesterday’s Weekend Australian, drawing comment today on the poetry mailing list ‘poneme’, of which Jones is a member. How much do reviews – positive or negative – affect sales? someone asked. I can’t say, Jones replied. ‘I don’t know if reviews (or indeed…

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September 19, 2005March 22, 2022

Chris Mansell —Poetry in a time of fire

‘I go into schools to do poetry workshops/readings. Everyone’s very keen on poetry in schools. It’s part of the curriculum in my state (though less than it used to be) and teenagers still write it (and SMS each other small poems — usually doggerel, often obscene) and some teachers still love it. During the course…

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September 11, 2005March 23, 2022

Hecate, issue 31 Jan 2005

  A new issue of Hecate has arrived in the mail featuring poems by Gina Mercer, Jan Dean, Angela Costi, Dael Allison, Helen Hagemann, Maria Christoforatos, pio, Helen Cerne and Jena Woodhouse. There’s a special feature focussing on Women’s Suffrage with articles by Audrey Oldfield, Ann Nugent, John McCulloch and Lenore Coltheart, articles and essays including Chilla Bulbeck’s ‘Schemes and Dreams:…

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September 3, 2005March 29, 2022

Vale Selwyn Pritchard

Saddened to learn poet Selwyn Pritchard passed away at the end of June. A lovely man … his poetry perhaps epitomised by a few words of intro that appear on his website: “I want poems which don’t distance themselves, hold aloof, poems about living against the background of collapsing democracy, religion, social life and the corporate greed…

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  • Allan, Alice
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  • Altman, Dennis
  • Amis, Martin
  • Anderson, Pat
  • Andrejeva, Kaciaryna
  • Anne Elder Award
  • Armantrout, Rae
  • Arnott, Robbie
  • Ashley, Melissa
  • Austin, Susan
  • Australia Institute
  • awards
  • Azimitabr, Mostafa ‘Moz’
  • Bailey, Thomas Forest
  • Baker, Tim
  • Bandesh, Farhad
  • Barnes, Melanie
  • Barton, Alison J.
  • Bell, Johanna
  • Bernstein, Charles
  • Berry, Colin
  • Bignell, Meg
  • Bircumshaw, David
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  • Blackwood, Mary
  • Blakers, Rob
  • Bliss, Magenta
  • blog
  • Bolliger, Huni Melissa
  • book launch
  • book quotes
  • books
  • boult, jenny
  • Bowen, Kristy
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  • Brewster, Anne
  • Bright South
  • Brinklow, Laurie
  • Brophy, Kevin
  • Brown, Bob
  • Brozek, Daniela
  • Bruny Island Bird Festival
  • Burns, Anna
  • Byrne, Daragh
  • Byrne, Mairead
  • Cadden, Anna
  • Calanthe Press
  • Campbell, Marion May
  • Canetti, Elias
  • Carbis, Gayelene
  • Castlemaine Poetry Readings
  • children's books
  • City Park Radio
  • Clifton, Alison
  • climate change
  • Colette
  • Collins, Anne
  • Colville, Jan
  • Conan-Davies, Cally
  • conversations & interviews
  • Corbett, Nancy
  • Cordite Poetry Review
  • Corfiatis, Thérèse
  • Cossins, Jennifer
  • Couani, Anna
  • Cranston, CA
  • Crucefix, Martyn
  • Csik Zenekar
  • Daiza, Eliza Dune
  • DakhaBrakha
  • Davis, Megan
  • Didion, Joan
  • Dimitriadis, Koraly
  • Donlon, Ross
  • Drabble, Margaret
  • Drever, Chris
  • Dulcetly
  • Dumbly, Tug
  • Easton, Carol
  • Eberhard, Adrienne
  • Edmond, Martin
  • Edwards, Rachel
  • Einaudi, Ludovico
  • Ell, Theodore
  • Estrada, Silvana
  • Eureka Street
  • Evans, Alison
  • faith
  • festivals
  • fiction
  • Filreis, Al
  • FitzSimons, Peter
  • Five Islands Poetry Prize
  • Five Islands Press
  • Flanagan, Martin
  • Flanagan, Richard
  • Flett, Alison
  • Fowlis, Julie
  • Gallego, Ruben
  • Garcia-Navarro, Lulu
  • Giard-Chase, Ann
  • Gillespie, Alyssa
  • Gorton, John
  • Gotye
  • Greenhill, Susie
  • Grove, Simon
  • Haig, Francesca
  • haiku
  • Hay, Pete
  • Hecate
  • Herbert, Elanna
  • Hetherington, Graeme
  • Hey Rosetta!
  • Higgins, Kevin
  • Hindrum, Cameron
  • Hobart
  • Hobart Bookshop
  • Holland-Batt, Sarah
  • Hugo, Giles
  • Hunt, Julie
  • interviews
  • Ireland, David
  • Island
  • Jackson, Andy
  • Jackson, Eleanor
  • Jermy, Helga
  • Jones, Jill
  • Joris, Pierre
  • journals
  • Jurek, Thom
  • Kessler, Deirdre
  • Kidjo, Angélique
  • Kimbra
  • Kruimink, Kate
  • Laing, Harry
  • Launceston
  • Launceston Poetry Cup
  • Law, Archie
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  • Lawrence, Anthony
  • Layton-Bennett, Anne
  • Lea, Shelton
  • Leane, Jeanine
  • Lefroy, Liz
  • Lenker, Adrianne
  • Lilley, Kate
  • Liminal
  • Liquid Amber Press
  • Lomer, Kathryn
  • Lopo, Lisbet De Castro
  • MacKellar, Maggie
  • Mansell, Chris
  • Mantel, Hilary
  • Manus Island
  • March, Annie
  • Marr, David
  • Mason, David
  • McCusker, John
  • McGowan, Shane
  • mclennan, rob
  • McQuilkin, Liz
  • Melbourne Poetry Map
  • Meldrum, Petrina
  • Melrose, Shaine
  • memoir
  • Mercer, Gina
  • Middle East
  • Middleton, Kate
  • MILCK
  • Miles Franklin Award
  • Mok, Judith
  • Moss, Ron
  • New York Times
  • Nic Amhlaoibh, Muireann
  • Nielsen-Creeley, Kim
  • NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
  • O'Loughlin, Michael
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  • Otoliths
  • Ott, Teresa
  • Ottaway, Esther
  • Overland
  • Owen, David
  • Page, Vanessa
  • Paris Review
  • Patterson, Carol
  • Perera, Indrani
  • photography
  • Piko, Gregory
  • Poem Talk
  • poetry
  • poetry collections
  • Poetry London
  • Poetry Pedlars, Launceston
  • Poetry Says (podcast series)
  • poets
  • Poets on the Line
  • Poets' Express, The
  • Price, Jacinta
  • Proctor, Vanessa
  • Pybus, Cassandra
  • Rayner, Tony
  • Reaburn, Norman
  • Red Room Poetry
  • refugees
  • Reid, Harry
  • research
  • reviews
  • Riekki, Ron
  • Rochford Street Review
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  • Rogers, Lars
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  • Roy, Anuradha
  • RSS
  • Ryan, Brendan
  • Ryan, Tracy
  • Sakr, Omar
  • Saltbush Review
  • Schindler, Pam
  • science
  • Sculthorpe-Green, Nunami
  • Seasonal Poets
  • self-publishing
  • Sendra, Tim
  • Sharkey, Michael
  • Sheerwater, Henry
  • short stories
  • Simic, Charles
  • Skilbeck-Porter, Ella
  • Skovron, Alex
  • Slade, Tim
  • Small Press Network
  • Smith, Hazel
  • Sometimes, Alicia
  • song
  • Spaulding, Ralph
  • Spineless Wonders
  • Spoken Word, 3CR
  • Stenberg, Britta
  • Strummer, Joe
  • Swain, Helen
  • Tasmanian Literary Awards
  • Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022
  • Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025
  • Tasmanian Poetry Festival
  • The Richell Prize
  • thinking aloud
  • Thorne, Tim
  • Those Folk & The Inadequates
  • Tinmouth, Valerie
  • Tiny Desk Concert
  • Tokarczuk, Olga
  • Tredennick, Mark
  • Ukraine
  • Uluru Statement from the Heart
  • Uncategorized
  • US politics
  • Vale
  • Van Rijswijk, Philomena
  • Vaughan, Eleanor
  • Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature
  • Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry
  • Webby, David
  • WestWords
  • Whish-Wilson, David
  • Whish-Wilson, Peter
  • White, Rachel
  • Whitebeach, Terry
  • Wicks, Les
  • wildness (online poetry journal)
  • Williams, Jane
  • Williams, Lucy
  • Winfield, Liz
  • Winton, Tim
  • Witek, Jules
  • Wood, Charlotte
  • Woodside
  • Woomble, Roddy
  • Woorilla Poetry Prize
  • Writers' Week, Adelaide Festival
  • Yee, Grace
  • Young, Damon
  • Young, Mark
  • Yukon Blonde
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