Alison Clifton reviews Points of Recognition, one of two of Jane’s collections to appear in 2021 (the other: Between Breaths, Silver Bow Publishing, Canada). ‘Jane Williams’ Points of Recognition is inherently human poetry. Her concerns are wide-ranging: from empathy to idiosyncrasy, the mundane to the marvellous, compassion to passion, diffidence and restraint to ecstasy and…
Month: February 2022
War Poetry in Ukraine: Serhiy Zhadan and Lyuba Yakimchuk
An essay by Maria G. Rewakowicz, published in ‘Los Angeles Review of Books’, 22 Feb 2022 Ever since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and soon after stirred the conflict in the southeast region of Donbas, the theme of war has figured prominently in Ukrainian prose and poetry. The ongoing war has inspired two poetic anthologies…
Launch — Les Wicks’ poetry collection ‘Time Taken — New & Selected’
Time Taken — New & Selected’, (Puncher & Wattman) is Les Wicks’ fifteenth poetry collection. 2022 will mark the 50th anniversary of Wicks’ first poem publication. His imprint Meuse Press will turn 45. He has been presenting workshops around Australia across 35 years. Time Taken is a New & Selected collection revisiting his best poems…
Launceston — ‘A Passion for Poetry’
Monday February 28 at 4pm City Park Radio, 96.5 FM or 103.7FM or live streaming on the Internet. 1st episode of ‘A Passion for Poetry’, presented by Nancy Corbett. The first program features Dylan Thomas and Leonard Cohen reading their own poems (thanks You Tube) and an interview with Colin Berry, president of the Tasmanian…
Geoff Goodfellow at Adelaide Festival, 7th March 2022
Geoff Goodfellow returns to Writers’ Week with a reading of his new verse novella, ‘Blight Street, (Walleah Press), featuring Geoff and performers Roslyn Oades and Nic Darrigo. (From the festival’s notes): “Set in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, ‘Blight Street’ is written in the language and idiom of the culture it portrays. Harrowing but tender,…
Forwarded message from Seasonal Poets (Hobart)
Subject: Seasonal Poets – February Reading Cancelled Date: 15 February 2022 at 9:10:08 am AEDT Dear Friends of Seasonal Poets, Next Monday, 21st of February, should have been our first reading for 2022 at Hadley’s Hotel. Given the current restrictions for masks and social distancing, we have reluctantly decided to cancel the reading. We are…
Tasmanian Poetry Festival, September 2022
Noting from the festival’s facebook page … the 2022 festival is now planned for September in several venues over two weekends, with some events on the weekend of the 17th and 18th and the main Festival on the following weekend, from Friday the 23rd to the 25th of September. The festival also hopes to have…
‘Otoliths’ issue sixty-four, southern summer 2022
A southern summer issue of otoliths’ (issue sixty-four), is online featuring the work of 120—130 writers and artists including Tony Beyer, Les Wicks, Pete Spence, John M. Bennett, Eileen R. Tabios, Sheila E. Murphy, Cameron Morse, Alyssa Gillespie and many more. Nothing by editor Mark Young in the issue, but you can savour some recent…
A time of goodbyes
(From Anne Layton-Bennett’s blog) But the analogy holds given that during the closing weeks of 2021 Tasmania – and particularly Launceston – lost three of its finest people in Tim, Annie and Peter. They were all leaders in their field, and were truly lovely, caring and generous individuals. I feel privileged to have known all…