After a break, poetry is back in Launceston on Tuesday 12th April, in the back bar area of the Sports Garden Hotel, corner of George and Cimitiere Streets. It will be a re-launch of POETRY PEDLARS. Arrive between 7 p.m. and 7.30 for a 7.30 reading start, but come earlier if you want to read in…
Month: March 2022
Children’s book ‘Tyenna’ (Julie Hunt, Terry Whitebeach) — launched by Daniela Brozek
Launch of the new children’s book Tyenna. The Hobart Bookshop presents Julie Hunt and Terry Whitebeach with an introduction from Daniela Brozek discussing the book and what they have learned about the Tasmanian environment. (from Allen & Unwin) An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl’s experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They…
A poet’s view of the war….
(Talia Lavin, ‘The Intelligencer’, 15th March 2022: ‘The War Never Left. A conversation with Ilya Kaminsky about memory, viral poetry, and the tragedy of Ukraine.) Which poets in Russian and Ukrainian, contemporary and past, should we be reading to understand this moment? We don’t read the poets to understand the moment. We read poets to…
Vale Blaise van Hecke
Saddened to hear this…. A well-respected figure in the publishing industry and an avid ally of small press publishing in particular, Blaise van Hecke died suddenly on 13 March 2022. (ArtsHub)
2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
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a few exciting things happening at Calanthe!
(from Vanessa Page, at ‘Worded Page’, discussing recent publications from Queensland publisher Calanthe Press including her own Botanical Skin ) Back in January Calanthe Press launched its new website and if you haven’t had a chance to explore it yet, I encourage you to take the time. Read the post in full at Worded Page