Alex in conversation with Di Cousens, recalling an early poetry submission…. “One of my very first submissions was from Sydney. It was to ‘Poetry Australia’, and at that time Les Murray was editing. I sent a bundle of poems representing those early ten years of my poetry writing but towards the later phase of that,…
Month: May 2022
Book extract, Tad Friend’s ‘In The Early Times’
from ‘Literary Hub’, May 11th 2022 When Day poisoned his tea with five heaping spoonfuls of sugar, Addison warned him that his teeth would fall out and that he’d get diabetes—one of her periodic public service announcements denouncing meat, cigarettes, and hypocrisy. He just scowled at her. She scoops out half his sugar when he’s…
Fullers Poets — Mary Blackwood & Liz McQuilkin: 12th May (Hobart)
Fullers Poets is a new event series celebrating contemporary poetry. The first event in this series will feature poets Liz McQuilkin (Unwrapping Clouds) and Mary Blackwood (Small Cosmos) in conversation, with readings from their work. Praise for Liz McQuilkin: ‘Liz McQuilkin has Mary Oliver’s ability to show us ordinary, yet extraordinary, moments in the natural and human worlds….
To Observe that Kind of Devotion: A conversation (Camille Dungy and Major Jackson — ‘Orion’)
(Published recently in US literary journal ‘Orion Magazine’: read the full interview) Camille: One of the things that is most exciting to me about all the best writing going on right now, all politically engaged writing (and I think environmental writing has always been politically engaged) is how it requires a roving eye. A roving eye…