The Divided Self: A Tasmanian Odyssey (Graeme Hetherington) Hobart Bookshop, 5.30pm, Thursday 13th October Ralph Spaulding will launch Graeme Hetherington’s new poetry book ‘The Divided Self: A Tasmanian Odyssey. This is Graeme’s ninth poetry collection and portrays the poet’s troubled journey to escape an “afflicted self” shadowed with loneliness and paranoia. Tautly crafted short stanzas…
Month: September 2022
08 Oct 2022—Thérèse Corfiatus, book launch (Ulverstone)
A new poetry collection, Bridge of Words—a collaboration between Thérèse Corfiatis of Ulverstone, and Britta Stenberg of Sweden—will be launched by Fay Forbes at the Red Cross Hall, 49 King Edward Street, Ulverstone, 2-4pm Saturday 8th October, 2022. Thérèse is a featured guest of this month’s Tasmanian Poetry Festival (Launceston 30th Sept / 2nd Oct),…
07 Oct 2022—book launch, Kevin Brophy (Melbourne)
Brunswick Bound, an independent bookstore in the heart of Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne, celebrates the release of Kevin Brophy’s latest collection of short fiction: The Lion in Love. The event is free to attend—RSVP to info@brunswickbound.com.au …
06 Oct 2022—book launch, Robbie Arnott (Hobart)
Shambles Brewery, 222 Elizabeth Street, Hobart Tas 7000. Thursday 6th October, starts at 6:00 pm, launched by Senator Peter Whish-Wilson. Tickets $10 from Fullers Bookshop In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are…
04 Oct 2022—Tamar Valley Writers Festival, Youth Program (Launceston)
TAMAR VALLEY WRITERS FESTIVAL YOUTH PROGRAM In the first week of the school holidays, FIVE workshops are spread across Exeter and the Northern Suburbs – with three repeating to make sure that everyone can access the sessions with ease. Sessions are $5 each and can be booked on Eventbrite or at Starting Point Neighbourhood…
… indiscriminately distributed
‘But Johnny Topo now had other customers and was asking if they wanted the sweet biscuits or the salty ones in exactly the tones he had put those questions to Latika and Gouri. Latika turned away, disappointed that his voice was so indiscriminately distributed. Her discontent returned and she wished again that her tea were…
Vale Hilary Mantel
British author Hilary Mantel, who won the Booker Prize twice for the first two books of her Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70. I confess to not being familiar with her work, but her obituary speaks of her capacity for the historical novel—including the Wolf Hall trilogy wherein she writes of the 16th Century…
The ABC’s ‘My Garden Path’—Rob Blakers
A new episode of the ABC’s ‘Gardening Australia’ appeared last week, featuring Tasmanian photographer Rob Blakers— ‘My Garden Path—We head down the garden path with Rob Blakers, a photographer whose love of natural places has inspired the garden he cultivates for his local community.’ Blakers is renowned in Tasmania for his iconic wilderness photography. I…
Angélique Kidjo—Tiny Desk Concert 12th Sept 2022
Twenty minutes of energy with Angélique Kidjo for NPR’s tiny Desk Concert.
Snuggle Up with Spineless: ‘Ecliptical’—featuring Hazel Smith
A Spineless Wonders Youtube presentention of—readings by Hazel Smith, a presentation by Roger Dean, a conversation between Hazel and Anne Brewster, and a talk by Joy Wallace. The event took place in June 2022 and was placed online on 25th August and is available for viewing here. It’s 1 hr 28 min in length. …
Anuradha Roy interview, ‘The Rumpus’ (Aug 2022)
For some reason, I found myself looking up the name ‘Arundhati Roy’, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 for her novel The God of Small Things—and came across another name, that of Anuradha Roy. Damn webpage, I thought, can’t even spell. It wasn’t till…. Ok, completely different individual, my bad. And…
Eureka Street—Vol 32 No 16 (2022)
Eureka Street, published by Jesuit Publications, was founded in 1991—a print magazine for fifteen years that went online from 2006. It was edited by Morag Fraser from 1991 to 2003, and is currently edited by David Halliday. In an interview in 1995, Richard Flanagan voiced the opinion that “Eureka Street has been a huge success story because…
Anna Cadden’s film—’Pacific Light: Poems of Renewal by David Mason’
‘Pacific Light: Poems of Renewal by David Mason’, a film by Anna Cadden with underwater photography by Cally Conan-Davies, is a meditation on life, work, poetry and the soul. Poems are from David’s book Pacific Light (Red Hen Press, 2022), available through https://bookshop.org/books/pacific-li… David Mason was born in Washington State, forty-odd degrees north latitude, and…
Tasmanian poet Tim Slade, reading ‘Thylacine’
Tim Slade’s been writing poetry for a decade, his work has appeared in publications as diverse as The Weekend Australian, The Koori Mail, Australian Poetry Anthology, Growing Up Disabled In Australia and Cordite Poetry Review. Originally from Hobart, he settled in the tiny Tasmanian town of Pioneer a decade ago where he’s drawn inspiration for…
Otoliths # 66
When introducing issue sixty-six of online lit journal ‘Otoliths’ some weeks back, Mark Young noted that following the next issue, ‘there will be another four issues of Otoliths & then the journal will close with issue seventy, the southern winter 2023 issue.’ Which is a blow for writers & readers…. Founded in 2006, ‘Otoliths’ experiments…
Uluru Statement from the Heart: Sydney Peace Prize winner 2021—2022
On 3rd August 2022, the Australia Institute posted both a video, and a transcript, of a conversation between Pat Anderson, Professor Megan Davis and Archie Law about the Uluru Statement from the Heart and its three objectives: a Voice to Parliament, Treaty, and Truth. Beginning of the conversation, host Ebony Bennett asked about the process…