(from ‘rob mclennan’s blog’, 17 April 2025) 5 – Are public readings part of or counter to your creative process? Are you the sort of writer who enjoys doing readings? I love doing readings–because they are fun and social and ephemeral experiences, but also it is a hell of a way to edit a poem….
Month: April 2025
Dulcetly (Kristy Bowen): Adventures in self-publishing
(from a post on Kristy Bowen’s blog Dulcetly | notes on a bookish life – 03 March 2025)) I was moving some books around on my shelf and realized I have now published just as many books via self-publishing as I did traditional publishing…. After 2020, I felt a shift in my relationship toward po-biz…
Rae Armantrout | ‘The absence of certainty’, a conversation with Kate Lilley
(Cordite Poetry Review, 4th February 2025) Kate Lilley: … One of the things you said when we were having a bit of back and forth about how we might do this was when I asked you what often gets left out, because everybody writes about (for good reason) the markedly intelligent, propositional, ‘thinky’ character of…
Five Islands Poetry Prize ~ for a First Book of Poetry
Terms & Conditions This is an annual prize for a first already-published book-length collection of poetry by an Australian poet or a poet living and writing in Australia. The author of the prize-winning book will receive $2750 and the publisher will receive $1100. A book can be entered by the author or publisher. The book…
Adrienne Eberhard | ‘Marie & Marie’, Paris launch
Lovely to learn of the launch in Paris last week of Adrienne Eberhard’s new collection of poems, ‘Marie & Marie’, on Saturday 5th April. Thirteen years in the making, Adrienne’s bi-lingual collection ‘Marie & Marie’ imagines the correspondence between Marie-Antoinette and Marie-Louise Girardin. Adrienne, who’s been in France overseeing the book’s publication the past month,…
Alison J Barton – on 3CR’s Spoken Word, interviewed by Indrani Perera
Enjoyed a thoughtful interview with Wurundjeri poet Alison J Barton recently, aired on 3CR’s Spoken Word program (08 August 2024)…. Indrani Perera spoke to Alison about her collection, ‘Not Telling’, Alison’s debut full-length poetry collection published by Puncher and Wattman. Perera began by asking about the book’s ‘intriguing’ title… The title came to me because…