Category: Seasonal Poets

Seasonal Poets – The Summer Reading | Monday February 26th (Hobart)

Seasonal Poets returns to Hobart on Monday 26th February for the Summer Reading with poets Pamela Leach, Irene McGuire and Peter Jerrim.

Seasonal Poets’ new venue is Fullers Bookshop 131 Collins Street and tickets are $10.00 at the door or via the Fullers website: www.fullersbookshop.com.au./events

The $10.00 which no longer needs to be cash includes a glass of wine or non-alcoholic beverage.

Please note the new start time of 5:30.

For further details contact: seasonalpoets@gmail.com.

(Forwarded by Anne Collins, Gina Mercer, Irene McGuire
co-curators: Seasonal Poets)

Seasonal Poets Summer Reading — 26th February, Hobart

2024 is bringing changes to Seasonal Poets. Seasonal Poets will be partnering with Fullers Bookshop for each of its Seasons. The format will continue as it has always been, with three poets each reading for 20 minutes.

The biggest change is the venue. After seven years at Hadley’s Hotel, Seasonal Poets will now be meeting at Fullers Bookshop. And, tickets will be available through the Fullers ticketing link or at the door. This means not having to remember to have cash. The tickets will remain at $10.00. And the sessions will begin at 5:30 and run to 7:00. Wine will be available for purchase in the café.

More from the Co-curators of Seasonal Poets (Gina Mercer, Anne Collins and Irene McGuire):

‘We would like to thank Taswriters for all their help in making Seasonal Poets a reality. We could not have survived for seven years without their support. Unfortunately, they are no longer in a position to continue to subsidise our readings at Hadley’s.

‘We would also like to thank Hadley’s Hotel for their support over these same years.

And, we would like to thank Fullers Bookshop for giving us a new home to continue to present Tasmanian poets to an appreciative audience.

‘Thank you for supporting Seasonal Poets.

‘More details will follow closer to the February readings.’

 

Seasonal Poets, Hobart, 17th July — A Taste of Poems from our Winter Poets

Dear Friends of Seasonal Poets,
Each of our featured poets, Pam Schindler, Therese Corfiatis and Susan Austin has provided a poem for you to ‘taste’ before the reading.
As usual, RSVPs are essential and admission is $10.00 (cash only) at the door.
We look forward to seeing you at Hadley’s on Monday, July 17th at 6:00.
Cheers,
Irene, Anne and Gina
Anne Collins, Gina Mercer, Irene McGuire
co-curators: Seasonal Poets at Hadley’s

Silent Hands by Therese Corfiatis

gums form a swaying fabric –

pale grey, silvery olive leaves

meld and merge

into the sky’s blue loom

clouds unwind their threads –

long milky fingers

weave the wind’s rhythms

with silent hands

Half a moon by Pam Schindler

Come and stay,

there’ll be half a moon by Sunday,

a gleaming bowlful of dark

enough to feed

the lover in me, the elusive

heart in you –

all the lost chances,

they are here still,

turning in sleep

in the dark bowl

the new moon comes carrying

like a gift.

Sonnet for lost lasts by Susan Austin

His class lines up in pairs at the berry farm.
His free hand is held out for me to find.
I’m surprised to feel his whole hand in my palm:
he used to curl his fingers round one of mine.
Another little last, like the daytime nap?
Last time I hold his hand to cross a street,
last picture book read snuggled in my lap,
the final time I help him brush his teeth.
When will be the last we share a bath?
No camera will snap the final trolley ride,
the moment plastic cups give way to glass.
His fluffy monkey comforter will slide –
with the glee he gets from using arms to fart –
into that chest of lost lasts in my heart.

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 looking forward to our May Autumn reading and hope you are as well.

We would like to leave you with the poem ‘Window’ by Tim Thorne who died in September.

Window
What is the mind that would invent the lock?
What are the pathways of the brain
that must be followed with no ball of string
to arrive at a device
which excludes? Why would you start?

If this slab of the earth
was where you had always been,
there would be no entry point,
no threshold of distrust, only the base
ab origine home and whole.

Cook and Banks cased the place, reported back.
(This mob didn’t do disorganised crime.)
‘It is a place of curios if it is, at all,
a place.’ The Enlightenment understood
locus in its richest meaning.

Meanwhile need, greed and curiosity
(those drivers of all crime)
were building against a coastline
that bound like straps. Something
(by Hegel!) had to give. Someone

had to go. The blue chasm had to
be bridged, the stormy lanes traversed,
the metaphors of danger maelstrom-mixed.
Easier than wriggling through a window
as it turned out, the landing was made.

ABR, States of Poetry 2016 – TAS – Tim Thorne
Thank you all for supporting poetry and Seasonal Poets.

Regards,
Gina Mercer, Anne Collins and Irene McGuire, co-curators