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 …
(from an interview with Glyn F. Edwards, published in the Welsh journal Modron Magazine (Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis), April 14th 2024. Q4. Sexuality and ecology are central …
(song) Adrianne Lenker, Sadness as a Gift (2024)
Thursday 21st March 2023 — 18:00 to 20:00 UTAS Inveresk Library celebrates Tasmanian Reads Week with ‘The Place that Made Us: Martin Flanagan in conversation with Cameron Hindrum’. Martin Flanagan …
Caitlin Cassidy, The Guardian, 10th March 2024 “We’ve set up a crazy system where publishers own and control knowledge and we’ve let them do that,” Foley says. “Researchers give content …
A throw-away line from her novel, ‘The Peppered Moth’ | ‘Bessie is a widow now, and she and Chrissie are … pretending to watch BBC nine o’clock news. (Bessie refuses, …
Winners of the 2023 Troubadour International Poetry Prize (1st Prize 2000 pounds, 2nd 1000 pounds, 3rd 500 pounds) have been announced. And of the three prizewinners and 19 commended, four …
KEY DATES FOR THE 2023 AWARD, for first books published during 2023. Open call for entries – Monday, 15 January 2024 Close of entries – Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 5pm …
A discussion group that includes Australian writers, teachers and academics is campaigning to get an editor and academic sacked and funding withdrawn, in response to a literary journal’s publication of …
The TPF 2024 kicks off its first pre-festival event with a book launch by Koraly Dimitriadis – a Melbourne poet, performance artist, film maker and short story writer. Join us …
Huge congrats to Grace Yee (and Giramondo) whose debut collection Chinese Fish, published by Giramondo, was this evening awarded both the Victorian Premier’s Award for Literature, and the Victorian Premier’s …
‘Into The Blue’ … Recorded at Celtic Connections 2009, Glasgow,Scotland. Kris Drever, John McCusker and Roddy Woomble . Harmony vocals – Heidi Talbot
The Hollywood Inn, Co. Wicklow: “Scottish Hebrides singer Julie Fowlis & Kerry singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh singing ‘Dá bhFaighfinn Mo Rogha de Thriúr Acu’ (0:00), Dhannsamaid Le Ailean (1:24) & …
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 …
Author Simon Grove, illustrator Keith Davis and Dr Sally Bryant AM joined in conversation to mark the launch of Simon’s new book ‘Seasons in the South’, at Fullers Bookshop in …
The Booranga Writers’ Centre has been unsuccessful in it’s bid for annual funding from Create NSW under Chris Minn’s Labor government. This came as a real shock to the Booranga …
The Bruny Island Bird Festival: Bringing together Science, Conservation, Community and Creativity to create three days of enjoyment and education about the birdlife of this wonderful island. Packed with new …
… the Aran jumper crowd (Pat Carty, ‘The Sunday Times, 3rd December 2023) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shane-macgowan-the-man-who-made-irish-music-cool-gj0fvk505 (apologies, it’s probably behind a firewall) Rum Sodomy & the Lash made it into the UK …
Metric — ‘Formentera’, from their 2022 album ‘Formentera’. Live at the Fillmore in Philadelphia, 2022.
2 paragraphs from Doris Lessing’s ‘Under My Skin’ (vol one, autobiography to 1949) Something else happened, which I have had to think about ever since. At a Mission in Old …
A Bothwell storytelling event featuring Kim Nielsen-Creeley, Marilyn Arnold, Tim Hurburgh and Mallika Naguran. Friday 1 December at the BoHo (Bothwell Hotel) from 3-6 pm. Listen to stories and poems …
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Launch also covers Jules Witek’s photographic exhibition, both were launched by Liz McQuilkin, at Triabunna on 12th November 2022
The Small Press Network (SPN) this evening announced the winner of the 2022 Small Press Network Book of the Year Award (BOTY): Gravidity and Parity by Eleanor Jackson, published by Vagabond Press! …
Sophie Haigney, writing for ‘The Paris Review’ (17th Nov 2022) about the artefacts being auctioned in the US at the Joan Didion estate sale…. Then there were the three lots …
Jane’s poetry residency in Slovakia in 2016 led to an introduction to Hungarian and Slovak music. This, from Csik Zenekar, (recorded 2009)….
Lovely to see that Anne Collins has launched her newest collection of poems and prose—’Listening to the Deep Song’ (Bright South)—in Hobart last week. The book was launched at …
The Australian Haiku Society has announced a call for submissions for the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology (4AHA) that will showcae the work of poets who are writing haiku in Australia …
Myron Lysenko, in conversation with Tina Giannoukos on 3CR Spoken Word this morning, Thursday 27th Oct 2022. “A lot of the Ukrainian people believe that we will win the war, …
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An essay by Maria G. Rewakowicz, published in ‘Los Angeles Review of Books’, 22 Feb 2022 Ever since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and soon after stirred the conflict in …
The Tasmanian Poetry Festival committee is holding its AGM tonight. Half tempted to go along and put my hand up, but not sure how well I’d perform within a committee.
Thursday 27th April, 2006 – 5.30pm, Hobart Bookshop, Hobart. Island 104 was launched in Hobart this evening by Norman Reaburn, Chair of Island’s Management Committee. Norman spoke of the procedures …
Interesting – from an Australian point of view – to come across this blog, Emerging Writers Network, by Dan Wickett in the US, given that one of the panellists is …