Awarded to Jane Williams for her poem ‘My mother’s travel diary’.
E-Panel: October Literary Journal Editors
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 Christina Thompson, a former editor of Meanjin, and editor these days of Harvard Review. I was a journal editor in Australia before I became editor of Harvard Review,…
Print on demand (some thoughts — Mairead Byrne)
Some thoughts on the topic of print on demand from Mairead Byrne, quoted (with permission) from the British & Irish Poets mailing list. Print-on-demand is a broken link: stone cold. If you can deal with a pod company you know, where you have contacts, can call etc, it would be different. My experience has been…
The Burden of the Gospels
9th October, 2005 THE BURDEN OF THE GOSPELS Have been catching up with Dave Bonta’s blog, Via Negativa, taking up Dave’s suggestion to read the essay by Wendell Berry, just over 4,000 words in length, published in The Christian Century and slated for inclusion in Berry’s forthcoming book The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays….
Vale Ray Stuart
VALE RAY STUART Sad news. This from the Friendly Street Poets website: Friendly Street is saddened to learn of the recent death of Ray Stuart. Ray was a regular at Friendly Street for many years, making valuable contributions as poet and editor (co-editing Friendly Street Poetry Reader 24 with Jude Aquilina), Committee Member and Convenor. His warmth, wisdom, humour and poetry…
Poetry reviews & their effects
A review of Jill Jones’ 2005 collection Broken/Open [Salt Publishing] appeared in yesterday’s Weekend Australian, drawing comment today on the poetry mailing list ‘poneme’, of which Jones is a member. How much do reviews – positive or negative – affect sales? someone asked. I can’t say, Jones replied. ‘I don’t know if reviews (or indeed…
Chris Mansell —Poetry in a time of fire
‘I go into schools to do poetry workshops/readings. Everyone’s very keen on poetry in schools. It’s part of the curriculum in my state (though less than it used to be) and teenagers still write it (and SMS each other small poems — usually doggerel, often obscene) and some teachers still love it. During the course…
Hecate, issue 31 Jan 2005
A new issue of Hecate has arrived in the mail featuring poems by Gina Mercer, Jan Dean, Angela Costi, Dael Allison, Helen Hagemann, Maria Christoforatos, pio, Helen Cerne and Jena Woodhouse. There’s a special feature focussing on Women’s Suffrage with articles by Audrey Oldfield, Ann Nugent, John McCulloch and Lenore Coltheart, articles and essays including Chilla Bulbeck’s ‘Schemes and Dreams:…
Vale Selwyn Pritchard
Saddened to learn poet Selwyn Pritchard passed away at the end of June. A lovely man … his poetry perhaps epitomised by a few words of intro that appear on his website: “I want poems which don’t distance themselves, hold aloof, poems about living against the background of collapsing democracy, religion, social life and the corporate greed…
Tim Thorne’s ‘Head and Shin’
Tim Thorne’s new book ‘Head and Shin’ (Walleah Press) will be launched in Hobart by Pete Hay on Thursday 19 Aug 2004, Hobart Bookshop at 5.30 p.m. and in Launceston on Saturday 21 Aug, 2pm at Fullers Bookshop by CA Cranston.