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It’s always good to catch up with poet Geoff Goodfellow. He’s been touring Tasmania this week, visiting local schools and the prison, talking poetry. ‘You’re becoming a local, Geoff…. ’ …
Feedback for Michael Sharkey’s ‘Many Such As She: Victorian Australian Women Poets of World War One’
Some welcome feedback for Michael Sharkey’s anthology, Many Such as She…. “I’ve just been having another and deeper look into those women ‘war’ poets you’ve so assiduously collected and wonderfully …
‘Lottie’s Little Girl’ is a delightful essay. It confirms the perception of a deep romantic streak in Pybus. As a historian, Pybus tries to disentangle from mere myth the links …
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BOB BROWN ‘ … surely it is much more powerful to have some Greens in there influencing Labor than to have a number of Labor people elected who have to …
Managed to put up issue four of Communion two or three days ago, good to have had some feedback. Included a couple of interviews – one with Philomena van Risjwick, …
SUSAN AUSTIN In 2007 you helped to found Students Against the Pulp Mill and lead demonstrations in Hobart and Launceston where students walked out of school to protest against the …
‘Somebody that I used to know‘
Went along to the Lark on Wednesday to listen to Pete Hay in conversation with Laurie Brinklow and Deirdre Kessler, on the notion (what else?) of islandness. The Lark …
Tuesday 24th November 2009 — Travelled over to Victoria with Jane on the weekend, to the Castlemaine readings run by Ross Donlon at the Guildford pub. Caught up with Robyn …
Went round to visit Jane, she told me a story about how the one of the MC’s at the festival – a young woman – introduced her as ‘Mister’, then …
TASMANIAN POETRY FESTIVAL, 2006 Some emailed notes from the festival’s Cameron Hindrum: Firstly and most IMPORTANTLY, the DATE for this year’s Festival is October 13-15. Please have this tattooed somewhere …
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 …
A small crowd has gathered at Hobart Bookshop for the announcement of the winner of the Gwen Harwood Prize. Island’s editor David Owen welcomes guests, thanks judges Adrienne Eberhard and Kevin Gillam, “two individuals far apart …
Various things draw me to Hobart’s Republic Hotel this afternoon, not least the fact that Pete Hay is reading today. Compere Liz Winfield opens proceedings with work by Barney Roberts …
A memorial service/wake/poetry reading to remember and celebrate the life and work of Magenta Bliss (formerly Jenny Boult) will be held at Gallus Bar, 61 Cameron Street Launceston from 4.00 …
Awarded to Jane Williams for her poem ‘My mother’s travel diary’.
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
‘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) …
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 …
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: …
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 …
KATE MIDDLETON You were saying before that you’ve written work that has been quite experimental in the past where you feel you might have pushed that too far – what …
KATE MIDDLETON Joan Didion once said of her novels that her first sentence has to be perfect, because everything grows from that, and once you’ve got your first paragraph written, …