A note from Indrani Perera’s newsletter ‘The Poet’s Express’, (November 2022 issue) exploring Eleanor Jackson’s creation, the Melbourne Poetry Map. Take a walking tour around the city of Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) courtesy of some of the city’s finest poets. Curated by poet and performer, Eleanor Jackson, the Melbourne Poetry Map is a brilliant way to discover a city. About The…
Courtney Marie Andrews, ‘Loose Future’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ZaU2hCdOY&list=RDj2ZaU2hCdOY&index=1
Reading David Marr’s ‘Stories, Essays & Speeches’ (Black Inc 2018)
Reading David Marr’s publication of a few years ago, ‘Stories, Essays & Speeches’ … it surprises me at times the way that personal connections have a habit of arising unexpectedly. In Marr’s essay on John Gorton, he mentions Gorton’s elevation to Minister for the Navy in 1958, explaining Gorton being told ‘never to use the…
Review, David Mason poetry collection ‘Pacific Light’ (Los Angeles Review of Books, 20 Nov 2022)
Thoughtful words, both by and about US poet David Mason, now resident in Tasmania. Siham Karami reviews Mason’s Pacific Light (Forty South Publishing, Sept 2022)…. In this collection, we sense it in the very first poem, “On the Shelf,” whose title rhymes with and is the same metric length as that of the final poem,…
Launch speech—Karen Knight’s & Jules Witek’s ‘AT FIRST GLANCE’
Launch also covers Jules Witek’s photographic exhibition, both were launched by Liz McQuilkin, at Triabunna on 12th November 2022
WestWords—David Adès and Peter Boyle in conversation [24th Nov 2022]
More than an hour of poetry and conversation between poets David Adès and Peter Boyle, on Peter’s selected theme— exploring the unknown in life. DAVID Peter, with the theme that you’ve selected ‘Exploring the unknown in life’, you’re reading poems today from your last two books ‘Ideas of travel’, and ‘Notes towards the dream book of endings’….
Small Press Network—2022 Book of the Year Award: winner Eleanor Jackson
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! Below, from Small Press Network’s Fiona Wallace’s interview with Eleanor earlier in the month: Q. Your poems have a powerful sense of immersion in the…
Colette—from the short story ‘Grape Harvest’
She wanted some more bacon, and cut into the peasant bread, made of pure wheat, brown but succulent, and demanded from the gnarled giant an account of the war of 1870. It was brief. “What’s to say? It wasn’t a very pretty sight … I remember everybody falling all around me and dying in their…
Woorilla Poetry Prize 2022
The Woorilla Poetry Prize was judged this year by Kevin Brophy and Alicia Sometimes, with the awards event taking place in Emerald, Victoria. Kevin Brophy spoke briefly about the judging process. ‘I guess I want to remind you at the start that judging a poetry competition is a very human process. There is a human…
Ukrainian folk music quartet DakhaBrakha—NPR Music Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
DakhaBrakha—an NPR Music Tiny Desk (Home) concert DakhaBrakha … founded in 2004 … The group’s name derives from Ukrainian verbs daty and braty, which mean “give” and “take”, respectively.