A southern summer issue of otoliths’ (issue sixty-four), is online featuring the work of 120—130 writers and artists including Tony Beyer, Les Wicks, Pete Spence, John M. Bennett, Eileen R. Tabios, Sheila E. Murphy, Cameron Morse, Alyssa Gillespie and many more. Nothing by editor Mark Young in the issue, but you can savour some recent…
A time of goodbyes
(From Anne Layton-Bennett’s blog) But the analogy holds given that during the closing weeks of 2021 Tasmania – and particularly Launceston – lost three of its finest people in Tim, Annie and Peter. They were all leaders in their field, and were truly lovely, caring and generous individuals. I feel privileged to have known all…
Geoff Goodfellow’s verse novella for younger readers, ‘Blight Street’
The launch of Geoff Goodfellow’s new book, published December 2021 (Walleah Press) and due to be launched in Hobart late February 2022, has been deferred due to covid considerations. More details when available.
Ron Moss — ‘Cloud Hands’ (Nov 2021)
Ron C. Moss is a Tasmanian poet and artist whose haiku and short form poetry, has appeared in leading journals and anthologies across the world. His award-winning poems have been featured many times and translated into several languages. ‘Cloud Hands’ (Walleah Press) is the fourth major collection of Ron’s previously published haiku, and it brings…
Laurie Brinklow — ‘My island’s the house I sleep in at night’ (Oct 2021)
Being an islander means that you aren’t like everyone else.” Bounded by water, you can live your life with certainty knowing where your edges are. Drawn from interviews with artists from Newfoundland and Tasmania, these poems capture what it means to be an islander. To know every rock and tickle, “the sea your road/the hole…
thinking aloud
It’s the Queen’s Birthday Holiday. Kevin Brophy has won an AM, a version of an Order of Australia Medal.
thinking aloud
Reading a new poem daily — working my way through a few Robert Adamson poems at the beginning of ‘Contemporary Australian Poetry’. Love the way I come back to these poems with some sort of relish, appreciating his vision, his ‘association with the dead (writers)’ (my italics), his writing of experiences (ie driving his boat…
thinking aloud
Spent a lovely evening with Anne and Giles last night, fed a meal of fish and salad and gem melon. Giles enthused about the artist Klimt, and Hieronymous Bosch, and showed me his book on Peter Bruegel the Elder, I mentioned the painting I came across last week — Bruegel’s ‘The blind leading the blind’,…
Minsk
Valzhyna Mort, in an interview, characterises the people of Belarussia as having undergone much, and being a non-aggressive people, basically. And it clicked — what might have caused the people of Minsk to be so non-belligerent? What part of her history can this be attributed to? To the USSR, since 1917? Or much earlier? Is…
thinking aloud
Went along to the AGM of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival last night. I didn’t nominate for the committee, and I’m glad I didn’t cos there were more nominees (6) than vacancies (4).