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.
Harry Laing — ‘unsettled’ (April 2021)
‘unsettled; (Walleah Press) ‘unsettled’ is a collection of broad thematic and formal range. Laing renders our history, our current ecological crisis and some of our contemporary mores into a rich, tumbling music, as memorable as it is accessible. The poems that revisit the author’s past are especially poignant: closing some doors as the windows open…
Brendan Ryan — ‘Walk like a Cow’ (Nov 2020)
Australian poet Brendan Ryan speaks about his life in this memoir of “the child, the youth and the young man finding his footing amidst the mysteries of cows and the ruthless cycles of the farm, the dry-eyed melancholy of the milking-shed and the mercy of the weather. Here also are the puzzles of existence contained…
Hobart visit, Geoff Goodfellow – February 2019
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…. ’ ‘Well I find that when I go into the schools, the year nine’s—they won’t know me—but the year ten’s, they’ll remember me from last year,…
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 written up, and up till now I’ve found their treatment of war, loss, patriotism, etc — by which I mean their favourite ‘positions’ to couple…
thinking aloud
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, which I enjoyed a great deal, she had some good things to say about writing and music – the other with Rebecca Kylie Law, an…
Castlemaine poetry reading
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 Rowland again, she invited us to stay with her in Ireland some time if our visits coincide, ‘I rent a lovely little cottage on Ireland’s…
Thinking aloud
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 – recovering – as ‘Missus’ … causing Jane to completely drop the running order of her poems and to begin with her poem called ‘Missus’….
Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2006
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 prominently upon your person so that you DO NOT FORGET them and MISS THE FESTIVAL. (Or failing that, if you’re scared of needles, just write…
Island 104
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 followed for finding a new editor, how in the past the committee had met behind shut doors and scratched its collective head till coming up…