Call for submissions – Guide to Sydney Rivers

 

deadline: 30 June

 

Some years back Meuse Press published Guide to Sydney Beaches http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/beaches.pdf as a piece of guerrilla marketing, introducing people to poetry who were actually looking for information about specific beaches. The result was many thousands of hits. Sydney is also blessed with a number of rivers within its sprawl and we are looking at doing a companion volume.

 

We are seeking poems and photographs exploring this theme from the Hawkesbury southward. It will be an e-book freely available and as such there is unfortunately no payment for anybody. Prior publication is no problem but we would appreciate details so we can properly attribute. Also, please note with your submission which river you are referring to.

 

Editors are Susan Adams and Les Wicks. Submissions of poetry would ideally be single spaced, 12 point Word attachments. Send to meusepress@hotmail.com

 

 

ABR Short Story competition

book © 2015

Australian Book Review

Calling all short story writers! Entry is now open for the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize (worth $8,000) and the deadline has been extended to midnight May 10! The Prize is for a new short story of between 2,000 and 5,000 words, written in English and it is open to writers all over the world. Entries close May 10. ABR will publish the three shortlisted stories in the September Fiction issue and the overall winner will be announced at an event at the 2015 Brisbane Writers Festival. See our website for more information, to read previously shortlisted and winning stories, and to enter the Jolley Prize.

Entries are now open for the 2015 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The 2015 Jolley Prize is worth a total of $8,000, with a first prize of$5,000 and supplementary prizes of $2,000 and$1,000. The Jolley Prize will be judged by ABR Deputy Editor Amy Baillieu, poet and academicSarah Holland-Batt, and author Paddy O’Reilly.

Hobart Bookshop launch of Andy Jackson's new title

Frank Clarke and Jeanette Burke 

Jane Williams reading at Hobart Bookshop

Chris, Bookseller at Hobart Bookshop

Andy Jackson launching his book, IMMUNE SYSTEMS

(Transit Lounge, 2015) at Hobart Bookshop

Andrew Burke and Ralph Wessman, publisher

Walleah Press.

At Hobart Bookshop last night - shot by Ralph Wessman

Three poets – Andrew Burke, Jane Williams, Andy Jackson

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Listen to your favourite poets ...

http://www.loc.gov/collections/archive-of-recorded-poetry-and-literature/

Many hours of listening here. My favourite poets shift their place on the ladder almost daily, so I have a wonderful time with this site, darting from one to the other ... I love to hear poets read their own works!

Hear Australian Poets on The Australian Poetry Podcast

The Australian Poetry Podcast

Ever hit up iTunes looking for a podcast on Australian poetry? Once, there was Poetica, but sadly the flagship of Australian Poetry broadcasting is no more. 

If you’re like Robbie Coburn and Nathan Hondros, you’ll enjoy your daily constitutional with your earphones in, and the world in your ears. 

What you want to hear, when you want to hear it. If you’re like them, you’re hungry for the latest news on Australian poetry and interviews with the poets you love. That is exactly what they want. 

So The Australian Poetry Podcast was born. Tune in, Australian poets and poetry lovers. 

To hear all the latest in Australian Poetry and Poetics find them here.

Kate Grenville - One Life - Wednesday 29th April

In Conversation with Cath Keenan

Wednesday April 29, 6 for 6:30pm @ Gleebooks,

Opening hours: 9.00am-7.00pm Sun-Wed, 9.00am-9.00pm Thurs-Sat GMT+10:00
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Phone: +61 2 9660 2333 Fax: +61 2 9660 3597

One Life: My Mother’s Story

Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!

When Kate Grenville’s mother died she left behind many fragments of memoir. These were the starting point for One Life, the story of a woman whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In many ways Nance’s story echoes that of many mothers and grandmothers, for whom the spectacular shifts of the twentieth century offered a path to new freedoms and choices. In other ways Nance was exceptional. In an era when women were expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic, she ran successful businesses as a registered pharmacist, laid the bricks for the family home, and discovered her husband’s secret life as a revolutionary.

One Life is an act of great imaginative sympathy, a daughter’s intimate account of the patterns in her mother’s life. It is a deeply moving homage by one of Australia’s finest writers. BUY THE BOOK

About the author:

Kate Grenville’s bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize. Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History.  

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Arts NSW Visual Arts Fellowship

2015 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) Applications are now open for the 2015 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) valued at $30,000. The NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) is offered by the NSW Government to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. Activities could include: travel mentorships or internships with recognised professional artists; residencies; short-term courses, workshops or other training at recognised institutions / organisations; research, and; the creation of new work. As part of the assessment process, a shortlist of up to 12 artists will be selected to participate in an exhibition at Artspace, Sydney. Applications close midnight (AEDT Sydney) Monday, 18 May 2015.   Find out more about the 2015 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) and apply.

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Renegade Edward Snowden Monument Erected (and Quickly Removed) in Brooklyn Park

by Benjamin Sutton

The Edward Snowden bust in Fort Greene Park (photo by Sally Thurer/Instagram)

In the wee hours of Monday morning, three artists and a team of helpers illegally installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park. The faux-bronze bust, designed to blend in seamlessly with the adjacent Prison Ship Martyrs Monument to soldiers of the Revolutionary War, was placed atop a previously empty plinth, with Snowden’s last name affixed beneath the bronze eagle at the column’s base.

“If this thing gets taken down right away we’ll certainly be disappointed, but we think it’ll be worth it thanks to the internet,” one of the artists told Animal, which filmed the pre-dawn installation. “The fact that a risk was taken, the fact that an image comes out of that event that can be passed around can never be undone. So you can rip the statue out, but you can’t erase the fact that it happened and that people are sharing it.”

Read on at HYPERALLERGIC

"Piano" by D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.


for more reading on this poem, go to
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Gidean Haigh on ESPNcricinfo on Richie Benaud

If we don't remember him as an elite legspinner, a thinking captain or one of cricket's true professionals, it's because of the phenomenal work he has done as a commentator, writer and observer.           

If Arlott was the voice of cricket, Benaud was the face © Getty Images

"Did you ever play cricket for Australia, Mr Benaud?" In his On Reflection, Richie Benaud recalls being asked this humbling question by a "fair-haired, angelic little lad of about 12", one of a group of six autograph seekers who accosted him at the SCG "one December evening in 1982".
"Now what do you do?" Benaud writes. "Cry or laugh? I did neither but merely said yes, I had played up to 1963, which was going to be well before he was born. 'Oh,' he said. 'That's great. I thought you were just a television commentator on cricket.'" Autograph in hand, the boy "scampered away with a 'thank you' thrown over his shoulder".

Continue reading at http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/417141.html

regime books news

Remember All My Universes Artists Natalie Scholtz and Kate Leslie, both dear friends of Regime Books, are opening their exhibition Remember All My Universes at the Moores Building this Friday night, April 10 from 6pm to 8pm. Get down to the Moores Building (46 Henry Street, Fremantle) before April 26 to see this incredible exhibition from these two kickarse painters. Invite here. The Australian Poetry Podcast Co-hosts of our very own OzPo podcast (and Regime poets), Robbie Coburn and Nathan Hondros, have three podcasts in the bag. Guests include Regime Editor Andrew Burke, Vic Premier's Prize Winner Jill Jones and and Rochford Street Press poet and critic Mark Roberts. To hear all the latest in Australian Poetry and Poetics find us here: Australian Poetry Podcast or on iTunes. Regime Magazine's Poetry Issue Edited by renowned poet Andrew Burke, Regime 05 boasts 111 poems by the best poets at work today. New work from Andrew Taylor, Andy Jackson, Annamaria Weldon, Jill Jones, Judith Rodriguez, Geoff Page, Amanda Joy, Andrew Lansdown, Merv Lilley, and a long poem by Martin Harrison. Copies are limited, so please order now.

Andy Jackson's IMMUNE SYSTEMS Tasmanian Launch

from the desk of Geoff Page, our Canberra correspondent ...

Hello Poetry at The Gods supporters 

Don't forget the centenary tribute reading for JUDITH WRIGHT and DAVID CAMPBELL on Tues Apr 14. It will feature six Canberra poets (see below) reading their choice of the  work of these two master poets, well-known personally to many of us in Canberra as well as throughout the country — and overseas, for that matter. Centenaries of poets should not go uncelebrated. We won't be here for the two hundredth (which I'm  confident will go ahead in due course!)

Please note new start times i.e. dinner at 6 and readings at 7.30. If you'd like to join my tables up the front let me know or you may prefer to start your own table and book directly with The Gods on 6248 5538 or thegodscafe@gmail.com.

All the best 

Geoff 

PS I'll bring along a few copies of the new anthology The House is Not Quiet and the World is Not Calm: Poetry from Canberra (in case you couldn't make the launch on Tues Mar 24)

The readers are:

Kathy Kituai was born in Perth. She moved to Canberra in 1984 and has worked for more than twenty years as facilitator of creative writing courses and workshops. Her books include Struggling into Winter (Interactive Publications 2007) and In Two Minds (with Amelia Fielden) (Modern English Tanka Press 2008)

Suzanne Edgar received excellent reviews for her 2012 collection, The Love Procession. Since then she’s been writing & publishing poems and adding them to a pile which may become another book one day.

Sarah Rice moved to Canberra 1975 and works as an art theory lecturer. Her books include Those Who Travel, a limited-edition, letter-press art-book of poetry with prints by Patsy Payne (Ampersand Duck 2010). She recently won the Ron Pretty Poetry Prize.

John Foulcher  is deputy principal of an ACT secondary school. He has published nine collections of poetry, the most recent being The Sunset Assumption (Pitt Street Poetry 2012), His 101 Poems will be published by the same publisher in 2015.

Alan Gould is the author of novels, poetry collections and books of essays. His most recent collection is Capital (Puncher & Wattmann 2013) and his latest essays are in Joinery And Scrollwork (Quadrant 2013).

Geoff Page has run poetry readings and jazz concerts at the Gods Café in ANU for many years and is also well-known as a reviewer. He has published twenty-one poetry collections, two prose novels and five verse novels. His New Selected Poems came out from Puncher & Wattmann in 2013. 

Bookings essential. 6248 5538 Light meals are available at 6.00 pm ‘Non-eating’ seats can also be booked. Readings start at 7.30 pm.

Admission: $10 waged; $5 unwaged. Seating limited to 80 people. The Gods Café/Bar is in the ANU Arts Centre (across the quadrangle from the Student Union near Sullivan’s Creek).

OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST

ALAN GOULD'S NEW NOVEL LAUNCH (THURS APR 23, MANNING CLARK HOUSE, 5.30PM)

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2. Friday 8th May,7pm to 9.30pm  TANKA BOOK LAUNCHES AT MCH

Manning Clark House will host an evening of book launches,bilingual readings

of Japanese form tanka poetry,and musical performances.

We welcome back to Canberra,and to Manning Clark House,leading

Osaka poet,Noriko Tanaka.

During the evening Noriko's 4th tanka collection 'From the Middle Country',

translated by Amelia Fielden and Saeko Ogi,will be launched by Dr.Carol Hayes

from the Australian National University.

  Noriko and Carol will then read a number of the poems from this collection

in Japanese and English.

In the second half of the program a new Australian tanka anthology on the theme

of LOVE,entitled 'All You Need Is Love'',featuring the work of over 60 poets,and edited by Amelia Fielden will be launched by award-winning Canberra poet,

Melinda Smith.

  Around 20 poets from Canberra and Sydney whose tanka are published in the anthology will be in attendance and reading their own work to the audience.

Live Japanese musical items will be performed by Rupert Summerson

throughout the evening.

All welcome !