poet and friend who died yesterday in his chair at home.
Ken - call me when you get there.
Call me collect, if needs be.
Just want to hear how things are -
and, basically, where and when things are
without time and space.
Not much imagery to inspire you and
your metronome is silent by your guitar.
No time for poetry there, I guess.
Well, one good thing: you didn't splutter
into silence like a candle with a burnt-out wick.
May I wish for you as I always have
printer's ink for your crafted words.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Applications open: Chief Executive Officer
Australian Poetry believes in the power of words. Australian Poetry is the national body for poetry, dedicated to promoting Australian poets and their work, while encouraging the poetic imagination of greater numbers of Australians.
This role is an exciting opportunity for a leader with vision, enthusiasm, imagination and advocacy skill to develop inventive programs to promote Australian poetry and its poets to national and international audiences.
Reporting to the Board, the CEO has a leading role in the preparation and implementation of Australian Poetry’s artistic, strategic, financial, and business plans, and in expanding our supporter base of funders, subscribers, donors, and benefactors.
For more information on Australian Poetry please refer to our website. To obtain a detailed position and person description please click here.
For further information contact: Peter Matthews, Chairman, Australian Poetry Limited at: chair@australianpoetry.org
Closing date: 5.00 pm, Monday, 6 July 2015
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Dutch city of Utrecht to experiment with a universal, unconditional 'basic income'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-city-of-utrecht-to-experiment-with-a-universal-unconditional-income-10345595.html
NaNoWriMo Needs YOU!
This region is in need of a Municipal Liaison for the 2015 NaNoWriMo season!
What does an ML do? Organizes local writing events, spreads the word about NaNo in your area, and gets to cheer on a group of novelists to the finish line. Think you might be interested? See this page for more information and a link to the application form.
Cheers,
NaNo HQ
Friday, June 26, 2015
Australia's Oldest Man at 109 Knits Adorable Sweaters for...
Australia's Oldest Man at 109 Knits Adorable Sweaters for...
There's an ad first, but after that it's fun news!
There's an ad first, but after that it's fun news!
Thursday, June 25, 2015
MWF Volunteers applications close Sunday
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Proust Quote
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists…”
Marcel Proust
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
VOICEBOX JUNE in Freo - all welcome!
Join us for June Voicebox Fremantle. next Monday 29th June,
doors open 6:30pm, poetry starts at 7pm.
Don't forget ... it's held at our spectacular new venue -
19 Blinco Street Fremantle.
Food available from the Blinco Street Cafe and ...
it's BYO only!
The Typewriter Project in New York
http://subconsciousofthecity.com/about/?nl=nyregion&emc=edit_ur_20150622
The Typewriter Project, the brainchild of Stephanie Berger and Nicholas Adamski, is a program of The Poetry Society of New York, producers of The Poetry Brothel and The New York City Poetry Festival.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Applications invited: Australian Poetry Chief Executive Officer
Australian Poetry believes in the power of words. Australian Poetry is the national body for poetry, dedicated to promoting Australian poets and their work, while encouraging the poetic imagination of greater numbers of Australians.
This role is an exciting opportunity for a leader with vision, enthusiasm, imagination and advocacy skill to develop inventive programs to promote Australian poetry and its poets to national and international audiences.
Reporting to the Board, the CEO has a leading role in the preparation and implementation of Australian Poetry’s artistic, strategic, financial, and business plans, and in expanding our supporter base of funders, subscribers, donors, and benefactors.
For more information on Australian Poetry and to obtain a detailed position and person description please go to: australianpoetry.org
For further information contact: Peter Matthews, Chairman, Australian Poetry Limited at: chair@australianpoetry.org
Closing date: 5.00 pm, Monday, 6 July 2015
This role is an exciting opportunity for a leader with vision, enthusiasm, imagination and advocacy skill to develop inventive programs to promote Australian poetry and its poets to national and international audiences.
Reporting to the Board, the CEO has a leading role in the preparation and implementation of Australian Poetry’s artistic, strategic, financial, and business plans, and in expanding our supporter base of funders, subscribers, donors, and benefactors.
For more information on Australian Poetry and to obtain a detailed position and person description please go to: australianpoetry.org
For further information contact: Peter Matthews, Chairman, Australian Poetry Limited at: chair@australianpoetry.org
Closing date: 5.00 pm, Monday, 6 July 2015
Friday, June 19, 2015
It's Bongo Frenzy! It's a Beatnik Shindig - FRIDAY
It's the Beatnik Shindig next Friday - Jerry Cimino's ambitious gathering takes place in San Francisco. For all the details of all the activities ("the largest Beat gathering in 20 years") go to BeatnikShindig.com.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Ted Kooser' American Life in Poetry: STREWN by Barbara Crooker
I love richly detailed descriptive poems, and this one by Barbara Crooker, who lives in Pennsylvania, is a good example of how vivid a picture a poem can offer to us. Her most recent book is Selected Poems, (Future Cycle Press, 2015).
Strewn
It’d been a long winter, rags of snow hanging on; then, at the end
of April, an icy nor’easter, powerful as a hurricane. But now
I’ve landed on the coast of Maine, visiting a friend who lives
two blocks from the ocean, and I can’t believe my luck,
out this mild morning, race-walking along the strand.
Every dog within fifty miles is off-leash, running
for the sheer dopey joy of it. No one’s in the water,
but walkers and shellers leave their tracks on the hardpack.
The flat sand shines as if varnished in a painting. Underfoot,
strewn, are broken bits and pieces, deep indigo mussels, whorls
of whelk, chips of purple and white wampum, hinges of quahog,
fragments of sand dollars. Nothing whole, everything
broken, washed up here, stranded. The light pours down, a rinse
of lemon on a cold plate. All of us, broken, some way
or other. All of us dazzling in the brilliant slanting light.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2015 by Barbara Crooker, “Strewn,” from More (C&R Press, 2010). Poem reprinted by permission of Barbara Crooker and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Monday, June 15, 2015
Poetry at the Dan - ANNA FORSYTH
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Saturday, June 13, 2015
RIP Allan Browne 1944 - 2015
A monster drummer and leader in Australian jazz, Allan Browne has bowed out.
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| Birth name | Allan Vincent Browne |
| Born | 28 July 1944 |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Drummer, Composer |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1960's - Present |
| Labels | JazzHead, Newmarket Music |
| Website | www |
Life and career
Initially self-taught, Allan spent the 1960s establishing the The Red Onion Jazz Band internationally, along with close friends Brett Iggulden and Bill Howard. He led this group through three extended European tours (including appearances at the Polish and Hungarian Jazz Festivals) in 1967,1969 and 1994. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, after studying percussion with Graham Morgan, Allan worked extensively with Peter Gaudion, Geoff Kitchen, Ken Shroeder, Vince Jones, Barney Mc All, Steve Grant and Paul Grabowsky's Trio and Quintet. Simultaneously he led the contemporary jazz group Onaje, which was selected to represent Australia at the prestigious Montreal Jazz Festival in 1992. Also in demand as an accompanist, Allan has worked with over 35 International Jazz icons including Milt Jackson, Jay Mc Shann, Herb Ellis, Phil Woods, Al Cohn, Plas Johnson, Jimmy Witherspoon, Art Hodes, Barney Kessel, Urbie Green, Buddy Tate, Joe Newman, Mal.Waldren, Johnny Griffin, Scott Hamilton, Wild Bill Davidson, Urbie Green, Ronnie Scott, Charlie Bird, Ralph Sutton, Sheilah Jordan, Red Holloway, Emily Remla and Richie Cole.read on at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Browne
Friday, June 12, 2015
Ornette Coleman RIP - Always Free
A life, an estimation and some fine links to YouTube clips all here. Praise the life of Ornette and his plastic horn!
http://abcjazz.net.au/features/a-changer-of-the-century
http://abcjazz.net.au/features/a-changer-of-the-century
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
$20,000 Prize Pool - Newcastle Poetry Prize
The Newcastle Poetry Prize
is one of Australia's oldest & most distinguished literary prizes
~ celebrating 34 years in 2015
~ $20,000 prize pool awarded by the University of Newcastle
Write
A poem, or suite of poems, up to 200 lines
Win
First prize: $12 000
Second prize: $5 000
Third prize: $1 000
Local Award: $500
Harri Jones Memorial Prize (for a poet <35 font="" years="">
Hunter Writers Centre members' award: $200
A poem, or suite of poems, up to 200 lines
Win
First prize: $12 000
Second prize: $5 000
Third prize: $1 000
Local Award: $500
Harri Jones Memorial Prize (for a poet <35 font="" years="">
Hunter Writers Centre members' award: $200
2015 Newcastle Poetry Prize Judges
Robert Gray
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Judith Beveridge
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I love the challenge of trying to find the right words and turn language into song. I write because writing tells me more than anything else does about the state of my imagination and inner life. Judith Beveridge. Read the full article here
Nicholas Pounder 2015 Catalogue - READ ON
Artists Books. Assembly. Small Press Publications. Poetry. Dada. Letterisme. Signed & Inscribed Books. Association Copies. Maurice Lemaitre. Isidore Isou. John Forbes. Ken Bolton. Pam Brown. William Burroughs. Concrete Poetry. Visual Poetics. Fluxus.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
VLAK 5 _ Sydney Reading
VLAK 5 gets closes out its DOWNUNDER tour in SYDNEY at the Woolley Building (Sydney University), 6pm, featuring readings by Kate Lilley, Pam Brown, John Tranter, Cecilia White, Peter Minter, Carol Jenkins, Louis Armand, Toby Fitch & more TBC.
12 August 2015
6pm
John Wooley Building
University of Sydney
The event is free & open to everyone. There will be limited copies of VLAK available, so don't miss out! 664 pages of far-out, mind-blowing writing & visual art from around the world. There's nothing else like it.
http://
Contributors: Marina Abramović, Seth Abramson, Bruno Adams, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Gwendolyn Albert, Ali Alizadeh, Ian Almond, Bjarte Alvestad, Robert Archambeau, Louis Armand, Marc Atkins, Tim Atkins, Zbyněk Baladrán, Stephanie Barber, Charles Bernstein, Felix Bernstein, Edmund Berrigan, Johannes Birringer, Vít Bohal, Ken Bolton, Amaranth Borsuk, Nicole Brossard, Pam Brown, Finn Brunton, Justin Bryant, Pascalle Burton, David Buuck, Robert Carrithers, Sean Carswell, Jim Chaffee, Abigail Child, Adrian Clarke, Wayne Clements, Tim Conley, Clark Coolidge, Vincent Dachy, Steve Dalachinsky, Ailbhe Darcy, James Davies, Jeremy M. Davies, Mark Paul Divo, Johanna Drucker, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Lori Emerson, Vadim Erent, Vincent Farnsworth, Michael Farrell, Nathaniel Farrell, Allen Fisher, Toby Fitch, SJ Fowler, Ulli Freer, Chris Funkhouser, Thor Garcia, Miranda Gavin, Nada Gordon, Helen Grace, Stephanie Gray, Lisa Gye, Catherine Hales, Matt Hall, Alan Halsey, Robert Hampson, Philip Hammial, Susan Hawthorne, Ian Hays, Yasmin Heisler, Lyn Hejinian, Matt Hetherington, Jeff Hilson, Bob Holman, Jana Horáková, DJ Huppatz, Paul Ingram, Mark W. Jacobs, Peter Jaegger, Harold Jaffe, Carol Jenkins, Gareth Jenkins, Tom Jenks, Travis Jeppesen, Doug Jones, Keith Jones, Pierre Joris, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Trevor Joyce, Justin Katko, Vincent Katz, John Kinsella, Virginia Konchan, Alena Kotzmannová, Zsolt Láng, Hank Lazer, Jane Lewty, Manuel P. Lopez, Niall Lucy, Anna Macdonald, Jan Macháček, Richard Makin, Jane Malcolm, Sophie Malleret, Adrian Martin, Aidan McCardle, Anthony Mellors, Erika Mikkalo, Drew Milne, Nick Montfort, Sarah Moriarty, Ian Morris, Bill Mousoulis, Vicky Mousoulis, Ken Nash, Jeroen Nieuwland, Mette Norrie, Damien Ober, Andrew Oldham, Julian Oliver, Kirby Olson, Fábio Paiva, Holly Pester, Eva Ulrike Pirker, Vanessa Place, Rachelle Rahme, Kit Robinson, Nathan Roche, Jerome Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Jim Ruland, Kaia Sand, Gordan Savičić, Larry Sawyer, Seekers of Lice, Daniella Seel, Phil Shoenfelt, Lucie Skřivánková, Adrian Slatcher, Linus Slug the Younger, Philippe Sollers, Alan Sondheim, Jasper Spoelstra, Brian Kim Stefans, Lesley Stern, Stephanie Strickland, Holly Tavel, Sonny Rae Tempest, Philip Terry, Lotto Thiessen, Darren Tofts, Jáchym Topol, Adam Trachtman, John Tranter, Matt Trease, Lawrence Upton, Danja Vasiliev, David Vichnar, Ann Vickery, Divya Victor, Melchior Vischer, Mark Waldron, Corey Wakeling, Lewis Warsh, Marjorie Welish, Elaine Whittaker, D. Harlan Wilson, Kyoko Yoshida, Ali Znaidi.
Sunday, June 07, 2015
Australian Radio National HIGHLIGHTS COMING UP
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