Myron Lysenko at THE DAN June 4th

It's been happening every Saturday afternoon since the beginning of time...   well, 1994 anyway.                                  Hello Poetry Lovers Come, Eat, Drink and Listen to Poetry, put your feet up, re-boot yourself with poetry Read your poetry on the Open Mic.  View this email in your browser  Upcoming Features June 4th Myron Lysenko June 11th Sista Zai Zanda June 18th Amy Bodossian June 25th Lee Kofman July 2nd Christine Burrows   SATURDAY June 4th - Dan Poets presents Myron Lysenko     Myron Lysenko is a versatile poet who likes to teach poetic devices and creative writing. He has been poet-in-residence in over one thousand schools since 1989, conducting poetry writing workshops up and down the East coast of Australia.  His poetry and haiku have featured on television and radio, in newspapers, magazines, journals and anthologies. Myron Lysenko is a performer, haiku tutor, public speaker, workshop leader, editor, humourist, publisher, song-writer, ginko leader, and convenor of the Chamber Poets a readings in Woodend. Myron is also the leader of the poetry band: Black Forest Smoke which is the resident band at the Chamber Poet Readings. Dan Poets, every Saturday, 2-5pm. Free Entry Includes open mic. Rotating MCs Anne, Libby, Norman and Steve. Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning St Carlton. Licensed premises. Kids welcome but must be accompanied by an adult.

Southerly is looking for an Administrator

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Jeanette Wintersun on Arts Funding

 

The arts aren’t a luxury activity. They are central to life. Art is the part of us that is met, and that can't be met in the outside world.

 

JEANETTE WINTERSON

 

Jeanette Winterson answers a question from the audience about arts funding,

as part of her Wheeler Centre event (16 May 2016)

Read on HERE

from the desk of Pam Brown ...

dear friends & readers,

Melbourne poet Michael Farrell 

& Sydneysider Pam Brown 

will be reading from their work

on monday evening may 23 at 5.30pm

at The Common Room

Upstairs at the Woolley Building

Science Road 

University of Sydney

it's free 

everyone is welcome to come along

 

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HOODWINKED - poem

My wife returns home from a short walk to our main street: ‘It’s like a festival day. People are out and about and drinking coffee and having cups of tea and chatting in the sunshine.’ We’re hanging out the sheets and I am wondering if the citizens are just hoodwinked – ‘There’s a bit of a breeze but it’s lovely’ - if the easy domestic life of this small Australian country town is blinded by comfort from the wars and strife of so many countries and the troubled peoples of the world.

- Andrew Burke

from The Centre for Stories, Perth

'Derrida's Breakfast' LAUNCH 28th May

'FITZROY' - Pi O's latest book

 

Exhaustive review of Fitzroy, the latest by Melbourne anarchist poet Pi O


http://www.sydneyreviewofbooks.com/fitzroy-the-biography-review-%CF%80-o/

SAVE MEANJIN - SUBSCRIBE NOW!

Help Save Meanjin
 

By now you will probably have heard the rather sobering news that Meanjin’s application for four-year funding from the Australia Council has been rejected.

This is serious.

Meanjin has enjoyed some measure of Commonwealth support since 1961, with contributions from the Australia Council since 1974.

Until this latest round of grants, Meanjin was considered one of the Australia Council’s key organisations. Under the new four-year funding regime, Meanjin had applied for an increase in its annual funding from $62,000 a year to $95,000. The numbers aren’t huge.

The search for new funding avenues continues. Meanjin enjoys the support of the University of Melbourne, and benefits greatly from its enduring association with Melbourne University Publishing.

All that said, the hard fact is that without a new source of funds, Meanjin’s 76^th year of publication may well be its last.

In the days since the Australia Council decision we have been heartened by the messages of encouragement from readers and supporters of Meanjin. Some have suggested that we embark on a crowdfunding program.

We agree.

Happily a crowdfunding model for Meanjin already exists: subscription.

A payment of $80 will help secure the future of this magazine, and it will also see the next four Meanjins delivered to you door.

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9 WAYS OF LOOKING

1)
someone thought it
another drew it before
the shuttle wove it

2)
light falls lighter
a wispy shadow
below the window

3)
never mind the quality;
feel the width

4)
when a petticoat showed
beneath a hem, Mother
would say, 'It's
snowing down south.'

5)
ten rosettes
to the square foot
in the yard

6)
breeze balloons
a pregnant lady in
her cheesecloth dress

7)
it is rigorous
and clanks across
its rows

cloth folds
rolled in
long cylinders

8)
trucks weave through
city traffic
to Textile Traders
where merchants
measure and despatch

9)
at the sight of
black lace on white breast
grown men and boys
quicken.

once, thirst gripped them;
now, hunger.

backyard haiku

mynah bird rests on
a disused solar panel -
sustainable energy

Publishing opportunity for poets at Uneven Floor

Uneven Floor publishes a poem or two most weeks, and needs more well-written poems from published and unpublished poets.

Previously published poems are welcome, as are poems in text, video, audio or image format.

Read the editorial, poems and submission guidelines at unevenfloorpoetry.blogspot.com.

Follow @unevenfloor_po on Twitter. Like facebook.com/unevenfloor. Please watch your step.

haiku

after last night's storm
white rose petals on
a flywire door

Poetry at the House, CANBERRA

Hello Poetry at the House supporters

 

There are about fifteen places left for the reading on this Wed May 11 at 8pm. It features Alan Wearne (from Wollongong) and Cassandra Atherton (from Melbourne and the U.S.) and should be a very lively night. Both poets are not short on humour. See details below. It will now  be in the Drawing Room (immediately on your right from the main entrance) not in the Scarth Room. You can still book by emailing me back at this address. You can also eat beforehand, of course, at the bistro.

All the best

Geoff

PS Please note three other events below which are also of interest.

Cassandra Atherton is currently a Harvard Visiting Scholar in English from 2015-2016. Cassandra has published eight books, including: Trace [with artist Phil Day] (2015) and Exhumed (2015). She is the current poetry editor of Westerly Magazine and is known for her extensive work in the prose poem form.

Alan Wearne's 2016 volume is These Things Are Real, which contains five verse narratives and a selection of satiric and 'light' verse: ‘The Sarsparilla Writers’ Centre’. He believes that without a strong input of narrative and satiric/'light' verse contemporary Australian poetry [let alone poetry in the English language] would simply collapse. He is also one of Australia's best known verse novelists. 

Admission: $10 waged, $5 unwaged. Meals are available in its Fellows Bar and Cafe from 6.30 pm. Reading starts at 8 pm.

Parking at University House is best from Garran Road and on Balmain Lane off Balmain Crescent.

poem - a lazy Sunday first draft

FLOTSOM

 

Our old dog scratches her nose

on the carpet — an asana –
this is her house more

than ever as the first heavy

rains of winter fall in late

autumn. We sit before the fire

two old lovers resting between

domestic chores. Passion is on

TV now, and the politicians are

playing their first quarter. A news

helicopter tracks the PM’s car

to Government House as

our old Cavoodle scratches on,

a giant hairy worm wriggling

on the faux Oriental rug, layers

of meaning washing up

like syntax on the high tideline.

 

UWAP DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD Now Open

 

 

 

Dorothy Hewett Award in Motion

 

Submissions are now open for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an  unpublished manuscript, a multi-genre award supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, which celebrates West Australian talent and provides  financial support to a writer furthering  their professional writing career.  

 

The winner will receive $10,000 and an offer of a publishing contract with UWA Publishing.  A highly commended writer will receive $1,000 and an offer of publication.  

 

Chosen by UWAP director Terri-Ann White, poet Lucy Dougan and critic James Ley, the winner will be  announced at the 2017 Perth Writers  Festival.  Entries close on August 1st. The shortlist will be announced on  November 30th.  For more information, guidelines and to enter, see http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/pages/the-dorothy-hewett-award-for-an-unpublished-manuscript

 

Follow UWAP on Facebook, Instagram  and Twitter (@uwapublishing) for updates

Jazz at The Gods - 7th June

SKIN poem

I start each day
putting skin on
this skeleton

then I walk out
into sunshine
or rain, watching
carefully for
nails and rose
thorns, loose
stones on old
steps, low slung
branches and
those metal balls
at the back of cars.

I only have
one skin which
I take off each
night as I drift
into dreams
where skin is
optional ...

Poetry Workshop with JULIE MACLEAN

Note from Secretary: Some detail added. Places filling fast so get bookings in! Maurice A. Geelong Writers Poetry Workshop With Julie Maclean   2.00-4.30 pm Sat May 21 Belmont Library, Geelong   ‘I want to think again of dangerous and noble things I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, As though I had wings’-Mary Oliver       Join award-winning poet Julie Maclean in this two-hour workshop to explore new ways of using language and unlocking hidden doors. Through short writing exercises and prompts be prepared to come away with one draft of a new work, maybe more.   Teacher of Creative Writing, public speaker and mentor, Julie lives on the Surf Coast. Shortlisted for the prestigious international Crashaw Prize (Salt, UK) and joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize (IDP, UK) she is the author of ‘When I Saw Jimi’ and ‘Kiss of the Viking’ Poetry Salzburg. A third collection,‘To Have to Follow’ is due in 2016. Her poetry is widely anthologised and appears in Southerly, Overland, Cordite Review, The Age, The Best Australian Poetry (UQP) and Poetry (Chicago). Bookings: geelongwriters@gmail.com Cost: $20 Cash payable on the day N.B. Limit !5 - First 15 to send e-mail booking will get in!