Mitchell Johnson claims top ICC awards

Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has won the top ICC awards for 2013-14, being named the Cricketer of the Year, as well as Test Cricketer of the Year.

South Africa's AB de Villiers was named ODI Cricketer of the Year, while Australia's Aaron Finch won the T20 performance award for his 156 off 63 against England at the Rose Bowl in August.

England's Gary Ballance was named Emerging Cricketer of the Year, while Sarah Taylor was named the Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year and Meg Lanning, the Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year.

Scotland's Preston Mommsen got the Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year award, and umpireRichard Kettleborough was named Umpire of the Year.

Read more HERE

Creative Adult

Beth Spencer, Beth Yahp and Jessica Kirkness - the challenges and pleasures of writing memoirs

Memoir Club Lunchtime Panel at the Randwick Literary Institute's Annual Arts Festival 2014

When: Sunday, 16 November 2014, 1.00 - 3.00 PM

The Randwick Literary Institute,
60 Clovelly Road, Randwick 2031
RSVP: MemoirClubSydney@gmail.com 

The Memoir Club is honoured to be part of the Randwick Literary Institute's Annual Arts Festival in 2014 with this special event. 

Do come and join in the conversation as these three writers discuss the challenges and pleasures of writing their "work of memory", read from their memoirs and present practical advice for other writers who are engaged in the same process to get started or keep going, including a writing exercise or two.  There will also be an "open reading" section for members and guests who may like to share their work on the day (if you'd like to participate, do contact memoirclubsydney@gmail.com, as there are limited spots).

Beth Spencer’s verse memoir,Vagabondage, has just been released by the University of Western Australia Press; Beth Yahp’s travel-memoir, Eat First, Talk Lateris due to be published by Random House in 2015; and Jessica Kirkness has just completed her Masters of Research, which included a creative nonfiction work of memoir, titled A Symphony. 

Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine

Georg Trakl in 1910 – Source.

He doesn’t know whether his behaviour was unusual, he didn’t drink but took large amounts of cocaine.

This remark is taken from the medical file of Georg Trakl and is part of a brief account of the poet’s movements and behaviour in the month or so preceding his committal for observation to a psychiatric hospital in Kraków in early October 1914. Just six weeks earlier, towards the end of August, the 27-year-old Trakl had undertaken the 1000-kilometre train journey from Innsbruck, at the western end of the Habsburg Empire, to the far eastern crownland of Galicia, where he was to be deployed as a military pharmacist. His frontline experience was brief but traumatic. During the Battle of Grodek-Rawa Ruska of September 8-11, he was assigned sole care of ninety badly wounded soldiers sheltering in a barn, a task for which he had neither the training nor the equipment. As he later recounted from his hospital bed in Kraków to his friend and publisher Ludwig von Ficker, when one of the wounded men had ended his own suffering by shooting himself in the head, Trakl had fled outside only to be confronted by the sight of local peasants hanging lifeless in the trees. One evening during the westward retreat of the defeated Austro-Hungarian forces, he announced his own intention to shoot himself, but was forcefully disarmed by his comrades. His committal followed on October 6, and he died in hospital on November 3. His medical file lists the cause of death, complete with exclamation mark, as “Suicid durch Cocainintoxication!”

- See more at: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/29/wild-heart-turning-white-georg-trakl-and-cocaine/#sthash.xBcUIhca.dpuf

Launch of THE LIGHT PAINTERS at Katharine's Place

FREE SUNDOWNER! Poets and Friends, you are invited to the launch of 'The Light Painters', the new poetry collection by Poets at KSP.

Launch by Nandi Chinna at 4.30pm on Sunday 23rd November at The KSP Writers Centre, 11 Old York Rd, Greenmount. 

Drinks and finger food provided. Please RSVP 

Tel/Fax: +61 (08) 9294 1872 

Email: kspf@iinet.net.au

11 Old York Road, Greenmount, Western Australia, 6056.

A FREE LUNCH is Rare! Read on ...

Please join us for the launch of three books of environmental interest on Wednesday 19th November 2014, at the Mount Lawley campus of ECU, in Spectrum Gallery, building 3. Lunch will be served and books will be available for purchase and signing. Your invite is attached.

Professor Glen Phillip's two latest poetry collections will be launched. Tides & Groundwater will be launched by Professor Richard Nile of the University of Western Australia. 

Winged Seed Songs will be launched by Dr Jonathan Paget of the the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Dr John Ryan's latest monograph, Being With, will be launched by Western Australian author Annamaria Weldon. A short description of the book is below.

Please RSVP to glenlyp@bigpond.com and john.ryan@ecu.edu.au at your earliest convenience. 

We look forward to seeing you.

All the best

ICLL Staff

Being With develops an ecopoetics of the senses, grounded in place and offering a glimpse into more ethical and sustainable human relationships to other species. Located in the emerging field of the environmental humanities, this collection of essays focuses in particular on plants and fungi. Commonly regarded as passive objects, immobile things, or aesthetic landscape features, plants and fungi are integral not only to ecology but to culture and our future. The interdisciplinary work of sensory ecopoetics bridges the humanities–sciences split and allows poetics to become part of the fabric of everyday life and environmental awareness. Other beings can be encountered for their dynamism as creative agents in a meaningful world that is both natural and cultural—a world inclusive of other-than-human lives. In developing a unique perspective on ecopoetics, one which departs from literary definitions alone, Being With brings together diverse topics in the environmental humanities, including the seasons, heritage, aesthetics, and poetry. A bioregional understanding of place continuously informs the analysis, from the southwest corner of Western Australia, the Outback, and the African savannah to the American West and the Alaskan frontier. The author invites readers to consider the many cultural expressions of ecopoetics and their role in an ethical future.

http://onsustainability.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.197/prod.13

Larf

Wise words for today ...

Do you 

need more 

knowledge? Is 

more information 

going to save the world, 

or faster computers, more 

scientific or intellectual analysis? 

Is it not wisdom that humanity needs 

most at this time? But what is wisdom 

and where is it to be found? Wisdom 

comes with the ability to be still. 

Just look and just listen. No 

more is needed. Being still, 

looking, and listening 

activates the 

non-conceptual 

intelligence within. 

Let stillness direct your 

words and actions.

 Eckhart Tolle 

Wisdom 

is what's left 

after we've run 

out of personal 

opinions.

Cullen Hightower

                       

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Issa Haiku

summer kimono--
the rain kindly
washes it


.帷を雨が洗つてくれにけり
katabira wo ame ga aratte kure ni keri

Issa - 1815

The light summer garment in question is made of hemp:katabira. In this archive, I translate both katabira andawase as "summer kimono." In this haiku, Issa is most likely wearing the kimono while the rain "kindly" washes it.
http://haikuguy.com/issa/

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Fun and Games at VOICEBOX Fremantle

Stars At Daybreak: The Raptures of Galway Kinnell

Oh Galway has gone / but he will always be with me / words alive with his breath.

I hope this is as wonderful for you as it is for me.

'Net Needle' new collection by Robert Adamson

Net Needle

Robert Adamson

Publisher: Flood Editions

PubDate: 1/28/2015

ISBN: 9780990340713

Binding: PAPERBACK

Price: $15.95

Not Yet Available

Pages: 112

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Poetry. In The Times Literary Supplement, David Wheatley calls Robert Adamson "one of the finest Australian poets at work today." NET NEEDLE brings together the presiding influences of his life, early and late. He casts an affectionate eye on the Hawkesbury fishermen who "stitched their lives into my days," childhood escapades, lost literary comrades, the light and tides of the river, and the ambiance of his youth. Throughout, he is characteristically attuned to the natural world, sketching encounters both intimate and strange. These are poems of clear-eyed vision and mastery, borne of long experience, alert and at ease. As Michael Palmer observes, "Eye and ear, none better." 

Author City: SYDNEY AUS

Born in 1943, Robert Adamson is a celebrated Australian poet. He lives with his partner, photographer Juno Gemes, on the Hawkesbury River to the north of Sydney in Australia. Over the past five decades he has produced twenty books of poetry, including most recently NET NEEDLE (Flood Editions, 2015). He has been awarded the Christopher Brennan Prize for lifetime achievement, the Patrick White Award, and The Age Book of the Year Award for THE GOLDFINCHES OF BAGHDAD (Flood Editions, 2006). He currently holds the Chair in Poetry at the University of Technology, Sydney. 

Plumwood Mountain Volume Two - submissions open.

Submissions are now open for Plumwood Mountain vol 2 no 1 to appear in February 2015. Both general submissions and submissions on the theme “Otherkind” are being considered.

Alphonso Lingis writes: “Today we have become aware once again that we share this planet with innumerable other living things, whose voices summon our attention and must also direct our lives.” (“The Voices of Things”, Senses and Society 4, no. 3 (2009): 280).

Are these others stunned by/in the Anthropocene as we are, as Deborah Bird Rose proposes? Are others saying their goodbyes to us, as Martin Harrison suggests? (Martin Harrison and Deborah Bird Rose, “Postscript”, Text  20,
http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue20/Harrison&Rose_Postsc.pdf)

How might human saying be shaped by the summons of the multiple voices of otherkind?

Submissions close Saturday 15 November 2014.

See the submissions page for further details.

ISSUE #35 OF OTOLITHS IS NOW LIVE

issue thirty-five
southern spring, 2014

(untitled)
Andrew Topel & Koji Nagai

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Francesco Levato

Issue thirty-five of Otoliths, this year’s southern spring issue, has just gone live.

It contains, as usual, an astounding range of text & visuals from Bobbi Lurie, harry k stammer, Volodymyr Bilyk, Virginia Luck, Sarah James, Roger Mitchell, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Andrew Cantrell, Kyle Hemmings, Dennis Vannatta, Elizabeth Allen, Anders Enochsson, Marcia Arrieta, Seth Copeland, Craig Cotter, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Pete Spence, Jim Meirose, Philip Byron Oakes, Eric Hoffman, Raymond Farr, Richard Kostelanetz, Reed Altemus, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Diane Keys, John M. Bennett & Thomas M. Cassidy, Toby Fitch, Howie Good, Chris Brown, Jack Galmitz, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Marco Giovenale, Carey Scott Wilkerson, Edewede Oriwoh, Texas Fontanella, John Martone, Mark Russell, Andrew Topel, Andrew Topel & Koji Nagai, William Allegrezza, Márton Koppány, Márton Koppány & Tamarin Norwood, Mary Cresswell, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Cecelia Chapman, Connor Stratman, Heath Brougher, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Simon Perchik, John Lowther, Joe Milford, Willie Smith, Michael Ruby, Joe Balaz, sean burn, Jeff Harrison, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Sarah Edwards, Jeffrey Jullich, Anne-Marie JEANJEAN, bruno neiva, Ivars Balkits, Katrinka Moore, John Pursch, SS Prasad, John W. Sexton, Hazel Smith, Tony Beyer, Bob Heman, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Rosaire Appel, Angad Arora, Bogdan Puslenghea, Sabine Miller, Jake Goetz, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, Tony Page, Michael Brandonisio, J. D. Nelson, Shokla Shankar, & Gian Luigi Braggio.

In addition there is a special feature, a portfolio entitled [6 x 1] + [1 x 6] made up of a poem from Eileen R. Tabios with responses to it from John Bloomberg-Rissman, Sheila E. Murphy, lars palm, Marthe Reed, Leny M. Strobel, & Anne Gorrick.

&, as usual, enjoy the variety.

Mark Young

Congratulations to all the prizewinners in the 2014 Newcastle Poetry Prize

Joint winners: Debi Hamilton for 'Red Riding Hood Grows Old' Anthony Lawrence for 'Itinerary' 3rd Prize: Philip Radmall for 'The Difference of Distance' Local Winner: Steve Armstrong for 'Deadman' Harri Jones Memorial Prize Winner (for a poem by a poet under 35 years): Caitlin Maling for 'Border Crossing' Hunter Writers Centre Members' award: Kathryn Fry for 'Green Point Bearings' Commendeds: Jennifer Kornberger for 'The Twilight Observatory' and Lachlan Brown for 'Bracketing a Bursting House' In addition to the above, the 2014 anthology features the following poets and their poems: Vale, David Adès  David Adès Uluru  Lisa Brockwell The song of longing  Liana Joy Christensen Lampedo    Rico Craig Valour (Somme Sonnets)    Brett Dionysius Il Voce    Joe Dolce Rain Is Its Own Season   Diane Fahey Deposition   Christine Fontana Ned Kelly Dreaming   Hilary Gilmore States of Grace   Patrick Gleadhill Hell’s Bells   John Jenkins Lost Geographies   Jill Jones To the Picnic of Bears, a leg-up   Christopher Kelen Earlier  Rosanna Licari Houdini in Australia   David Lumsden At River Bend   Frances Olive The All Australian Girl  Ian Pettit Glass Letters   Felicity Plunkett Beethoven starts work on his great fugue Op.133  Derek Recsei L Loy D    John Scott Hex   Connor Strange Horizons   Alison Thompson Eloquent Assassin  Campbell Thomson Walking the Undoing  Anne Walsh Double Exposure    Chloe Wilson

Wangaratta Jazz & Blues 25th Anniversary on ABC Jazz

ABC Jazz has a packed radio schedule at Wangaratta 2014 with live broadcasts of Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Enrico Rava and the National Jazz Awards.

If you're unable to make it to the Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival this year, you can still catch the headline acts right here on ABC Jazz. We will be broadcasting three performances, direct from the stage to the radio. On Saturday, November 1, we will be airing Enrico Rava's Quintet live from the WPAC Theatre. That broadcast will begin at 11am eastern. Also on November 1 at 10:30pm eastern, you can catch the Jeff "Tain" Watts Quartet, again live from the WPAC Theatre.

As per tradition, Mal Stanley from Jazztrack will be presenting the National Jazz Awards on Sunday, November 2 from 5-7pm eastern on both ABC Jazz and Classic FM. The Sunday broadcast will feature the three guitar finalists for this year's National Jazz Awards.

We will also be recording a number of other acts for later broadcasts on Mal Stanley's Jazztrack.

2014 live broadcasts on ABC Jazz

Enrico Rava Quintet - Presented by Gerry Koster
11am - 12pm (AEDT): Saturday, November 1
Featuring Enrico Rava, Mirko Guerrini, Paul Grabowsky, Frank Di Sario and Niko Schauble

Jeff 'Tain' Watts Quartet - Presented by Gerry Koster
10:30pm - 11:30pm (AEDT): Saturday, November 1
Featuring Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Troy Roberts, Osmany Paredes and Chris Smith

National Jazz Awards Finals - Presented by Mal Stanley
5pm - 7pm (AEDT): Sunday, November 2

Hear ABC JazzIn Australia:  Digital TV (Channel 201), Online(abc.net.au/jazz), ABC Radio Mobile App, on Digital Radio (in Capital Cities)

Internationally: Online (abc.net.au/jazz)

Keep in touch with news and coverage from Wangaratta on the ABC Jazz Facebook and Twitterfeeds - updating all weekend.

Social Alternatives Journal Call for Poetry Submissions

Social Alternatives Journal

Social Alternatives Call for Submissions – Poetry

Social Alternatives is looking for submissions of poetry for its next issue. The theme of the issue is 'Revisiting the cosmopolitan ideal' and while you are free to interpret this any way you want I am also happy to consider work that is not obviously linked to the theme. In general I am looking for work up tot 25 lines – but if think you have great poem which is longer I'm happy to have a look but be aware it is more difficult to place longer pieces.

Submissions can be sent by email to Mark Roberts, Poetry Editor: robertsm@socialalternatives.com or mailed to (please include a SSAE) to:

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
The University of the Sunshine Coast,
Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia

La Mama's FREE Script Appraisal Service wants YOUR SCRIPT

For almost ten years La Mama has offered playwrights a free assessment service. We'll give detailed feedback on any play, regardless of the writer's level of experience. 

We understand it's no easy life or process writing for theatre, we seek to give an honest but constructive response, with the intention of assisting development of both the script and the writer's skills.

Currently, the assessor is Graham Downey.

All we require is your postal address and one copy of your script. We won't send assessments via email. We also won't normally return scripts, if you'd like a script returned, please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope. We're happy to receive scripts by email: info@lamama.com.au

We aim for a turnaround time of less than two months between our receiving your script and our mailing out an assessment. If you haven't received anything beyond two months please contact La Mama. Occasionally, pressure of work may impact turnaround time.

Our mailing address is: 

La Mama

205 Faraday Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Carlton, VIC 3053

Australia

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Poetry Brothels Rule!

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/28/poetry-brothel-putting-bawd-in-bard

[excerpt]

The house was packed at the most recent New York event on Sunday, and satellites have sprung up in Barcelona, Paris, London, Caracas and Auckland. Featured readers like Paul Muldoon (the New Yorker poetry editor and Pulitzer prize winner) and Deborah Landau (director of creative writing at NYU) have moonlighted as poetry whores, lending the enterprise legitimacy and gravitas.

For the likes of Muldoon and Landau, the poetry brothel is something fun and different for a few hours. But for the lesser-known poets, there is real creative and financial benefit to a receptive listener who can provide feedback and monetary compensation. Private readings cost $10 ($20 for a featured reader) and tipping is common; a poet can make a few hundred dollars on a lucrative night.


(Thanks, Max Richards)

Frank words

Poem - Sheila Murphy

A spindly and
transparent winter
parts from

lake
the color snow,
foreground

of sticks
alongside
evening's pale

sky parted
from shared
place.


- Sheila E. Murphy

TIM MINCHIN HONOURED WITH PLAQUE ON THEATRE WALK

Tim Minchin at the Theatre Walk, photo courtesy of Brett Hemmings

Tim Minchin the Australian musician, composer, songwriter, actor, comedian and writer, has been honoured with a bronze plaque on Arts NSW's Theatre Walk at Walsh Bay. 

Tim Minchin will join the 21 other theatre greats who have already been acknowledged through plaques set in bronze spotted around Pier 2/3, such as Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, John Bell AO OBE and Jack Weaver.

The Theatre Walk is a feature of the striking Walsh Bay Arts Precinct which accommodates the prestigious Sydney Theatre Company, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Dance Company

'Loose Change' open to your work now

CALL FOR WORK: LOOSE CHANGE MAGAZINE

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Michael Tod Edgerton

Loose Change, a journal of new writing from the WonderRoot Center for Arts and Social Change in Atlanta, is relaunching in January with work by Charles Alexander, Eric Baus, Pam Brown, Bhanu Kapil, Douglas A. Martin, Miranda Mellis, Simon Perchik, Deborah Poe, Joanna Ruocco, and Keith Waldrop, among others, and is still accepting submissions of previously unpublished work through November 15. 

We are especially interested in receiving more submissions of innovative prose and submissions in all categories (poetry, fiction, lyric essay, plays/libretti, and hybrid) for our special portfolio, “Sexted Up—Wording In—Gen(d)re Qweery,” to be included inside the general, non-themed issue.

We are interested in work that comes out of various traditions to move them forward, break them apart, reinvent or explode them. We want familiar modes made new and strange forms that renew us. Please review our submission guidelines before sending your work. We only accept electronic submissions through our submissions manager.

Loose Change on the Wor(l)d! Submit your challenging and ambitious best by November 15. http://www.loosechangemagazine.org