Saturday, July 23, 2016
Friday, July 22, 2016
Call for Poetry Submissions
ANTHOLOGY – “TO END ALL WARS”.
This is a call for poems for a project that will bring Australasian poets together responding to the centennial commemoration of the war and its end.
The editors are interested in reflections on the disaster that the war was and how the world was shaped going forwards.
Editors are Dael Allison, Anna Couani, Kit Kelen & Les Wicks. Anticipated publication date 2018. This is a refocused project following “After Gallipoli”.
Publisher TBA. is being sought. Prior publication fine but please include acknowledgement of prior appearance. Send poems (maximum 2) to meusepress@hotmail.com by September 23, 2016.
This is a call for poems for a project that will bring Australasian poets together responding to the centennial commemoration of the war and its end.
The editors are interested in reflections on the disaster that the war was and how the world was shaped going forwards.
Editors are Dael Allison, Anna Couani, Kit Kelen & Les Wicks. Anticipated publication date 2018. This is a refocused project following “After Gallipoli”.
Publisher TBA. is being sought. Prior publication fine but please include acknowledgement of prior appearance. Send poems (maximum 2) to meusepress@hotmail.com by September 23, 2016.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Poem by WALLACE STEVENS
Sonnet
Wallace Stevens
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Calls for submissions for the New Shoots Poetry Prizes
by Zalehah Turner |
Calls for submissions for the New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016 and the New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016
We want your plant inspired poetry!
The Red Room Company, Rochford Street Review and Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney call for submissions for the New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016 and the New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016. All poems must be previously unpublished, no more than 100 lines in length or 3-5 minutes of audio or video media and on the theme of plants. Poems to be considered for the New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016 must relate specifically to plants in the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Submissions to either prize must include the full name of the poetry prize in the subject line of the email or in capitals on the top of the cover letter, if applying by post. All submissions must be received no later than, 12pm 31 October 2016.
One winner and one Highly Commended poem will be chosen for each prize. The winners and the Highly Commended poems, in both categories, will be published online in issue 20 of Rochford Street Review and on The Red Room Company website. All submissions will be published on the New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney website*.
As well as publication, the winners will receive a Corban & Blair Fernery journal and a poetry anthology from Puncher and Wattmann. The Highly Commended poets will also receive a Red Room Company Unlocked anthology of poems and New Shoots seed pack.
The Red Room Company and Rochford Street Review encourage a diversity of voices, expression and poetic forms. We welcome all poets, emerging, established or just beginning a poetic journey and poems in any medium. However, while we encourage an open format, the submission must be considered to be poetry by the judges and the judges retain the right to disqualify a poem if it does not meet this criteria.
Selection panel: Dr Tamryn Bennet, Director of The Red Room Company and Zalehah Turner, Associate Editor of Rochford Street Review
Plant a seed of inspiration in your mind’s eye and let it grow into a poem
Winners to be announced 1 December 2016 and will be notified by email or post where an email has not been provided.
The New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016 is committed to encouraging entrants inspired by plants throughout Australia. However, The Red Room Company and Rochford Street Review would also like to encourage poets inspired by plants in the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. No preference is given to either theme or prize.
If you have already submitted plant inspired poems to The Red Room Company and wish them to be considered for either prize please email contact@redroomcompany.org
* poems for the RBG must be suitable for a public site.
Submission Guidelines:
1. All poems must be on the theme of plants.
2. Only site specific poems relating to the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney will be considered for the New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016.
3. Entrants must be residents of Australia and 18 years or over at the time of submission.
4. The poem must be the entrant’s original work.
5. The poem must be unpublished and remain so until, 1 January 2017 after the winning poems have been published.
6. The poem must not exceed 100 lines in length if page poetry.
7. The poem must be 3 to 5mins if an audio or digital video recording.
8. Audio recordings of slam, performance or spoken word poetry must be MP3s.
9. Digital video recordings should be compressed in to a zip file and attached to an email. Use Drobox if necessary.
10. As the poems are to be judged anonymously, the poet’s name must NOT be written anywhere on the page or file containing the poem. However, all poems must be accompanied by a cover letter containing the poet’s name and current contact details.
11. The poem should be a Word document, in Times New Roman font, 12pt font size, single line spacing.
12. All poems to be considered for submission must have a cover letter with the name and contact details of the poet including, a phone number, an email address and a current postal address.
13. All submissions must also include a bio of 50 words and a photo of the poet.
14. All submitting poets are encouraged to take a photo of themselves surrounded or next to the plant or tree that inspired them. However, this is not an essential requirement for submission.
15. The subject line of the email or headline in the cover letter for postal submissions MUST include the name of prize the entrant wishes the poems to be considered for:
a) for GENERAL plant inspired poems, the subject line or heading MUST contain the words NEW SHOOTS POETRY PRIZE 2016 in capitals.
b) for site SPECIFIC Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney plant inspired poems, the subject line or heading MUST include the words: NEW SHOOTS ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN SYDNEY POETRY PRIZE 2016 in capitals.
16. Entrants can submit either by email with the name of the prize in the subject line addressed to contact@redroomcompany.org or by post addressed to
The Red Room Company,
PO Box 1105,
Surry Hills,
NSW 2010
17. Poets are allowed to submit up to three poems for either prize. Each poem must be attached as a separate document or file. DO NOT include all the poems in one document.
18. The judges’ decision is final.
19. Copyright will remain with the authors.
20. Submissions must be received by 12pm 31 October 2016 or post marked no later than, 19 October 2016.
As well as publication, the winners will receive a Corban & Blair Fernery journal and a poetry anthology from Puncher and Wattmann. The Highly Commended poets will also receive a Red Room Company Unlocked anthology of poems and New Shoots seed pack.
Selection panel: Dr Tamryn Bennet, Director of The Red Room Company and Zalehah Turner, Associate Editor of Rochford Street Review
Winners to be announced 1 December 2016 and will be notified by email or post where an email has not been provided.
If you have already submitted plant inspired poems to The Red Room Company and wish them to be considered for either prize please email contact@redroomcompany.org
* poems for the RBG must be suitable for a public site.
Submission Guidelines:
1. All poems must be on the theme of plants.
2. Only site specific poems relating to the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney will be considered for the New Shoots Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize 2016.
3. Entrants must be residents of Australia and 18 years or over at the time of submission.
4. The poem must be the entrant’s original work.
5. The poem must be unpublished and remain so until, 1 January 2017 after the winning poems have been published.
6. The poem must not exceed 100 lines in length if page poetry.
7. The poem must be 3 to 5mins if an audio or digital video recording.
8. Audio recordings of slam, performance or spoken word poetry must be MP3s.
9. Digital video recordings should be compressed in to a zip file and attached to an email. Use Drobox if necessary.
10. As the poems are to be judged anonymously, the poet’s name must NOT be written anywhere on the page or file containing the poem. However, all poems must be accompanied by a cover letter containing the poet’s name and current contact details.
11. The poem should be a Word document, in Times New Roman font, 12pt font size, single line spacing.
12. All poems to be considered for submission must have a cover letter with the name and contact details of the poet including, a phone number, an email address and a current postal address.
13. All submissions must also include a bio of 50 words and a photo of the poet.
14. All submitting poets are encouraged to take a photo of themselves surrounded or next to the plant or tree that inspired them. However, this is not an essential requirement for submission.
15. The subject line of the email or headline in the cover letter for postal submissions MUST include the name of prize the entrant wishes the poems to be considered for:
a) for GENERAL plant inspired poems, the subject line or heading MUST contain the words NEW SHOOTS POETRY PRIZE 2016 in capitals.
b) for site SPECIFIC Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney plant inspired poems, the subject line or heading MUST include the words: NEW SHOOTS ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN SYDNEY POETRY PRIZE 2016 in capitals.
16. Entrants can submit either by email with the name of the prize in the subject line addressed to contact@redroomcompany.org or by post addressed to
The Red Room Company,
PO Box 1105,
Surry Hills,
NSW 2010
17. Poets are allowed to submit up to three poems for either prize. Each poem must be attached as a separate document or file. DO NOT include all the poems in one document.
18. The judges’ decision is final.
19. Copyright will remain with the authors.
20. Submissions must be received by 12pm 31 October 2016 or post marked no later than, 19 October 2016.
Thursday, July 07, 2016
from SOLAR CITIZENS: A photography competition
Hi there andrew
Did you know that enough sunlight falls on our planet in an hour to power the world for a year? Those amazing rays can help Australia move to 100% renewable electricity by 2030. They also make for a pretty picture!
'Capture the Sun 2030' is our new photography competition. We're inviting people all across Australia to snap the sun as it rises or sets and post their best shots on Instagram using the hashtag #capturethesun2030.
Help us share 'Capture The Sun 2030' far and wide across our sunburnt country.
You can share, like and follow the competition on our website, Facebook and Instagram. You can also of course enter!
The top ten most liked pics will be judged by a panel of professional photographers and the winner will ride away on a Fonzarelli electric scooter powered by Diamond Energy.
Solar Citizens has enlisted the awesome talents of Gretel Killeen and Jordan Shanks to star in a cheeky new video which you can click here to view.
Like and share to help us get the word out.
This celebration of the sun aims to shine a light on the power of our closest star and build momentum for solar energy in Australia.
So what are you waiting for? Get snapping and Capture the Sun!
Nell,
Project Manager
P.S. If you'd like to help us promote this exciting initiative in your local area, please contact me at nell@solarcitizens.org.au
Solar Citizenshttp://www.solarcitizens.org.
Did you know that enough sunlight falls on our planet in an hour to power the world for a year? Those amazing rays can help Australia move to 100% renewable electricity by 2030. They also make for a pretty picture!
'Capture the Sun 2030' is our new photography competition. We're inviting people all across Australia to snap the sun as it rises or sets and post their best shots on Instagram using the hashtag #capturethesun2030.
Help us share 'Capture The Sun 2030' far and wide across our sunburnt country.
You can share, like and follow the competition on our website, Facebook and Instagram. You can also of course enter!
The top ten most liked pics will be judged by a panel of professional photographers and the winner will ride away on a Fonzarelli electric scooter powered by Diamond Energy.
Solar Citizens has enlisted the awesome talents of Gretel Killeen and Jordan Shanks to star in a cheeky new video which you can click here to view.
Like and share to help us get the word out.
This celebration of the sun aims to shine a light on the power of our closest star and build momentum for solar energy in Australia.
So what are you waiting for? Get snapping and Capture the Sun!
Nell,
Project Manager
P.S. If you'd like to help us promote this exciting initiative in your local area, please contact me at nell@solarcitizens.org.au
Solar Citizenshttp://www.solarcitizens.org.
Sunday, July 03, 2016
Listen to GEOFFREY HILL Podcasts
http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/news-events/regular-events/professor-poetry/professor-sir-geoffrey-hill.html
The English Faculty is saddened to learn of the death of Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey studied English at Keble College, and went on to a distinguished career at Leeds, Cambridge, and Boston. Keble College elected him an Honorary Fellow; and he was, of course, for five years our Professor of Poetry, a role he fulfilled with immense charisma and brilliance. He was unquestionably one of the great poets and literary thinkers of his age, inimitable and irreplaceable: it was a privilege to have him a member of our Faculty.
Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill
The English Faculty is saddened to learn of the death of Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey studied English at Keble College, and went on to a distinguished career at Leeds, Cambridge, and Boston. Keble College elected him an Honorary Fellow; and he was, of course, for five years our Professor of Poetry, a role he fulfilled with immense charisma and brilliance. He was unquestionably one of the great poets and literary thinkers of his age, inimitable and irreplaceable: it was a privilege to have him a member of our Faculty.
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Nostalgia poem
1949 Happy New Year!
Salt Peanuts blasting on
the player as party whistles
join in, balloons bouncing.
I'm watching On The Road
again . The purity of
the road, I can almost smell
the old lead-based
gasoline. Pawning time
at a pit-stop - 'We've
gotta Go! Move!' I sit,
shivering with a cold,
fire burning late
in the grate and in me.
'Poor tragic Dean!'
Salt Peanuts blasting on
the player as party whistles
join in, balloons bouncing.
I'm watching On The Road
again . The purity of
the road, I can almost smell
the old lead-based
gasoline. Pawning time
at a pit-stop - 'We've
gotta Go! Move!' I sit,
shivering with a cold,
fire burning late
in the grate and in me.
'Poor tragic Dean!'
- Andrew Burke
Monday, June 27, 2016
Issa haiku
even in the well bucket
croaking all night...
a frog
- Issa 1803
.つるべにも一夜過ぎけりなく蛙
tsurube ni mo hito yo sugi keri naku kawazu
This haiku has the prescript, "Heaven, Wind, Coupling": a reference to Chinese divination, specifically to Hexagram 44 of the I Ching. When Heaven (Qian) is the upper trigram and Wind (Xun) is the lower, the resulting hexagram is Gou (Japanese = Kô), the sign for copulation or "coming to meet." Issa's geomantic joke is on the frog, singing his mating song all night, eager to copulate, yet without much chance of success inside the well bucket.
http://haikuguy.com/issa/
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
THE THIEF by Frederick Pollack
The philosopher, as philosophers should,
sits in the light from a leaded window.
His robe and beard are long and clean;
he writes on costly paper with a pen.
He is rigorously subtracting
God from all prior metaphysics
(the thick books piled before him on his desk)
to see what might be salvaged and made whole.
Without word-processing,
he must grind each sentence like a lens
or gem, fit it to those before, look far ahead
before he writes; the page allows no error.
He will work while the light and his eyes last,
gazing at times at hills
that are bare but green, with scattered trees.
Unbeknownst to him though suspected,
it is I he consults
to perfect each thought and I who cheer him on.
Across the fields the peasants stare
at the rear ends of oxen.
Men and women work together,
husbands sober, wives not beaten.
Stolen by neither priest nor lord,
their grain is kept for times of drought,
and doctors, teachers, engineers
stand ready for their need. So that
the dream of profit, which they always knew
was silly, fades into
a comfortable chronic bitterness,
the sort that keeps one going. It lives
with God, Who is mourned like a lost vendetta;
and a vision of tractors,
combines, which would let at least
the unnecessary young
leave for the safe, museum-laden,
somewhat monochrome cities.
The soldiers in their barracks hear,
besides the evening bugle,
at times a ghostly bell.
It strikes them as understandable,
for guns have melted
and they drill with wooden swords.
They drill for the sake of beauty,
the trope of unified will.
In fire, earthquake, hurricane, tsunami,
madly selfless, they are there,
and gather lists of mourners and survivors
to whom they write, for whom they henceforth care.
Their talk is, like their lives, austere,
abstemious. They’re grateful
for whatever love they find; they contemplate
their few possessions and the elegiac
void of the parade ground, which
they could leave at any time, but to go where?
Before the eyes of the philosopher,
an ethics rises. (I direct his gaze.)
Syncretic, existentialist, it reduces
consciousness to acts of choice and won’t
exactly correspond
to any living moment; which may, he considers,
not be a major argument against it.
An especially coherent flight
of birds circles
one of the distant trees. Letters come;
he disregards them. Somewhere beyond
his study, a phone rings, but since
there are no phones, stops.
He recalls the ancient riddle
about a thing the blind man saw, the deaf
man heard, the cripple ran away with; the answer
is a lie, but the philosopher wonders
if it might not be freedom.
- Frederick Pollack
Author of two book-length narrative poems, THE ADVENTURE and HAPPINESS (Story Line Press), and a collection, A POVERTY OF WORDS (Prolific Press). Another collection, LANDSCAPE WITH MUTANT, to be published in 2018 by Smokestack Books (UK). Many other poems in print and online journals. Adjunct professor creative writing George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Bronze Sculpture of Selfie-Snappers Stirs a Storm in Sugar Land
by on May 31, 2016 at HERE
It may very well be the first public sculpture that commemorates the act of taking a selfie. The Houston suburb of Sugar Land recently installed a bronze statue of two girls grinning as one raises her smartphone to snap a photograph as part of a 10-piece, citywide public art donation intended to “provide and/or support activities and facilities that enrich the artistic, cultural, educational, and historical character of Sugar Land.”
The pair isn’t posing at just any place, either, but in Sugar Land Town Square’s public plaza. They sorority squat slightly just a stone’s throw away from the steps of City Hall so the stately building serves as their backdrop. As per a municipal press release , the statue is meant to “show activities common in the plaza” — which gives you a good sense of how people apparently like to spend their time outdoors.
Nearby, city officials also installed another bronze sculpture of a guitar player sitting on the edge of a fountain.
The pair isn’t posing at just any place, either, but in Sugar Land Town Square’s public plaza. They sorority squat slightly just a stone’s throw away from the steps of City Hall so the stately building serves as their backdrop. As per a municipal press release , the statue is meant to “show activities common in the plaza” — which gives you a good sense of how people apparently like to spend their time outdoors.
Nearby, city officials also installed another bronze sculpture of a guitar player sitting on the edge of a fountain.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
The Poems of Basil Bunting
Thrilled to be able to announce the publication (publication-date is June 16 ) of a new edition of The Poems of Basil Bunting, lovingly and attentively edited by Poetry magazine editor, Don Share.
"This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources".
Share, "annotates Bunting's often complex and allusive verse", Faber and Faber, the publishers, note, "with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect."
Basil Bunting - it's his year - This year (as we've previously noted), 2016, marks the 50th anniversary of his masterly achievement "Briggflatts"
Tom Pickard's note on that, (published, earlier this year, in Poetry magazine, can be readily accessed - here)
Alex Niven, another of the Briggflatts-anniversary organizers, may be heard speaking on Bunting - here (that recording also includes an audio treat - Bunting reading the "Coda" from "Briggflatts" ("A strong song tows/us, long earsick.."))
Further recordings (a considerable number of further recordings) of Bunting may be listened to - here
Tom Pickard's note on that, (published, earlier this year, in Poetry magazine, can be readily accessed - here)
Alex Niven, another of the Briggflatts-anniversary organizers, may be heard speaking on Bunting - here (that recording also includes an audio treat - Bunting reading the "Coda" from "Briggflatts" ("A strong song tows/us, long earsick.."))
Further recordings (a considerable number of further recordings) of Bunting may be listened to - here
MORE HERE
Monday, June 06, 2016
PLOUGHSHARES Submit Now!
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Friday, June 03, 2016
Women in Jazz Workshops - in Australia
2016 YOUNG WOMEN's JAZZ WORKSHOPS
2016 Applications are Open!
It opened my eyes to jazz and really helped me expand my repertoire. Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity and experience and I can't wait to continue to explore jazz and all it has to offerIsabelle McConaghy, 2015 participant
NSW DOWNLOAD FORM
Sydney Conservatorium
23/07/2016 - 21/09/2016
Applications close June 10
Enquiries: admin@sima.org.au (02 9036 6292)
ACT - DOWNLOAD FORM
The Street Theatre23/07/2016 - 18/09/2016
Applications close June 10
Enquiries: admin@sima.org.au (02 9036 6292)
WA - DOWNLOAD FORM
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts20/08/2016 - 30/10/2016
Applications close July 8
Enquiries: info@wayjo.org.au (08 9471 1950)
WA Youth Jazz Orchestra
This year we are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Canberra's Street Theatre to present the workshops in the ACT for the very first time under the talented guitarist and composer Jess Green!
The workshops will also take place in Sydney at the Conservatorium Open Academy and in Perth in partnership with the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
As the workshops continue to go from strength to strength, our goal remains the same. To create more opportunities for women in the genre of jazz. With the support of our media partner, ABC Jazz, we look forward to joining forces with our national partners in an exciting year ahead.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS:
A short course aimed at women who are interested in pursuing jazz and improvised music, the Young Women’s Jazz Workshops have been changing the face of Australian jazz since 2002.Developed by Dr. Sandy Evans OAM and the Sydney Improvised Music Association to develop skills and confidence in improvised music, this pioneering program has had a direct impact on the number of women studying jazz at conservatoria across the country.
The course offers exclusive opportunities for participants including ongoing performance and touring prospects.Participants also create new friendships and networks with like-minded people.
Our course tutors are sought-after educators and in-demand musicians. The course includes masterclasses with leading practitioners in the field. We cater to all skill levels. Entry is by written application and audition. Classes run on Saturdays over eight weeks and culminate in a public concert.
In 2016, the workshops will be held in three States for the first time. This could be a life changing experience, so don’t hesitate in applying today!
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Myron Lysenko at THE DAN June 4th
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Southerly is looking for an Administrator
Southerly is seeking the services of an Administrator for 5 months from September 2016. This role involves between ten to fourteen hours per week. Specific duties include:
- Correspondence with all editors, contributors, agencies, and general public, both email and postal;
- Maintenance of the subscription list;
- All banking and financial transactions, including processing all sales and subscriptions, payment of authors, collating and preparing material for the financial auditor, quarterly reconciliations with other literary journals, monthly statement audits;
- Online and technical management, including posting blogs and other announcements on the website and on Facebook and Twitter, website maintenance, maintenance of the online store;
- Submissions maintenance, including corresponding with potential authors regarding submissions as queries arise and checking the online submissions system;
- Assisting the editors prepare grant applications and acquittals;
- Preparing audits for the Australia Council on each published issue;
- Organisation of the issue mail out;
- Preparing reports on Southerly’s activities for the quarterly board meetings of the English Association.
- Filing
The position will involve one day of paid training.
Please send a brief CV and a covering letter outlining your ability to take on these tasks by 31 May 2016 to admin [at] southerlyjournal.com.au. Please use the subject heading Southerly admin role.
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