Longlines 2008 - e-anthology

The 2008 Longlines Fellows:

Ali Cobby-Eckermann
Helen Hagemann
Kimberley Mann
Andrew Slattery





What is Longlines?

In 2008, the Australian Poetry Centre, together with the Varuna Writers’ Centre, devised a fellowship for poets who lived more than 100 kilometers outside Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Canberra. Four Fellows were invited to spend a week at Varuna workshopping their poetry with Ron Pretty. The manuscripts were then published in a series which effectively became a continuation of the Five Islands New Poets collections. The New Poets Series 2009, comprises:

little bit long time by Ali Cobby Eckermann

Evangelyne & other poems by Helen Hagemann

Awake During Anaesthetic by Kimberley Mann

Canyon by Andrew Slattery


In 2008, the Poets Union were considering the possibility of incorporating a regional fellowship into the Australian Poetry Festival. When we learnt that the APC and Varuna had already compiled such a program, we thought that the most useful (and efficient) thing we could do was to complement the Varuna workshops with a small number of Sydney events. The Fellows were invited to read at the Friend-in-Hand, to meet some locals at Anna Kerdijk-Nicholson’s, and to attend a day of extra workshops facilitated by Charlotte Clutterbuck, Martin Langford and Jutta Sieverding.

The-anthology is now up on the Poets Union website at www.poetsunion.com and represents a brief selection of their work.

Helen Hagemann

Helen Hagemann’s poetry & prose have been published in literary journals, including Overland, Westerly and Island.

Harnessing the Horse
Life on the Stairs
Ball Doyen(ne)



Ali Cobby Eckermann

After 25 years Ali Cobby Eckermann relocated to the ‘intervention free’ village of Koolunga SA. She is restoring the 130 year old General Store. ‘Intervention Pay Back’ was written in central Australia and won the NT Red Earth Poetry Award 2008.

I Tell You True
Kumana

Table Manners



Kimberley Mann
Kimberley Mann grew up in Alice Springs. She has published 50 poems, one libretto, two plays and a short story. She has co-edited two books; Blue, for Friendly St. Poetry and Painted Words, an Anthology of Short Stories. She works as a therapeutic counsellor and and reviews for the Adelaide Fringe

under water
Out of Africa
Terimbula




Andrew Slattery
Andrew Slattery’s poetry has been published in Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia. His prizes include The Roland Robinson, Henry Kendall and Val Vallis Literay Awards. Canyon is his first collection of poetry.

Memorandum

Slatterys Wake

The Obama Urbanelle


To read the poems in the e-anthology please visit the Poets Union website at www.poetsunion.com