Poets Union e-news for poets from 24 March

Dear Poets Union Members and Friends,

1.Please note submissions for the 2010 Members’ Anthology are due on 21st April – The Members’ Anthology is printed to coincide with the Australian Poetry Festival 3rd – 5th September 2010. The fee is $25 per page – members, please download the entry/payment form from the website listed under ‘Competitions and Prizes’.

2. The website has enjoyed a massive upgrade including the posting of numerous members’ poems. Thank you to Marion Benjamin for the hours and expertise she has put into the Poets Union website: www.poetsunion.com and visit our blog: www.poetsunioninc.blogspot.com
Thanks to Marion Benjamin for all her work on the website.

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POETRY, EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND READINGS ALL OVER AUSTRALIA

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Sydney: North Sydney, Wed 24 March, Live poets @ Don Bank with guest poet Mark Tredinnick

Guest poet will be Mark Tredinnick - Blake and Newcastle Prize Winner MARK TREDINNICK will read from a wide selection of his work. + TATIANA BONCH will read her new work and present translations from Modern and Traditional Russian poets.
Live Poets @ Don Bank meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at Don Bank Museum (6 Napier Street, North Sydney) from February to November.
+ OPEN SECTION where anyone is welcome to recite, sing, tell a story or play an instrument.
Venue: Don Bank Museum,
Address: 6 Napier Street (off Berry Street), North Sydney.
Date: 24 March, 2010 (4th Wednesday of every month)
Time: Doors open 7.30 pm.
Cost: $7 entry includes supper and drinks.
Further info: Danny Gardner (02) 9896 6956. Mobile: 0422 263 373 - or at dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28th - LIVE POETS IS 20!
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In Sydney – launch of SOUTHERLY special poetry edition 25 March
Southerly invites you to the launch of 69.3, the Poetry Special Issue. This volume continues Southerly’s tradition of publishing and promoting the best in Australian literature, and with this launch, we wish to celebrate this issue's focus on poetry and poetics.

Venue: University of Sydney,
Address: Common Room, John Woolley Building
Time: from 6 - 8pm
Date: Thursday March 25th.
Please RSVP to southerlyjournal@gmail.com by Monday March 22nd, for catering purposes
Please find a map of Sydney University here:
http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?location=12E

We look forward to seeing you there.
Kind Regards,
Tessa Lunney
on behalf of the Editors
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Tessa Lunney
Editorial Assistant, Southerly
Department of English
University of Sydney NSW 2006
Ph: +61 2 9351 5398
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In Goulburn 'Take Time to Write’ a writing workshop with poet LIZZ MURPY
TIME TO WRITE - Goulburn Library - Saturday March 27, 10 am-3.30 pm

Always wanted to write? Need a refresher? Take Time to Write - Take a Walk with Words
Lizz Murphy lives in Binalong and has published ten books including five poetry collections, and five literary or community anthologies. In 2006 and 2007 she travelled to Calcutta as part of an Australia-India Poetry Exchange. She has facilitated writing workshops from Nowra to Nhulunbuy. She is looking forward to working with writers from the Goulburn region again.
Date: Saturday March 27
Time: 10.00 am-3.30 pm
Venue: Goulburn Library Civic Centre
Address: Bourke Street, Goulburn
Cost: $25/$15 unwaged, members of ACTWC or Miles

Published writer Lizz Murphy invites you to take a walk with words. A walk through memory or imagination, a walk through town or around a corner shop, a walk by the river, a walk through your own day … Turn your walks into poems or prose pieces. Add detail, develop your characters, pick up your step, pick up the pieces... Go for a real walk (just a short one, weather permitting). You never know what you might find. Exercises to get you thinking, remembering, imagining, writing. Tips on writing challenges. Whether you are an aspiring writer or an old hand take TIME TO WRITE.
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Perth Poetry Club: Saturday 27 March, 2-4 pm with guest poet Trev Astle
Guest poet this Saturday 27 March Perth Poetry Club: 27 Mar: TREV ASTLE
27 Mar: TREV ASTLE (ACT) + local talent TBA

COMING UP AT PERTH POETRY CLUB
3 Apr: ELIO NOVELLO
10 Apr: BLACK RIDER PRESS: Jeremy Balius & his lit cats
17 Apr: MAUREEN SEXTON + TBA
24 Apr: Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2009: FAWWA presents the 9 WA winners
1 May: KAY CAIRNS + TBA
+ Plus open mike. Professional sound. Come listen and hang out with poetry lovers in the comfy back room of The Moon http://www.themoon.com.au/
Address: The Moon Café, 323 William Street, Northbridge.More info (yes, more!) : http://www.perthpoetryclub.com
Enquiries: Email: perthpoetryclub@gmail.com Phone: Janet 0406 624 578
Have you seen our Perth Poetry Links ?
Readings, groups, poets, journals, publishers... WA poetry.

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Sydney: Brett Whiteley Studio Reading with guest poet,Kim Garcia on Sunday 28 March

2010 on the 4th Sunday of every month - The Poets Union monthly poetry reading.
Date: Sunday 28th February
Time: 2.00 – 3.30 pm FREE entry
Venue: Brett Whiteley Studio
Address: Raper Street, (off Devonshire Street and Esther Lane)
Surry Hills
Convenor: Angela Stretch for Poets Union Inc.
Enquiries for 2010: 0438 898 578

Sunday 28 March 2010 – guest poet will be Kim Garcia
Kim Garcia’s poetry collection Madonna Magdalene was published by Turning Point Books in the fall of 2006. Her work has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, Subtropics and Birmingham Poetry Review, among others, and has been aired on Writer’s Almanac.
She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship, an Oregon Individual Artist Grant, and the 2009 X.J. Kennedy Award. A graduate of Reed College and the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, she teaches creative writing at Boston College.

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Sydney: Newtown, RhiZomic poetry party and reading 31 March – guest poet Judith Beveridge
RhiZomiC Poetry is proud to present our: guest poet Judith Beveridge.
Date: Wednesday 31 March, 2010 (the last Wednesday of every month)
Time: 7-9 PM
Venue: Kerrie Lowe Gallery
Address: 49 King St. Newtown
RhiZomic Poetry Reading is held on the last Wednesday of every month (sometimes the 4th Wed - this time the 5th!). RhiZomic features new and established poets and offers everyone the opportunity to share their own poetry at an open-mic. RhiZomic is a Poetry Party and Open-mic.

About Judith Beveridge...Judith Beveridge is one of Australia's most highly regarded poets, the author of three award-winning books of poetry, 'The Domesticity of Giraffes', 'Accidental Grace' and 'Wolf Notes' (Giramondo, 2003), which won both the Victoria Premier's Award for Poetry and the Queensland Premier's Judith Wright Calanthe Poetry Prize. Her poems are widely studied in schools and universities. Judith Beveridge teaches creative writing at the University of Sydney, and is the poetry editor of Meanjin. In 2005 she was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature. Judith Beveridge's latest collection 'Storm and Honey' was launched recently at Gleebooks in Sydney by poet Mark Tredinnik. Judith Beveridge's audio CD of poems 'Cut With Stars' is available from River Road Press.
KERRIE LOWE GALLERY 49 King St, Newtown NSW 2042 P 9550 4433 / F 9550 1996
E lowekerrie@gmail.com W www.kerrielowe.com Mon - Sat 10 am - 5 pm

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In Newcastle – 30 March: Youth Creative Writing Workshops for 10-14 year olds + FULL DAY WORKSHOP IN THE EASTER HOLIDAYS Tuesdays – next workshop 30 March 2010 + a full day workshop in the Easter holidays
The HWC are running an after-school creative writing club for young people aged 10-14. All budding young writers are welcome on Tuesday afternoons from 3.30 – 5.30pm so they can learn about character, narrative, clarity of writing, poetry and language from the HWC’s director Brian Joyce. The workshops start Tuesday 2nd March and will run for 5 weeks, culminating in a full day workshop in the Easter holidays. The full package costs $150 for 5 weeks and the workshop, or it’s $20 a class and $50 for the workshop. Brian has years of experience running workshops for kids so this is a great opportunity. Call the HWC on 49263485 to book. In term two we’ll be running youth writing workshops for 15-18-year-olds, so if you know anyone who’s interested, let us know!
What is it? Creative Writing Workshops
How old do I have to be? Aged 10-14
Where are they? At the Hunter Writers Centre, 90 Hunter Street Newcastle
How much are they? $20 a workshop, $50 for the full day or $150 for the whole term.
How do I sign up? Email hwcadmin@optusnet.net.au or call the HWC on 49263485.

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In Berrima POETRY ON A PLATE 23rd April with Robert Gray at the Bluemetal Vineyard
In Berrima Friday 23rd April – POETRY ON A PLATE hosted by Robert Gray.Acclaimed Australian Poet Robert Gray, is to host the next in the successful series of Bluemetal Vineyard's Poetry on a Plate, on Friday 23rd April 2010. Robert will read from a selection of his works over a relaxing lunch at Bluemetal Café starting at 12pm until around 2.30pm.

This is a wonderful opportunity to relax and listen to poetry within a beautiful vineyard setting. You will enjoy a delicious local produce Jackaroo's Plate, complete with tea, coffee and dessert treats for $40.00 per person. The Cellar Door is open for wine tastings and sales before lunch and throughout the afternoon. The atmosphere is casual and friendly and there is the opportunity for discussion afterwards with Robert, along with Mark Treddinick who mediates the luncheon.

Robert Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and trained there as a journalist. He then worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer and buyer for bookshops and his first book of poems, Creekwater Journal, was published in 1973.
Gray was a writer-in-residence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several universities throughout Australia. He has also won many writing and poetry awards including:
- The Adelaide Arts Festival
- The New South Wales Premiers' Awards
- The Victorian Premiers' Awards
- The Patrick White Award
With Geoffrey Lehmann, he edited two anthologies, The Younger Australian Poets and Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century. He edited Selected Poems by Shaw Neilson and Drawn from Life, the journals of painter John Olsen. After Images is his latest release and much anticipated memoirs, The Land I Came Through Last.

Cost: Poetry on a Plate is $40.00 per person and places are limited.
RSVP: 22nd April. Bookings are essential Tel: 02) 4877 1877 or
Email: cellar@bluemetalvineyard.com
Media Contact: Louise Horsley - Ph: 0438 377727
wine@bluemetalvineyard.com www.bluemetalvineyard.com
Bluemetal Vineyard is located in the beautiful NSW Southern Highlands region and produces premium single estate, award winning wines including Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Fumé Blanc, Sangiovese Rosé, Petit Verdot, and The Cabernets.
The Cellar Door and Cafe is open Thursdays to Mondays from 10am to 5pm.
Bluemetal Vineyard and Cafe - 112 Compton Park Rd, Berrima, NSW Ph: (02) 4877 1877

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Goolwa Festival – South Australia April 23-26, 2010
In Adelaide, South Australia: Goolwa Festival SALT ON THE TONGUE April 23-26, 2010

National Poetry Festival in Goolwa, South Australia between April 23-26 (Friday-Monday inclusive)
The Australian Poetry Festival is hosting the Goolwa Poetry Festival- Salt On The Tongue in Adelaide.

Date: Taking place on the 23-26th April 2010.
The festival will be opened by Chef Stefano de Pieri and will feature international poets: Robert Minhinnick (To Babel and Back), Arianna Pozzuoli, Elizabeth Smither (The Sea Between Us), Glenn Colquhoun (North South) and Australia's own poetry icon Emma Jones (The Striped World).

Media contact: Paul Kooperman (Festival Director - for interview times with festival organiser or poets, please contact)
Email : paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au
Tel. (03) 9094 7827


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COMPETITIONS AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES
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Submissions invited – KATIKATI HAIKU CONTEST 2010 due 16 April
An open theme haiku contest with proceeds going to the Haiku Pathway project. Thanks to Katikati Advertiser for sponsoring the bulk of the cash prizes - 18 & over: $NZ100 for first; $NZ50 for second Haikus entered should preferably be typewritten, otherwise clearly handwritten; previously unpublished (including on the web or broadcast).
Submit 2 copies of each haiku with 1 only including your name, address, phone number (no mobiles, please), e-mail address, and for the junior section only, your age. Putting several poems on an A4 sheet is fine.
Entry fee: Within NZ: 18 & over $5 for 3 haiku or $2 for 1 haiku. 17 & under $1 for up to 2 haiku. For overseas entrants: $US5/3 haiku or $US2/haiku. Post entries to: Katikati Haiku Contest, PO Box 183, Katikati 3166, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Results will be announced and presented on Sunday, June 6.
A judge’s report will be sent by email, otherwise please include a stamped addressed envelope.
E: nzhaiku@gmail.com

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Submissions invited from PU Members and due 21st April for the 2010 Poets Union Members’ Anthology
Poets Union Anthology 2010
Call for submission of poems
1 Members of the Poets Union are invited to submit a poem for publication in this year’s Anthology, which is due to be launched at the 2010 Australian Poetry Festival in September. For years now, a popular member activity has been to be published in the Anthology. Recent ones have been Prismatics (2008), Sun and Sleet (2006), Ask the Rain (2004), From the Annabranch (2002) and No River is Safe (2000).

2 To be in the new collection, send us a hard copy of your poem and payment of $25 per page of single-space Times New Roman 12-point typing in PC Microsoft Word 2003 (not 2007. If necessary, when using 2007 save the file into 2003) or Microsoft Word 2004 for Apple. Do not send it in pdf. You may submit more than one poem , but payment needs to be made at $25 per page. Make your cheque or money order out to Poets Union Inc.

3 In addition to hard copy, please send your poem if possible as an Attachment in an email with Subject: Poets Union 2010 Anthology. Please also provide a mail address and a phone number so we can check details where necessary. Send your email to info@poetsunion.com

4 Please supply a four-line biography, concentrating on your life in poetry, to be published in the Anthology.
5 Your poem may be a new one, never before published, or it may be prepublished.
6 If your poem has previously been published, you need to provide us with an acknowledgement, including reference details of where it was published, year, volume number, and page numbers.
7 Type your name on the poem sheet, the poem title, and the poem in single column format.
8 Please name electronic files with your surname and one key word of the poem title.

9 Please mark your envelope Anthology, Poets Union, PO Box 755, Potts Point NSW 1335 and make your cheque or money order out to Poets Union Inc. at $25 per page
All poets featured in the Anthology will be entitled to a copy.

10 Closing date to submit your poem is 21 April 2010. Please download the entry/payyment form from the website www.poetsunion.com under Competitions and Prizes on the left hand side of the home page.
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Submissions invited – 2010 BUSH LANTERN AWARD FOR BUSH VERSE due 21 May
Fancy yourself as the reincarnation of Henry Lawson or Banjo Patterson? Bush verse to 100 lines showing good rhyme and rhythm, and Australian theme. First prize $200. Entry $8. This year the club has also decided to run a written competition for Primary & Secondary school children.
Entry forms for both competitions from NTWC or email the competition contact (see below). E: lees@fastel.com.au
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Submissions invited – 2010 PRESSPRESS CHAPBOOK AWARD (POETRY) due 31 May
The PressPress Chapbook Award is for an original manuscript of poetry between 20-40pp. The winning manuscript will receive $600 and chapbook publication with PressPress. The Award will be announced in July 2010 on the PressPress site.
The manuscript must be unpublished and not on offer to another publisher in Australia or elsewhere (except that individual poems can be already taken or on offer to journals, sites or anthologies where you keep the copyright).
Have a look at the website to see what sort of thing we've done in the past and what the judges said last year.
Entry conditions and form from the website.
W: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~writerslink/PressPress/PressPress_Award_conditions.html

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Applications are invited and due 29 June for the Poets Union 2010 Youth Fellowships
The Poets Union, in conjunction with the Australian Poetry Centre, is pleased to announce the return of these outstanding Fellowships, offering one Young Poets Fellowship in 2010 for a poet between the ages of 19 and 30.

The Fellows will receive:

1. A mentorship with an experienced poet – the choice to be made
in consultation with the incoming Fellow.
2. The publication and launch of a chapbook.
3. Publication on the Poetry Australia website.
4. The opportunity to present work at a Poetry Australia reading.

Some money may be available for assistance with travel costs, where necessary.
In return, fellows are asked to write one review-article on the work of a poet of their choice for publication in a Poetry Australia outlet, as a way of encouraging poets to contribute towards the critical discourse in Australian verse.

The purpose of the Fellowship is to enable an outstanding young poet to further develop his or her skills with input from an experienced mentor, and to provide opportunities for publication at the beginning of their careers. It is designed for young poets who have already made significant progress in the development of their writing, but who have yet to make the final steps towards full publication.

Previous winners and mentors are:

2002 Elizabeth Campbell (Vic) – Martin Langford
James Stuart (NSW) – Brook Emery

2004 Amanda Lucas (NSW) – Judith Beveridge
Simon West (Vic) – Chris Wallace-Crabbe

2005 Lucy Holt (Vic) – Jordie Albiston Stories of Bird
Luis González Serrano (ACT) – Kevin Brophy
Cities with moveable parts

2006 Esther Ottaway (Tas) – Lyn Reeves Blood Universe
Claire Potter (WA) – Kevin Hart in Front of a Comma

2007 Ivy Ireland (NSW) – joanne burns Incidental Complications
Nick Powell (Vic) – Jennifer Harrison of Fallen Myth*


* Name of Fellow followed by mentor, and, after 2005, title of chapbook.

Closing Date for applications is 29th June, 2010. The Fellow will be notified in August, and the announcement made public at the Australian Poetry Festival (Sep 3/4/5). In most cases, mentorships will continue into 2011. See the Poets Union website for more details and an entry form
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Submissions invited: THE REASON-BRISBANE POETRY PRIZE - due 2 JULY
Reason-Brisbane Poetry Prize - Closing date: 2 July
This is the competition's seventh year and in 2010 it is open to budding and established writers across Australia. Open theme. Prizes: 1st $1500, 2nd $500, 3rd $300. Ross Gillett, multi-award winning poet, will judge the entries and winners will be announced at the morning poetry event of Words in Winter, Daylesford on 14 August. For guidelines, see or send a SSAE to Rules, PO Box 545, Daylesford, VIC 3460.
Sheila Hollingworth, Competition Organiser

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Expressions of interest now open and invited for QLD Poetry Festival to be run from 27-29 August 2010

The Queensland Poetry Festival invites proposals from poets and other performers and artists interested in being part of the 14th annual festival in 2010. QPF 2010 runs from 27-29 August and will be held at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane.
QPF would like to hear from both individuals and groups for performances at the festival and for other projects in association with the festival. While all projects should have a relationship to poetic language, we encourage applications from artists wishing to explore the relationship between poetry and other art forms. An expression of interest form is now available for download from www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com. For further information please email info@queenslandpoetryfestival.com Graham Nunn - Chair, QLD Poetry Festival

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Submissions invited for 2010 Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize
Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize - Entries are invited for the 2010 Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize.
The Prize is awarded every two years by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for the best first book of poetry published by an Australian in the preceding two years – in this case the calendar years 2008 and 2009.
This is a prestigious poetry prize which has helped the careers of many now well-known poets, including Jan Owen, Judith Beveridge, Alison Croggon, Lucy Dougan, and David McCooey; the prize also draws attention to their publishers. ASAL will meet the cost of the winning poet attending and providing a reading of his or her work at its conference to be held in early July 2010.
Eligible publishers or poets are asked to submit three copies of each eligible book to:
Dennis Haskell, English & Cultural Studies (M202), University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, CRAWLEY WA 6009
Any queries about the prize can be sent to Dennis Haskell at the above address or dhaskell@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
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Submissions invited to Mascara Literary Review

Mascara Poetry has recently expanded into Mascara Literary Review and is now accepting submissions of short fiction and essays (as well as poetry).
We also have a new website: www.mascarareview.com .
Mascara Literary Review is an online literary journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian (as well as Australian and Indigenous) writers.
We are able to pay: $75 for two or more poems, $50 for reviews and essays.
For full submission details visit: www.mascarareview.com/submissions.html .
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Call for submissions to Islet - a new on-line magazine from Island

Islet: a free online journal of micro works from emerging writers and visual artists. An initiative developed and supported by Island magazine. Call for submissions. Islet is a new online companion to Island magazine's existing print journal, and will publish a free quarterly collection of works by emerging writers and visual artists. Islet accepts poetry, fiction, and reviews, with size the only limitation: we are committed to publishing small works.
Maximum lengths: poetry -- 25 lines; fiction -- 600 words; reviews -- 400 words. Our pay rates are $50 per poem and $75 per prose work (fiction or review). For submissions or more information, contact the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au . Until the website is live, detailed submission guidelines will be temporarily available, from the end of October, at http://www.islandmag.com

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Call for submissions to Cordite Poetry Review
Submissions now open for Cordite Poetry Review. Writing haikus, snryus or other ultra-short poems?
Submissions are now open for the 31st issue of Cordite – EPIC.
Details available at www.cordite.org.au

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Call for submissions to Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
The Margaret Reid Poetry Contest re-opened on November 15!
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Submissions invited for Jazz and Poetry section of annotated discography on jazz and literature - from PU member Peter JF Newton
I am nearing completion of the jazz & poetry section of a three-part annotated discography on jazz & literature which I expect to publish next year. The scope of this section includes recitation accompanied by jazz in any of its many varieties, poems converted to jazz vocal performances and instrumental compositions inspired by the work of individual poets. The emphasis here is on poetry with jazz and improv music as I know them; I have no wish to stray into the world of rock, rap, hip-hop and so on because they are well beyond my domain of competence.
I have adequate access to the world literature for this type of work and am in touch with a number of major overseas jazz poets working in this field, so I am looking specifically for Australian and New Zealand information which sadly seems to escape the literature.
The details sought are as follows: Band or artist name, recording dates and locations, identification of poets and composers, accompanying musicians and their instruments (including the voice), poem or song titles, type of recording medium together with recording company names, catalogue numbers, and album titles. A reference point for accessibility to these products would be a useful addition.
The recording medium can be any type of modality and of commercial, private or archival provenance. Details should be sent to me as Chair, NSW Jazz Archive Inc., 30 Boorea St, Blaxland, NSW 2774. E-mail jpnewton@tpg.com.au Tel: (02) 4739-1715. All advice received will be acknowledged in the book when it appears. Best regards, Peter J.F. Newton.

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e-zines and e-anthologies for poets
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Longlines e-anthology
Now up on the Poets Union website www.poetsunion.com : the 2008 Longlines e-anthology (from the 2008 Australian Poetry Festival is now up on the Poets Union website. The 2008 Longlines Fellows were:
Ali Cobby-Eckermann, Helen Hagemann, Kimberley Mann and 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 kilometres 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

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Poetica - Radio National program – Australia wide
Poetica Radio National program www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/
Australia-wide Poetry program- every Saturday at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursdays at 3.05 pm POETICA PRESENTED BY BRENT CLOUGH AND MIKE LADD,
SATURDAY AT 3.05 PM, REPEATED 3.05 PM THURSDAY.
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PIFF - Poetry in Film Festival launched – INVITATION TO JOIN THEIR MAILING LIST
PIFF (Poetry in Film Festival) is officially launched. Invitation from the APC (Australian Poetry Centre in Melbourne) to join their mailing list for the Poetry in Film Festival. Click here to subscribe to their mailing list www.poetryinfilmfestival.com.au
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new e-anthology from Meuse Press: FROM THIS BROKEN HILL
Available at http://brokenhill.tripod.com/BrokenHill.htm Meuse Press has released an e-anthology titled “From This Broken Hill” – a unique combination of writing from some of the country’s top writers (past & present) combined with a dazzling array of photography. A place of near mythic proportions, this city deep in the outback. A mine that put the money into Melbourne. Arts hub while simultaneously isolated by distance.
But in some ways Broken Hill was the experiment that became multicultural Australia – it had the country’s first mosque, many communities continue to thrive within its boundaries. The rough heart of Unionism still stands strong. People escape to this city, others escape a childhood there. It has its horrors and highlights, once there you’ll never forget.
Read an excerpt from a Napoleon Bonaparte set in the city, read the view back from leading poet Rae Desmond Jones who grew up there and wonder at the mining waste turned into a thing of beauty surrounded by red soil. Edited by Barbara De Franceschi, Marvis Sofield and Les Wicks.
Supported by Broken Hill Regional Writers’ Centre, Broken Hill City Council, Countrylink & ArtsNSW
Available at http://brokenhill.tripod.com/BrokenHill.htm

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Islet Magazine – Island magazine’s new online publishing
For submissions or more information, contact the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au
Until the website is live, detailed submission guidelines will be temporarily available, at http://www.islandmag.com

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Guide to Sydney Beaches – a driftwood concept
A new web anthology saunters the sand with some of Australia’s leading poets.
Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm - is aimed at an audience that may not normally access this artform.
This is a driftwood concept – people seeking information about a certain beach stumble across this collection & discover fine Aust poetry. 20 great beaches, 30 superb poets. Hit numbers indicate it is already a huge success. This will increase as we move into Spring. The anthology is from Meuse Press, edited by PU member Les Wicks.
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Melaleuca – monthly e-zine of Australian poetry
MELALEUCA is a free e-zine of Australian poetry, delivered monthly
through your email in-box. For submissions and subscriptions, contact
the editor, Phillip A. Ellis, at phillip.a.ellis@gmail.com
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The Compulsive Reader – latest on-line issue
The Compulsive Reader News
maggieball@compulsivereader.com
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html

Volume 11, Issue 1, 20 January 2010
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Jacket Magazine – exciting news from John Tranter and Al Filreis
Jacket magazine: An Announcement from John Tranter and Al Filreis

Dear friends:

We are writing with news of a transition we both deem very exciting.

By the end of 2010, John Tranter and Pam Brown will have put out 40 issues of Jacket (jacketmagazine.com). It began in what John recalls as "a rash moment" in 1997 - an early all-online magazine, one of the earliest in the world of poetry and poetics, and quite rare for its consistency over the years. "The design is beautiful, the contents awesomely voluminous, the slant international modernist and experimental." (So said _The Guardian_.)

After issue 40, John will retire from thirteen years of intense every-single-day involvement with Jacket, and the entire archive of thousands of web pages will move intact to servers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where it will of course be available on the internet to everyone, for free, as always. But the magazine is not ceasing publication: quite the opposite.

Starting with the first issue in 2011, Jacket will have a new home, extra staff and a vigorous future as Jacket2. Jacket and its continuation, Jacket2, will be hosted by the Kelly Writers House and PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania.

The connection with PennSound, a vast and growing archive of audio recordings of poetry performance, discussion and criticism, is seen as a valuable additional facet of the new magazine, as is the relationship with busy Kelly Writers House, a lively venue for day-to-day poetic interchange of all kinds. The synergy in this three-way relationship has great potential.

Al will become Publisher and Jessica Lowenthal, Director of the Writers House, will be Associate Publisher. The new Editor will be Michael S. Hennessey (currently Managing Editor of PennSound) and the new Managing Editor will be Julia Bloch. John will be available as Founding Editor, and Pam will continue as Associate Editor.

More news about Jacket2 in the weeks and months to come. Meantime, the Jacket2 folks extend gratitude -- as many in the world of poetics do -- to John and to Pam Brown for the extraordinary work they've done. And John, for his part, is mightily pleased that Jacket will be preserved and will continue and grow in a somewhat new mode but with a continuous mission and approach.

John Tranter & Al Filreis
http://jackemagazine.com

Informative links:
The University of Pennsylvania: http://www.upenn.edu/
Al Filreis: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/
http://writing.upenn.edu/
Kelly Writers House: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/wh/
3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA: tel: 215-746-POEM
Kelly Writers House Director: Jessica Lowenthal: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/staff/
Michael S. Hennessey: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Hennessey.php
Julia Bloch: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bloch.php
Pam Brown: http://thedeletions.blogspot.com/
John Tranter: http://johntranter.com/
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Jacket Magazine – Number 38 now available (free internet literary magazine)
Jacket Magazine – Number 38 now available -- Late 2009:
http://jacketmagazine.com/38/index.shtml
Jonathan Williams -- Niedecker -- H.D. -- Blaser -- Dorn -- Geoffrey Hill -- Bei Dao
A free internet literary magazine -- Interviews -- Reviews -- Articles -- Poems
Editor: John Tranter :::::: Associate Editor: Pam Brown
Writers previously published in Jacket (only) may submit material. We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don't send material out of season.
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Folk Odyssey – the Magazine
Folk Odyssey – The Magazine http://www.folkclub.com/folkodyssey/
As you browse Folk Odyssey – the Magazine, you will discover that several sections offer an invitation for you to contribute your work to this enterprise. You may do this in the form of:
-a Letter to the Editor, -an article for Features,
-information for Event Horizon,
-photographs for FolkShot Gallery,
-poetry
-autobiography for Poet in Profile
-a story for StoryBoard.

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Keep up with Aesthetica
Keep up with Aesthetica and the latest arts and culture happenings at aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com
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if:book Australia
Based in Brisbane, if: book Australia is only the third centre of excellence of its kind for digital literature established in the world, after the New York and London Institutes. It is a Queensland Writers Centre international initiative. You can check out the UK branch here and US branch here .
if: book Australia will promote new forms of digital publishing and explore ways to boost connections between writers and audiences.

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The writer’s guide to making a digital living – Australia Council
Australia Council’s publication: The writer’s guide to making a digital living
The Australia Council has been getting a great response to the Writer’s guide both locally and internationally since its publication in December 2008. You can read the guide online or download it for free from our site. http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/writersguide Explore the interactive New Writing Universe! http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/writersguide/newwritinguniverse/
Make use of the 300+ links on delicious, referenced throughout the guide. http://del.icio.us/Writersguide Also includes a link to the promo video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRueQ1Q6NGA

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OTHER NEWS FOR POETS
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Congratulations to John Upton for having his poem ‘Dear God , It’s February’ published in the Sydney Morning Herald Feb 27-28, 2010
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Jean Kent WINNER of The Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize
Congratulations to PU member Jean Kent. Meanjin is delighted to announce that the inaugural winner of the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize for 2009 is Jean Kent, for her poem ‘The Polish Guitarist’s First Paris Concert’ (Vol 68/4).
The prize was run this year as a tribute to much-loved Australian poet, Dorothy Porter, and her legacy of work, and is co-sponsored by Porter’s agent, Jenny Darling & Associates. Kent’s poem was chosen by judges Andrea Goldsmith and Kristin Henry out of all the poems accepted for publication in Meanjin throughout 2009. She was presented with a $1,000 cash prize at an awards ceremony to be held at Gleebooks in Sydney on Saturday 14 November at 4pm. The event featured readings from Porter’s most recent collection, The Bee Hut, which was published by Black Inc. in September 2009. ‘The Polish Guitarist’s First Paris Concert’ will also be published in the forthcoming December edition of Meanjin. Jean Kent has released three books of poetry, including Verandahs, which was recently republished by Picaro Press in its Art Box Series. Her fourth collection, Travelling with the Wrong Phrase Books, was highly commended for the 2008 Alec Bolton Prize. She lives at Lake Macquarie in NSW. Meanjin is pleased to announce that the Dorothy Porter Prize will run again in 2010
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Christine Paice WINNER of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Christine Paice poet and long term member of the Poets Union who was the winner of the 2009 Josephine Ulrick Poetry prize with her poem The Ministry Of Going In. Sorry we are so late in acknowledging it Christine – it’s wonderful news! A copy of the poem is on the Poets Union Website under Festivals and Competitions.
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Lucy Holt WINNER of the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Congratulations to Lucy Holt - The 2009 NSW Premiers Literary Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers Festival.
Congratulations to Lucy Holt on her receipt of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for her collection ‘Man Wolf Man’. Lucy was a 2004 Poets Union ‘Australian Young Poets Fellowship’ holder and was mentored by the Poets Union. In 2005 the Poets Union published a chapbook of Lucy’s poems ‘Stories of A Bird’. The Poets Union is committed to raising funds to develop our mentoring, Poetry Fellowships, Poetry Scholarships, Residencies and Prizes. The full list of winners of The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and more information about the awards can be found here: http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/
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Australian poet Emma Jones WINNER Best First Collection, FORWARD PRIZE for her collection ‘The Striped World’
Congratulations to Emma Jones Emma Jones's The Striped World, inspired by her home country of Australia, was named winner of the £5,000 best first collection prize. Hart called her "an ambitious and intriguing new voice" whose poems "are both elliptical and visionary – inhabiting a parallel world of strange disjointed images within which we nevertheless find echoes of familiar experience".
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and congratulations to Forward Prize Winner: Don Paterson Scottish poet Don Paterson has triumphed over one of the strongest poetry shortlists in years to take the Forward prize for best collection with Rain. Paterson, 45, beat a line-up of acclaimed poets including Peter Porter, Sharon Olds and Glyn Maxwell to win the £10,000 award for Rain, a continuation of his personal and philosophical exploration of the world around him.

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2009 Wallace Stevens Award
Congratulations to Jean Valentine - Jean Valentine has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. The $100,000 prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.
and to Harryette Mullen Harryette Mullen has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Academy Fellowship. The Fellowship is awarded to a poet for distinguished poetic achievement and provides a stipend of $25,000. The Academy’s Board of Chancellors, a body of sixteen eminent poets, selects the Wallace Stevens Award and Academy Fellowship recipients. Who says poetry isn’t profitable? Full story is here: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21013
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Voiceworks
VOICEWORKS MAGAZINE TURNS 21 - The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine.
Express Media’s flagship publication and Australia’s premier youth literary magazine Voiceworks is celebrating more than a generation of writers who have made their forays into publishing through Voiceworks. Edited by Lisa Dempster, The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine is Express Media’s coming-of-age anthology and, like all good 21st celebrations, it’s a fierce, flirtatious and furious record of our life so far.

The Age Journalist, Marieke Hardy says, ‘What resounds through each page is the song each writer sings through their craft – a dizzying cavalcade of thoughts, a profusion of wit. Breathtaking not only in its scope but in its ambition.’ The Words We Found will be available through all good bookshops and online at www.expressmedia.org.au from November 16. Extract rights are also available. For all media enquiries, please contact Bel Schenk, Artistic Director on 0431 054 190 artisticdirector@expressmedia.org.au

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Cathy Bray
for Brook Emery and the Poets Union committee,
Poets Union Inc,
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