Poets Union Inc.

Poets Union e-news from December 8

2010-12-07T03:06:00.000-08:00

Dear Poets Union Members and Friends,

The Extraordinary General Meeting of the Poets Union was held on 27th November and authorised all the necessary changes for the merger with the APC in Melbourne. Australian Poetry, the new organisation, is only a few weeks away and counting.

Thank you to all those members who were able to come to the celebration of the Poets Union on Saturday 4 Dec. and make it such a success. There were over 30 readers, a great deal of reminiscing and a potted history of the Poets Union from Martin Langford.
Australian Poetry is the merger of the Poets Union (based in NSW) and the Australian Poetry Centre (based in VIC). Commencing formally in January 2011, it is a company limited by guarantee which has been recently granted Key Emerging Organisation status by the Australia Council. Australian Poetry has been created for the purpose of better serving the needs of the Australian poetry community while developing an increased interest in, and providing all poets and the wider community with greater access to, Australian poetry and poets.
Please visit the website for more info on the merger and your membership for 2011 by clicking on this link http://www.poetsunion.com/node/893

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POETRY EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND READINGS
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POETICA – ABC Radio National 3.05 pm Dec 9: Kevin Hart (Live) Kevin Hart reading at Adelaide Writers’ Festival Week 2010

December
4th Kevin Hart Live – Kevin Hart reading at Adelaide Writers’ Week 2010.
11th Orpheus and Eurydice – a selection of poetry from across the centuries that retells and reinterprets the ancient Greek myth.
18th Peter Porter – selected works of Peter Porter.
25th Birdsong – from Sufi verse to contemporary poems; an avian celebration.

January 2011
1st Wendy Cope – more than just a classic English humorist.
8th Don’t Fence Me In – a light-hearted look at cowboy poetry.
15th Why I Am Here – selected poems by Andrew Taylor.
22nd Lucy English – a meeting with this performance poet from Bristol in the U.K.
29th audio/file/poets/#10 – the latest in our series about poets working with sound.
Saturdays and Thursdays each week at 3.05pm.Australia-wide Poetry program .
POETICA is presented by BRENT CLOUGH and MIKE LADD
For further details please contact the producers of Poetica: Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271 Or visit our website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/

: Neil Pattinson and Janet Jackson followed by the LAST GIG OF THE YEAR AFTER PARTY at 5 pm
Event: Perth Poetry Club Reading
Special Guest: 11 December: Neil J Pattinson and Janet Jackson – last gig for 2010
Date: 11 December
Time: 2-4pm followed by AFTER-PARTY at 5 pm
Venue: at The Moon,
Address: 323 William Street, Northbridge.
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Perth Poetry Club's end of year After-party will take place on Saturday December 11, starting 5 pm. For more details, join us on Saturday, or check next week's mailout ...
Other events coming up in Perth Poetry:

Sunline Press: Sunday 12th December from 10am-12 noon at the serene Bodhi Tree Café – Confirmed readers so far are Kevin Gillam, Roland Leach, Shane McCauley, Vivienne Glance, Jennifer Kornberger, Andrew Burke and Annamaria Weldon. Copies of Sunline Press publications will be available for sale. Location: 1a/416-418 Oxford Street, Mt Hawthorn WA 6016. Tel: (08) 9444 9884 For more information about The Bodhi Tree please see http://www.bodhitree.net.au/

Claire Potter WA launch of Swallow - Mon 13 Dec, 6:30-8:30: Lucy Dougan launches Claire Potter's collection 'Swallow' at Kitsch Restaurant, Leederville. RSVP essential. swallowlaunch@gravyevents.com.au

Fringe Gallery 17th December: is NOT on the last Sunday of November. Their end-of-year bash is on 17 December. terry.farrell@optusnet.com.au

Perth Poetry Club's November & December lineup:
11 December : Neil J Pattinson and Janet Jackson – last gig for 2010
Break: 18 December, 25 December, 1 January 2011
8 January 2011: - we're back! Guest TBA

Perth Poetry Club, where slams meet sonnets.
Info, contact info & artist bios: www.perthpoetryclub.com
perthpoetryclub@gmail.com 0406 624 578

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Hunter Writers’ Centre – Christmas celebration fundraiser
11th December
There is change in the air at the HWC in the lead up to the end of the year and Newcastle Poetry Prize. 2011 will see some significant changes to the running of the centre and you can be involved.

Please keep an eye out for your ‘Letter from the Board’ in the coming weeks and pencil in the evening of Saturday 11th Dec for an HWC extravaganza/ Christmas Party/ FUNdraiser. We are set to end 2010 with a bang!

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2 pm on 12 Dec. Message from Ali – launch from Vagabond Press
– Rare Objects series of chapbooks...4 poets: Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jen Jewel Brown, Lisa Bellear and Stuart Cook

Hello Dear Friends and Poetry Admirers,

Just to let you know:
Event: launch of Vagabond Press – Rare Objects series of chapbooks

4 Poets and their collections :
- Ali Cobby Eckermann launches a new collection of poems titled Kami (Grandmother)
- Jen Jewel Brown launches her chapbook Great Southern
- Lisa Bellear Vagabond Press proudly presents a retrospect of Lisa’s poems titled Aboriginal
Country, edited by Jen Jewel Brown
- Stuart Cooke launches his new poetry book

Date: Sunday December 12th 2010
Time : 2 PM
Venue: Friend in Hand Hotel
Address: 58 Cowper Street Glebe
Entry: free – all welcome

And afterwards... Mersey Sound Collective...

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Sydney Def Poetry Jam #3 - Mersey Sound Collective
- Sunday night 12th December 6 pm

Event: A Sunday night of poetry performed by a myriad of gifted wordsmiths
from Mersey Sound Collective

Location: Studio 205, Hibernian House, Elizabeth Street, SURRY HILLS
Date: Sunday, December 12 • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Featuring: Old Men of Moss Mountain, Bravo Child, Tom Keily, Omar Musa, Adam Everill , Randall Stephens, Steve Smart, Farid Farid, Liam Frost, Pious Poet, Cj Shaw

MORE TBC + OPEN MIC

About Mersey Sound Collective We are a small umbrella group of Sydney folk dedicated to uniting local poets, artists, performers and musicians. We organize monthly open-mic jams which give people the opportunity to express themselves in a versatile space and a friendly supportive atmosphere. We aim to inspire collaboration, fusion and cross-pollination. We also conspire to network with other like-minded creative people!

Mersey Sound are currently looking for poets, artists, musicians, performers and everyone in between

Contact : merseysoundcollective@gmail.com

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14th Dec. Poetry at the Gods - Robyn Rowland & David Musgrave
Tues December 14: David Musgrave (Sydney),Robyn Rowland (Torquay, Victoria) will be the featured poets at The Gods' Cafe.

Venue:The Gods cafe and wine bar at ANU, Canberra
Address: The Gods Café/Bar,
ANU Arts Centre.
Directions: The Gods Café/Bar is in the ANU Arts Centre - across the quadrangle from the Student Union near Sullivans Creek.

About the guest poets: Tues Dec 14 David Musgrave (Sydney),Robyn Rowland (Torquay, Victoria)
Robyn Rowland’s New and Selected Poems will be published in 2010. Her Silence & its Tongues (Five Islands Press 2006) was runner up for the 2007 ACT Judith Wright Poetry Prize. She has read her work in Ireland, Portugal, Turkey, Serbia, Greece, the USA and the UK and been featured regularly on ABC Radio National.

David Musgrave is a poet, novelist, critic and publisher (Puncher & Wattmann). His poetry has won
several awards, including the Poets Union (Broadway), Bruce Dawe, Newcastle, Josephine Ulrick and Henry Lawson Poetry Prizes. His most recent books are Phantom Limb (John Leonard Press) and a novel Glissando: A Melodrama (Sleepers Publishing).

Dinner: Light meals are available from 6pm.
Please book at The Gods on 6248 5538.
Patrons intending to eat are asked to arrive by 6.30 to ensure that the readings can begin at 8pm.
Poetry reading from 8.00 pm
Entry fee: $5.
Seating is limited to 80 people.
To be sure of hearing a particular poet it is advisable to eat at the venue beforehand but ‘listening only’ 'non-eating' seats can also be booked.
Book directly by phoning the Gods Café/Bar - Tel.6248 5538
More info: Geoff Page - 8/40 Leahy Close, Narrabundah ACT 2604 Australia
+61 2 6239 4027 0400 800 340
Sponsors: Aldo Giurgola, Collaery Lawyers, Daltons Books, z4 Wines, artsACT

What’s on next at The Gods - Poetry at The Gods 2011 :

Tues Feb 8 John Foulcher (Canberra)
Ian McBryde (Melbourne)
Tues Mar 8 Luke Davies (Los Angeles)
Lionel Fogarty (South Australia)
Tues Apr 12 Jordie Albiston (Melbourne)
Alan Gould (Canberra)
Tues May 10 Mark Tredinnick (Southern Highlands)
Bronwyn Lea (Brisbane)
Tues Jun 14 John Stokes (Canberra)
Andrew McDonald (Canberra)
Lizz Murphy (Binalong, NSW)
Tues Jul 12 Kevin Hart (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Sarah Day (Hobart)
Tues Jul 26 Dead Poets’ Dinner
Tues Aug 9 Ron Pretty (Wollongong)
Joanne Burns (Sydney)
Tues Sep 13 Geoffrey Lehmann (Sydney)
Robert Gray (Sydney)
Tues Oct 11 Charlotte Clutterbuck (Canberra)
Moya Pacey (Canberra)
Robyn Cadwallader (Canberra)
Tues Nov Kevin Higgins (Galway, Ireland)
Susan Miller du Mars (Galway, Ireland)
Tues Dec 14 J Barbara Temperton (Geraldton)
Andrew Burke (Perth)

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Tas 28th Dec. – 3 Jan Rainforest Writing Tasmania
‘in the pin-drop silence of the Forest of Giants’
Date: 28 Dec- 3 Jan:
Event: Rainforest Writing, Tasmania

'Rejuvenating, invigorating, life changing."
Join our New Year's week-long walking and writing meditation in the Tarkine Wilderness.
Spend 4 days in the pin drop silence of the Forest of the Giants then travel down river to the wild Tarkine Coast.
Tutor: Jan Cornall
Use each day's meditative writing exercises with tutor Jan Cornall to develop your current work or start anew. Supported camping and walking with qualified guides.

Photos, itinerary, bookings: www.intotheblue.com.au or phone 0415 921 303

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4-11 January: Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2011
Creative work by the sea
The Australian Poetry Centre, Poets Union and South Coast Writers Centre present
Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2011
Creative work by the sea

A unique, immersive creative development experience for poets, the Wollongong Poetry Workshop is an intensive eight days of workshops, lectures, seminars and readings in the company of other people with a passion for poetry. Workshop tutors for 2011 include Michael Sharkey and Susan Hampton, with a third tutor and guest lecturers to be announced.

The Wollongong Poetry Workshop is ideal for emerging poets who want to access their full potential as poets, and for published poets who are ready to discover new dimensions to their practice. The Wollongong Poetry Workshop is Australia's premier creative development experience for poets. Past participants have gone on to win major prizes and publish award-winning books.

In 2011, the Wollongong Poetry Workshop will be held in the unique, secluded setting of the Clifton School of Arts, 30 minutes drive from Wollongong and an hour from Sydney. Built in 1911, this atmospheric little building clings to the escarpment at one end of the Seacliff bridge and is accessible by car, bus and train, and close to free parking.

Dates: 4 to 11 January, 2011
Venue: Clifton School of Arts,
Address: 338 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Clifton NSW 2515 (just north of Wollongong)

(a) Members only - Early bird registration for members who register before 25th October:
$480 for APC, Poets Union and SCWC members.
or
(b) Registration after Monday 25 October
$550 for APC, Poets Union and SCWC members. $720
or
(c) Registration after Monday 25 October
$880 for non-members.

Cost includes: lunch and morning and afternoon tea.
Registration and more information: please email wpoetryw@chariot.com.au or phone South Coast Writers Centre on 02 4228 0151.

Places are strictly limited. Previous participants will be automatically accepted into the workshop. If you have not previously attended the Wollongong Poetry Workshop, please send up to 10 pages of poetry and a CV or bio of no more than a page to wpoetryw@chariot.com.au.

If you are travelling from outside the area accommodation information is available from Tourism Wollongong - http://www.tourismwollongong.com/

Stayz has a list of rental houses and B&Bs, http://www.stayz.com.au

and there is a list of backpacker-style accommodation here -
http://www.about-australia.com/travel-guides/new-south-wales/illawarra/accommodation/backpacker/

A number of the local real estate agents also provide a holiday letting service.

If you are keen to share accommodation with other participants do contact us and we will do our best to put you in touch with those in the same position.

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7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival January 17-22, 2011,
Delray Beach, Florida
7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 17-22, 2011 in Delray Beach, Florida.

Take another look at the workshop descriptions for our featured poets, Stuart Dischell, Jane Hirshfield, Thomas Lux, Heather McHugh, Vijay Seshadri, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C.D. Wright, and Dean Young, and apply today.

Remember, this year, we inaugurate a Special Guest Poet Reading, following the annual gala on January 19. Robert Pinsky, former U. S. Poet Laureate, will read solo and accompanied by a trio of jazz musicians. This very special reading will be unlike any other we've presented at previous festivals.

The festival will be topped off with performances by D. Blair and Taylor Mali, superlative spoken word artists, who will bring the house down. Then you can dance the night away at our DiscO'Hara party!
Don't miss this opportunity to focus on your work with some of America's finest poets.

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NSW Writers’ Centre workshop – with Deb Westbury
Whole Body Smiling: Writing Poetry From the Senses

Event: WHOLE BODY SMILING: WRITING POETRY FROM THE SENSES
With Deb Westbury (11WEST2)
Date: Saturday 5 February,
Time: 10am - 4pm
Level: All levels
Student Requirements:
Food: Tea and coffee making facilities will be provided. Course participants are advised to bring their own lunch as there are no cafes within easy walking distance.
Size: 16 max
Cost: $150 full price, NSW Writers’ Centre member $105 and Concession members $90

Venue: NSW Writers’ Centre
Address: Callan Park, Balmain Road, Lilyfield
PO Box 1056 Rozelle 2039
Bookings and enquiries: T 02 9555 9757 F 02 9818 1327
workshops@nswwc.org.au

Deb Westbury is the acclaimed author of five poetry collections and has been a familiar and respected voice in Australian poetry for thirty-five years. Whether you are an experienced poet looking for a refresher or a first-timer just starting out, this practical one-day workshop will get you thinking, get you writing, get you to immerse yourself in the verse.

Deb will guide students through a series of gently paced, carefully structured exercises towards writing that is alive, vivid and authentic. Generate material for new writing projects. Let yourself be reminded of what you already know – writing comes from the whole body, not just the head. Learn skills and approaches to writing poetry that will sustain your work well beyond the life of the workshop.

DEB WESTBURY has been a familiar and respected voice in Australian poetry since her work was first published in 1975. She has developed a dual career as a writer and teacher. Deb is an inspirational educator and speaker, as well as an entertaining reader of her own poetry. With an undergraduate degree in teaching and a Master of Creative Arts degree in writing, she teaches courses in creative writing at various universities, for community groups and high schools throughout Australia. Deb resides in the Blue Mountains and is actively involved with Varuna The Writers’ House. Since her first collection of poetry, Mouth to Mouth, was published in 1990 Deb has written Our Houses are Full of Smoke (Angus and Robertson, 1994), Surface Tension (Five Islands Press, 1998), Flying Blind (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002), and, most recently, her new and selected poems, The View From Here (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2008).

“The act of imagination is bound up with memory… what the nerves and the skin remember, as well as how it appeared.” – Toni Morrison

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COMPETITIONS, PRIZES and SUBMISSIONS
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Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards - entries due 31st Jan.
2010 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards – Call for Entries

The State Library of Western Australia announces the Call for Entries for the 2010 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards and a new category, the Digital Narrative Award.

Entry is open to books, scripts and digital narrative which have been published/produced between 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010.
Eligibility: To be eligible authors must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia or whose work has Australia as its primary focus.
Due date: The closing date for entries is 5pm Monday 31 January 2011.

There are 8 categories in the Awards: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children's Book, Writing for Young Adults, Poetry, Scripts, State Library of Western Australia West Australian History Award and the new Digital Narrative Award which recognises the use of new media in storytelling/writing.

The Premier's Prize of $25,000 is presented to the overall winner, chosen from the category winners.

Prize money is made available by the Western Australian Government. The West Australian History Award is sponsored by the State Library of Western Australia.

Short listed entries will be announced in June 2010.

The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards are managed by the State Library of Western Australia.

Writers or publishers wanting to enter their work should view or download the new Guidelines and then go to the Online Entry Form on the State Library’s website at http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pba.html

For more information regarding the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards please contact
Doug George on (08) 9427 3150.
Manager Public Programs
T (08) 9427 3150 F (08) 9427 3152 M 0417 961 060
E doug.george@slwa.wa.gov.au

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Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize – entries due 31 Jan
Poetry : up to 200 line poem or suite of poems
Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and Poetry Prize
31 January 2011
Amongst the richest poetry and short story prizes in the world, the Josephine Ulrick prizes in 2011 are worth $40,000 in prize money. Short stories 1000-3000 words; Poetry up to 200 lines.

Full details on the Griffith University website:
http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/school-humanities/news-and-events/josephine-ulrick-prizes

The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2011 - Up to 200 line poem or suite of poems

First Prize: $10,000
Second Prize: $5,000
Commended: 2 prizes each at $2,500

Closing date: 31 January 2011
• More information on the life of Josephine Ulrick
• Entry Form for the Poetry Prize
• Terms and Conditions of Entry for the Poetry Prize
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Contact Us5
• Past Winners for the Poetry Prize
General Enquiries Phone Number (07) 5552 8093 +61 7 5552 8093
General Enquiries Email Clare Keys - c.keys@griffith.edu.au

Location and Postal Address: School of Humanities,
Gold Coast Campus,
Griffith University, QLD 4222
Australia

Read the 2009 and 2010 winners and see the judges' comments at http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick11

2010 Poetry Prize Winners
First Prize ($10,000) 'endtime' by Nathan Curnow, Victoria.
Second Prize ($5,000) 'Always Sometimes Never' by Andrew Slattery, New South Wales.
Commended ($2,500) 'One Broken Knife' by Carmen Leigh Keates, Queensland.
Commended ($2,500) 'Dead Sea Psalms' by Jill Pattinson, Victoria.
Judges' comments

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QLD Poetry Festival – Expressions of Interest due by 24 Feb 2011
for Queensland Poetry Festival 26-28 August

Queensland Poetry Festival Expressions of Interest Invited
Queensland Poetry Festival invites proposals from poets and other performers and artists interested in being part of the 15th annual festival. QPF runs from 26-28 August, 2011 at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.

QPF would like to hear from individuals and groups interested in performing at the 15th annual Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word, or who have projects to pitch that can be run 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. If you are programmed to perform at QPF 2011 flights, accommodation and performance fees will be provided. In a small number of cases successful applicants will be offered assistance in writing an application to relevant funding bodies, such as the Regional Arts Development Fund to supplement travel and accommodation expenses.

Please Send:
An outline of your proposed reading/project. Include proposed length of reading/performance, detailed list of technical requirements and bios of all persons participating in the reading/project.
Please keep submission length to two (2) A4 pages.
A CV, no longer than one (1) A4 page, outlining relevant performances/publications.
A sample copy of your work e.g. published collection/work, CD/DVD as well as any blog/youtube/myspace links to your work.
Your full contact details including postal address, telephone and email contact must be included.
Submission Dates:
Expressions of Interest must be received by close of business, Thursday 24 February, 2011. Submissions received after this date will not be considered. Emailed submissions will not be considered unless the applicant lives outside of Australia.

Mailing Address:
Queensland Poetry Festival
PO Box 3488
South Brisbane
QLD 4101

Questions:
If you have any questions regarding your submission please don’t hesitate in contacting the Festival Manager at qldpoetry@gmail.com. For more information regarding QPF and its programs visit www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com

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Changes at Varuna (update thanks to the WOW newsletter)

Varuna, the Writers' House Expands National Writing Program
Varuna the Writers House, the national writers centre in Katoomba, has announced important operational changes to support the development of Australian authors. From 2012, Varuna will expand the range of genres covered in its intensive residential weeks, which have been pivotal to the advancement of Australian writers for more than 20 years.

This is an exciting era of change for Varuna, said Gil Appleton, chair of the Eleanor Dark Foundation, which runs the highly regarded writers centre. The expansion of our program will be guided by a Consultative Panel of people drawn from the writing community and Varuna board members. The Panel will develop new initiatives and take a fresh look at Varuna's current programs. This is part of Varuna's long-term strategy to strengthen the Australian writing community by building innovative partnerships with writers, and create pathways to publication.

Programs for 2012 will be listed on Varuna's website (www.varuna.com.au) by December. Varuna offers established and emerging writers concentrated writing time, supported by expert advice and catered accommodation.

After 17 years at Varuna, Creative Director Peter Bishop has decided to step down in order to pursue opportunities in writing and publishing. He will maintain his relationship with Varuna, working as a consultant and continuing his mentoring work with writers in residence and other initiatives including Publisher Fellowships and Alumni Writing Weeks. 'I thank the Board for the many opportunities you have made possible for me, and I thank Mick Dark (son of Eleanor, who donated her house) for what he has so magnificently enabled for the Australian writing community", said Peter Bishop.

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Call for poems for Hunter Writers’ Centre monthly newsletter
Hunter Writers’ Centre will be accepting poems or short stories for the HWC monthly newsletter, so if you have something you would like published, send it in to us at hwcadmin@optusnet.net.au

Poems can be up to 30 lines, and short stories no longer than 1000 words. Excerpts from novels are also welcome. Please send documents as attachments in size 12 TNR font, and have HWC submission in the subject line of your email. They can't pay for submissions but it's a good opportunity to read local talent.

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RED ROOM COMPANY calls for submissions for SMH ‘Extra’ section
(up to 2 poems of 20 lines maximum – new and emerging poets encouraged to apply)

THE RED ROOM COMPANY IS CALLING ON POETS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA TO SUBMIT POEMS FOR PUBLICATION IN THE SUN-HERALD ‘EXTRA’ SECTION.
This new series of poems will have a focus on younger and emerging writers trying to make a name for themselves as poets. We want all styles of poetry, so that readers can get a taste of the full palate of current Australian poetry. The only limitation is space.
Submit as attachment: Please send all submissions as a simple Word .doc attachment to
Email : text@redroomcompany.org
Subject: ‘Sun Herald Extra Submission’ in the subject header.
Maximum two submissions per poet, and please, remember the size constraints when choosing work
Length: 20 lines is about the max.
REDROOM COMPANY website www.redroomcompany.org

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Mascara Literary Review (Mascara Poetry has expanded! )
Mascara Literary Review is now accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction and essays.
Mascara Literary Review is an online literary journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian (as well as Australian and Indigenous) writers.

In our current issue (Issue 7), Judith Beveridge is the featured poet. Anthony Lawrence will be the featured poet in Issue 8.

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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Submissions invited for Anaphora Literary Press
Message to the Poets Union APC and the new Australian Poetry Ltd members from Phillip Ellis:

“Anna Faktorovich of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal has informed me that she's starting a new press, and that she is interested in strong, full-length poetry collections. I include the following from their website:

"Anaphora Literary Press: Our Press will be listed in the upcoming edition of the Writer's Market and on www.WritersMarket.com We now accept submissions of book-length manuscripts from authors around the world. The submissions should be in English, with MLA citations (if it
is an academic book). Genres we hope to publish: academic and scholarly books, drama, novels and novellas, poetry, autobiography, biography, journals, conference proceedings, edited dissertations, and other genres. “

Please email submissions directly to the Publisher: Anna Faktorovich, at pennsylvaniajournal@gmail.com Profits will be shared with the author for single-author books."

http://sites.google.com/site/pennsylvaniajournal/

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Poetry: The Indelible Stencil project - expressions of interest sought for regional poets to be part of a creative team
Poetry: The Indelible Stencil. A message from Lizz Murphy: Are you a poet living in the Upper Lachlan or Wollondilly shires of SE NSW?

Lizz Murphy coordinator of a major regional poetry as public art project, Poetry: The Indelible Stencil, would like to hear from emerging and established poets based specifically in the Upper Lachlan and Wollondilly shires in SE NSW.

I still have one or two openings on the creative team. The project is starting up now with completion of public works planned for mid-2011. To express interest please send a bio, the town you live in and contact details to lizzmurphy@tadaust.org.au in the first instance. I will send you more info at that point. Poetry: The Indelible Stencil is a partnership with Southern Tablelands Arts (STARTS) and eight local governments. It is supported by NSW Regional Arts Fund and CASP.

I am particularly interested in hearing from poets from the following postcodes:

Wollondilly (postcodes are a loose guide: 2560-2574)
• Appin 2560
• Bargo 2574
• Belimbla Park 2570
• Brownlow Hill 2570
• Buxton 2571
• Camden Park 2570
• Cawdor 2570
• Couridjah 2571
• Douglas Park 2569
• Glenmore 2570
• Menangle 2568
• Mount Hunter 2570
• Mowbray Park 2571
• Nattai and the Burragorang Valley 2570
• Oakdale 2570
• Pheasants Nest 2574
• Picton 2571
• Razorback 2571
• Silverdale 2572
• Tahmoor 2573
• The Oaks 2570
• Theresa Park 2570
• Thirlmere 2572
• Warragamba 2572
• Wilton 2571
• Yanderra 2574
• Yerranderie ?

Upper Lachlan (postcodes are a loose guide: 2580-2583)
Crookwell 2583
Gunning 2581
Dalton “
Grabben Gullen 2583
Collector 2581
Taralga 2580
Binda 2583
Bigga & Grabine “
Tuena & Laggan “

Lizz Murphy
Project Coordinator for
Poetry: The Indelible Stencil
PO Binalong NSW 2584
Phone: 02 6227 4393
Email: lizzmurphy@tadaust.org.au

Working in partnership with Elizabeth Brown Regional Arts Development Officer
Southern Tablelands Arts (STARTS) Phone 4821 7028 Email elizabethbrown@starts.com.au

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Cordite Poetry Review ‘Epic’ 31st issue published December 2009.
Submissions now open for Cordite Poetry Review.
Message from David Prater (Ed) – we are not accepting submissions of haiku or senryu .
Details available at www.cordite.org.au

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Jazz and Poetry section of annotated discography on jazz and literature
- Submissions invited
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 (Peter Newton) 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, on-line courses and e-anthologies for poets
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“1960” live video stream Tues 7th Dec. At 10.00 am – the Kelly Writers’ House, Pennsylvania. A brief retrospective review of a book published that year. Recordings in PennSound and Poets’ commentaries will be published as ‘the poetry & poetics of 1960’ in Jacket 2.

If you can't make it to Philly, watch this live as a video stream. Just go here http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/
at 10.00 am Tuesday 7th December -Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time

Event: symposium on poetry of 1960 – recorded, live stream and eventually available at PennSound and published in Jacket 2
Date: AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME: WEDNESDAY 7th December 10.00 AM (Back in the USA : Monday, December 6)
Time: Australian Eastern daylight saving time: 10.00 am Wednesday morning
Venue: the Arts Café
Address: Kelly Writers House,
3805 Locust Walk
Free entry: No registration required - this event is free & open to the public

About the symposium - the Writers House celebrates what happened in poetry a half century ago with a symposium entitled POETRY IN 1960. Symposium host and Writers House faculty director AL FILREIS brings together eleven poets each to discuss a seminal work from that pivotal year -- work by Frank O’Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Cage, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, and Jackson Mac Low. A Q&A and reception will follow. We hope you will join us for this exciting confabulation!

If you can't make it to Philly, watch this live as a video stream. Just click http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/ here at 10.00 am Tuesday 7th December -Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (6 PM US eastern time next Monday) and watch!
The recordings will later be made available in PennSound and the symposium will be published in Jacket2.
The Kelly Writers House presents POETRY IN 1960 - a symposium, featuring

BOB PERELMAN
RON SILLIMAN
RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS
CHRIS FUNKHOUSER
ERICA KAUFMAN
JUDITH GOLDMAN
KRISTEN GALLAGHER
DANNY SNELSON
MICHAEL S. HENNESSEY
CHARLES BERNSTEIN
MEL NICHOLS

hosted by AL FILREIS

KWH Faculty Director AL FILREIS curates a remarkable gathering of poets to present brief commentaries of books of poetry published in 1960 – to help mark the 50th anniversary of each.

Each poet will read his or her 500- to 750-word critical commentary or retrospective review, after which there will be a Q&A session and a celebratory reception.

The poets’ commentaries will later be published as a special feature on the poetry & poetics of 1960 in Jacket2...

BOB PERELMAN on The New American Poetry edited by Donald Allen
RON SILLIMAN on The Opening of the Field by Robert Duncan
RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS on Second Avenue by Frank O'Hara
CHRIS FUNKHOUSER on Stanzas for Iris Leza by Jackson Mac Low

ERICA KAUFMAN on The Location of Things by Barbara Guest

JUDITH GOLDMAN on The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks

KRISTEN GALLAGHER on Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by LeRoi Jones

DANNY SNELSON on Cartridge Music by John Cage

MICHAEL S. HENNESSEY on A New Folder edited by Daisy Aldan

CHARLES BERNSTEIN on On My Eyes by Larry Eigner

http://afilreis.blogspot.com/2010/11/1960-symposium-monday-december-6-6-pm.html

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POETICA – ABC Radio National. Saturdays and Thursdays :
Australia-wide Poetry program - Saturdays at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursdays at 3.05 pm
POETICA is presented by BRENT CLOUGH and MIKE LADD - For further details please contact the producers of Poetica: Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271
Or visit the Poetica website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/

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Message from Pennsylvania Literary Journal
- Anaphora Literary Press
Message to the Poets Union, APC and Australian Poetry Ltd members from Phillip Ellis:

Anna Faktorovich of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal is starting a new press, and she is interested in strong, full-length poetry collections.

"Anaphora Literary Press: Our Press will be listed in the upcoming edition of the Writer's Market and on www.WritersMarket.com We now accept submissions of book-length manuscripts from authors around the world. The submissions should be in English, with MLA citations (if it is an academic book). Genres we hope to publish: academic and scholarly books, drama, novels and novellas, poetry, autobiography, biography, journals, conference proceedings, edited dissertations, and other genres. “

Please email submissions directly to the Publisher: Anna Faktorovich, at pennsylvaniajournal@gmail.com. Profits will be shared with the author for single-author books."

http://sites.google.com/site/pennsylvaniajournal/

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e-guide on publishing – pdf of 2nd edition still available for $10
and new (3rd) edition of ‘A Decent Proposal’ on its way in Feb. 2011
A Decent Proposal.
How to sell your book to an Australian publisher or agent

by Rhonda Whitton and Sheila Hollingworth
(Keesing Press, Australian Society of Authors, 2011)

The third, fully revised edition of this resource book for writers will be available in February 2011. The book will be published in soft cover and e-book versions, and we’ll let you know as soon as stock is available.

In the meantime, the pdf version of the second edition is still available (for $10) from Sheila Hollingworth or www.rhondawhitton.com.au
Sheila Hollingworth, Writer & Cartoonist
Ph/fax 03 5348 2494 Website: www.cartoonsbysheila.com
Blog: http://cartoonsbysheila.wordpress.com

Writing can be a self-absorbing process and emerging authors often overlook the importance of presenting their book to a publisher or agent in a concise, convincing and professional Book Proposal package.

Based on the authors’ own experiences, an industry-wide survey and using various writers’ successful proposals as examples, A Decent Proposal introduces writers to the techniques required to develop a convincing Book Proposal package that will satisfy (yes, and even excite) an Australian publisher or agent.

‘Whether you've completed a fantasy novel or just had an original idea for a self-help book, knowing how to pitch your concept to the right agent or publisher is an essential part of your writer's toolbox.

A Decent Proposal takes you into the bewildering world of selling your work, guides you through the do's and don'ts, shows you how to make your baby stand out in a competitive crowd. Be a professional suitor: learn to propose.’ Jane Sullivan, The Age.

‘If I had a dollar for every time I’ve recommended this book I could probably retire!’ Sally Bird, Calidris Literary Agency.

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Big Game Books accepting queries re full-length poetry manuscripts
Via the Dumbfoundry blog

Big Game Books is accepting queries for full-length poetry manuscripts (i.e., manuscripts between 48-96 pages) through April 1.

URL: http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/bluesubmit.htm

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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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FROM THIS BROKEN HILL 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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Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm
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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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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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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Knopf’s National Poetry Month http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/
If you register with Knopf’s National Poetry Month, they will email you a poem every day in April...Every year in celebration of National Poetry Month, Knopf Poetry offers a free poem—along with bonus features like beautiful broadsides, audio clips, and signed books—each day during the month of April through our Poem-a-Day emails.
Enter your email address to sign up http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/

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OTHER NEWS FOR POETS
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Congratulations to Brenda Saunders, winner of the Banjo Paterson award for Open Poetry for her poem ‘Wonderland’
2010 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards Winner by Category:

Open Poetry Winner - Brenda Saunders, Randwick - "Wonderland"
Prose Winner - Jacqueline Winn, Possum Brush - "The Dangers of Swimming"
Bush Poetry Winner - Ron Stevens, Dubbo - "Behind the Flag"
Children's Category Winner - Chris Frith, Baradine - "The Downpour"

This year 151 entries were received in the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards with 60 Prose or Short Story entries, 53 in the Open Poetry, 22 in the Bush Poetry and 16 in the Children’s section. Orange City Librarian Elizabeth Barry said bushfires, drought and animals were recurring themes across all the sections of the competition.
This year bushfires, drought and animals were recurring themes across all the sections of the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards.
We are pleased to announce the following winners:

Prose: Jacqueline Winn, of Possum Brush NSW, for The Dangers of Swimming, Greg McFarland, of Orange NSW, for Roadside Memorial and Kate Rotherham, of Allans Flat VIC, for Shelter.
Open Poetry: Brenda Saunders, of Randwick NSW, for Wonderland.
Bush Poetry: Ron Stevens, of Dubbo NSW, for Behind the Flag and Ellis Campbell, of Dubbo NSW, for The Toll and Ellis Campbell, of Dubbo NSW, for A Dynasty's Demise.
Children's Writing Awards: Chris Frith, of Baradine NSW for The Downpour, Eleanor Delaney, of Orange NSW for The Last Dee Why Day - A True Story and Chester Fitzhardinge, of Balgowlah NSW, for The Dream Protectors.
The Yvonne Zola Encouragement Award goes to Elise Sinclair, of Orange NSW, for her story, Tommy in Trouble.
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Petition re Creative Writing Courses at TAFE from Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) in Victoria
To: Stakeholders and Interested Parties to the TAFE Diploma of Professional Writing And Editing
Dear FAW Members and Associated writers,

The Fellowship is not normally politically active but in this case we're taking the time to seek your support in signing Petition attempting to overturn an attempt to eliminate creative writing from the newly accredited TAFE Diploma of Professional Writing And Editing, due to take effect in 2012.

The attachment to this email explains in full detail what that impact is, how it came about, and the recommendations we are making to the State Minister for Education & Training, to redress this unacceptable situation.

We hope you can take the time to read of our concerns. If you decide to support the Petition, you can click on the following link (or paste it in your web browser and press return) and register as a signatory:
http://www.petitions24.com/save_creative_writing_in_tafe

We would also like you to forward this email to any on your email list who may be interested in supporting the Petition.

Thanking you in advance for your support,
Philip Rainford Gail Blundell
President Vice President

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New Arts Venue – call for expressions of interest by Jan 28, 2011
The NSW Arts Minister, Virginia Judge, has called for registrations of interest from not-for-profit arts organisations interested in using Pier 2 / 3 at Walsh Bay. “The NSW government secured a 99 year lease over Pier 2 / 3 earlier this year, ensuring the iconic structure would be utilised for arts and cultural activities into the future,” she says. “We’re now calling for expressions of interest for long-term arts and cultural uses of the pier.” Used by a variety of arts organisations including Sydney Writers’ Festival and the Biennale of Sydney, the pier will be refurbished, adding to the arts and cultural hub at Walsh Bay.
Registrations of interest close on January 28.
Details at www.arts.nsw.gov.au

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Congratulations to Ray Liversidge, winner of the 2010 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Ray Liversidge, winner of the 2010 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize for his poem ‘The Lawn’.

Ray Liversidge has won the 2010 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize.

Ray Liversidge’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Australia, Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Canada and the USA. He has written a book of poetry Obeying the Call, a verse novel The Barrier Range and a chapbook The Divorce Papers which was published this year. He is currently working on a manuscript on the work and lives of dead poets.

Ray has his own website... http://poetray.wordpress.com/

The details of the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize can be found at the USQ website: http://www.usq.edu.au/arts/community/poetryprize

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Congratulations to Judith Beveridge, winner of the 2010 Grace Leven Poetry Prize for her collection ‘Storm and Honey’

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Scanlon Prize for a collection of Indigenous Poetry – Jeanine Leane
2010 Winner of the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry

At the Poets Union Australian Poetry Festival held in The Rex Centre, Kings Cross, Sydney (4-5 September) the judge for this year’s Scanlon Prize, Yvette Holt from Queensland, announced and introduced the winner, Jeanine Leane, for her book of poems Dark Secrets (PressPress, 2010).

In the judge’s words "Leane's journey is interwoven with post-colonial stitches of a matriarchal society. Aboriginal women's voices echo throughout this divine collection of contemporary storytelling."
Ms Holt added that the Scanlon Prize “is an award of national significance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander poets to aspire to in recognition of their published poetry, independent of state literary awards.”

Jeanine Leane is a writer and educator who lives in Canberra, ACT.

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Cricket Poetry Award – winner announced: Matt Young for his poem, ‘Gentleman Jim’
Matt Young’s “Gentleman Jim” wins the 2010 Cricket Poetry Award.
Over one hundred entries were received from the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Bahrain and Australia for the Cricket Poetry Award competition in 2010.
The last four poems were selected and publicly read at the Cricket Art Prize opening - Members Pavilion, Sydney Cricket Ground on October 7th.
The judges, Peter Fenton and Sally Loane agonised over which poem should win. “In the end, we had to make some tough decisions and it wasn’t an easy process.” said Peter Fenton
Sally Loane added “As judges we were drawn to poems that were more of a personal nature. Rather than depicting characters and actions, we were lured to the poet's own state of mind, emotions and views.”
“Gentleman Jim” by Matt Young pays homage to the many time-honoured and experienced umpires that diligently adjudicate the weekend games in social, grade and competition cricket over the summer.

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Ian Reed Foundation 2010 - Writers-in-residence announced
Following a call-out by the Ian Reed Foundation, nearly 200 writers applied for two writer-in-residence opportunities with ABC Radio National. Congratulations to composer/writer Rosalind Page from regional New South Wales, who will work on her play Wildlife and Michele Lee from Melbourne, with her work See how the Leaf People Run.

These residencies will be based in ABC Radio National’s drama unit in Melbourne and Sydney.

Applications were received from all over Australia from writers who have not previously written for radio including poets, essayists, journalists and songwriters. In addition to creating a work for potential broadcast, the successful recipients will have the chance to observe work on other productions and to collaborate with ABC Radio National’s award-winning sound engineers and drama producers.

Michele Lee's play See how the Leaf People Run is about an orphan Hmong boy, Charlie, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder who almost drowned trying to cross the Mekong river to get from Laos, to Thailand and then to Melbourne.

“I'm really looking forward to learning more about the medium and the process of production,” Michele Lee said when her successful application was announced.

Michele’s Ian Reed Foundation residency comes hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of her appointment as a 2010 Melbourne Theatre Company Emerging Writer.

“The opportunity to work with percussionist Claire Edwards to further develop Wildlife is beyond my wildest dreams - just thrilling news!”, said composer/writer Rosalind Page.

Ian Reed was a notable Australian writer of radio drama. He loved the freedom of the medium and when he died in 1979 he left the bulk of his estate to the ABC to encourage ‘potential and aspiring’ writers of radio drama. The Ian Reed Foundation administers the fund that is used to provide for competitions, workshops, script development and dramaturgy as well as other activities intended to support new writers for radio.

For further information about the Ian Reed Foundation, visit abc.net.au/rn/ianreed

For media enquiries, please contact Nicola Fern, Marketing Manager, ABC Radio National on 03 9626 1758 or fern.nicola@abc.net.au

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Poet Philip Gross is the winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for his collection of poems ‘I Spy Pinhole Eye’

The Winner is … Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)
Poet Philip Gross has won the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for I Spy Pinhole Eye - a collection of poems published by Cinnamon Press. The announcement was made on Wednesday 30 June at a Gala Dinner at St David’s Hotel in Cardiff, introduced by BBC Wales Political Editor, Betsan Powys. Gross was presented with the £10,000 prize by Minister for Heritage, Alun Ffred Jones.
Philip Gross is the author of twelve poetry collections, including The Water Table which won the T S Eliot Prize 2010, as well as a fiction writer, dramatist and Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. He lives in Cardiff.
I Spy Pinhole Eye is a collaborative work between poet and photographer. Simon Denison uses a pinhole camera to transform that most mundane of objects – the footings of electricity pylons - while Philip Gross’s poems explore the act of seeing and interpretation.

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Congratulations to Nathan Curnow winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for his poem endtime

Nathan Curnow is the winner of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2010 for his poem endtime.

2010 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize winners:
First Prize ($10,000) ‘endtime’ by Nathan Curnow, Victoria
Second Prize ($5,000) ‘Always Sometimes Never’ by Andrew Slattery, New South Wales
Commended ($2,500) ‘One Broken Knife’ by Carmen Leigh Keates, Queensland
Commended ($2,500) ‘Dead Sea Psalms’ by Jill Pattinson, Victoria
Judges' comments: http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Read the 2009 and 2010 winners and see the judges' comments at http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Visit the Griffith University website http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/school-humanities/news-and-events/josephine-ulrick-prizes

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Jordie Albiston winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier’s Award for Literature) for her collection ‘the sonnet according to ‘m’
Jordie Albiston lives in Melbourne, where she was born in 1961. She is a poet whose work frequently reflects historical research. Australian composer Andrée Greenwell has adapted two of her books (Botany Bay Document, 1996 - retitled Dreaming Transportation - and The Hanging of Jean Lee, 1998) for music-theatre: both enjoyed seasons at the Sydney Opera House. Nervous Arcs won the Mary Gilmore Award for a first book of Australian poetry in 1995, and was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize. Her fourth collection, The Fall, was shortlisted for Premier's Prizes in Victoria, NSW and Queensland. Here fifth, Vertigoa cantata was published by John Leonard Press, in 2007. She holds a PhD in literature.
The letter ‘m' is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmother and the poet. Jordie Albiston, with characteristic delicacy and zest, limns these very different women as perspectives to each other.
Recurrence is intrinsic to sonnets. They are patterned internally, and are often paroxysmal: a perfect form and formation for poems which worry the distinction between the fatal and the banal. The sequence tells what happens when you admit the existential into everyday life, in small or large doses. The results can be desolate, or sublime. And comedic as well: Albiston knows how to play between darkness and send-up, when it comes to an arduous and animating tension between body and mind.
The Sonnet According to 'M' is published by John Leonard Press
Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to ‘m'

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Derek Motion - winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets for his work “forest hill”
07 Apr 2010 : A national prize held in honour of Australian poet Judith Wright has been awarded to Charles Sturt University (CSU) postgraduate student, Mr Derek Motion. The 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, valued at $3 000, has been won by the poet and PhD student for his work, ‘forest hill’.
The successful poets featured at a presentation event at the Melbourne Emerging Writers’ Festival on Saturday 29 May, alongside Keri Glastonbury and Gig Ryan (poetry editors of Overland and The Age respectively).
In addition to the prize money, Mr Motion’s poem will be published in the next issue of Overland, a quarterly e-bulletin about events, politics and literature. He was presented the poetry award at the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival in the Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday 29 May.

Commenting on the winning entries including Mr Motion’s work, judge Dr Keri Glastonbury found, “…this loose-knit community is where a lot of the energy and action in Australian poetry is, and I look forward to seeing these poets release first books”.
Mr David Gilbey, Senior Lecturer in English at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga said, “I'm delighted at Derek's continuing success in the lists of Australian letters. Derek's poetry is concentrated, allusive, multi-faceted, drawing on literary traditions and contemporary cultural and technological practices. It is also finely human and wittily self-facing - a pleasure to read.
“Like Judith Wright's poetry, Derek combines metaphysical, personal and social concerns. He richly deserves this award and it's a mark of the modernity and integrity of the judging that his poetry has been recognised.”

Mr Motion named his poem ‘forest hill' after the area on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga where he spent some of his early years and where went to primary school.
“In particular I think I was concerned with locating imagery surrounding the time when you start to become who you are; a kind of site of individuation and thinking about what this means for the adult me,” Mr Motion said.

It is not the first time the CSU postgraduate student has had his work honoured at the national level.
In October 2009, Mr Motion received an Australia Council 2010 Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Initiative Grant, valued at $15 000. Read more here.

Mr Motion is doing his PhD through the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga. His research focuses on his own poetry in the context of Australian poets, Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) and Michael Dransfield (1948-1973).
Living in Wagga Wagga with his young family, Mr Motion is also Director of the Booranga Writers’ Centre at CSU.

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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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Congratulations to Ali Cobby Eckerman - Ali Cobby Eckerman has had a series of Yankunytjatjara Love Poems selected for inclusion in Best Poems 2010 by Black Inc.
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Emma Jones WINNER Best First Collection, FORWARD PRIZE for her collection ‘The Striped World’
Congratulations to Australian poet, 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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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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Christine Paice WINNER of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2009
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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VOICEWORKS MAGAZINE
TURNED 21 - The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine.
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 Words We Found available through all good bookshops and online at www.expressmedia.org.au http://www.expressmedia.org.au/ 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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Best wishes,
Cathy Bray
for Brook Emery and the Poets Union committee,
Poets Union Inc,
PO Box 755, POTTS POINT NSW 1335
Tel. (02) 9357 6602 (Tuesdays & Wednesdays)
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Poets Union e-news for poets all over Australia - Nov 19

2010-11-18T18:59:00.000-08:00

Dear Poets Union Members and Friends,

1. 27th Nov. Poets Union Inc. - EGM (Extraordinary General Meeting)

2. Sat. 4th December... THE BIG POETS UNION POETRY PARTY

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POETRY EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND READINGS
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POETICA – ABC Radio National in November
Thursdays and Saturday 3.05 pm

November
6th Poets on Poetry – poets from Coleridge to Billy Collins air their thoughts on the art of poetry.
13th The Australian Popular Songbook – Alan Wearne’s suite of poems drawing on popular songs from the 1880s through to the 1980s.
20th The Darwin Poems – Emily Ballou’s poetic recreation of the life of Charles Darwin.
27th Tom Petsinis – A feature on the work of Australian poet and mathematician, Tom Petsinis.
Saturdays and Thursdays each week at 3.05pm.Australia-wide Poetry program .

POETICA is presented by BRENT CLOUGH and MIKE LADD
For further details please contact the producers of Poetica: Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271 Or visit our website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/

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19 Nov. NSW State Final of the AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM 2010 - NSW State Final - 19 November 2010 at 8.00pm

Event: NSW State Final of AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM 2010
Date: 19 November 2010 at 8.00pm
Time: 8.00 pm
Venue: Sydney Theatre,
Address: 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

Box Office: (02) 9250 1777
www.sydneytheatre.com.au
All Tickets: $25 (transaction fees may apply)
More info: www.australianpoetryslam.com

Imagine the Hilltop Hoods mashed with Obama, a line of Paul Kelly, a few pinches of Judith Lucy, and a tiny test-tube of Les Murray all vying for audience love and a writer's tour of Asia worth up to $11,000. The mightiest, tightest spoken-word artists from every corner of Australia bound on to the Sydney Theatre stage with blood, sweat and poetry.
With 32 heats in regions across the country, The Australian Poetry Slam unearths thousands of new writers every year.

This year the audience at the National Final – 5 December 2010 at 5.00pm, at the STC will choose one Slam Champion to represent Australia and perform their work at the Bookworm International Literary Festival in China and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali.

Box Office: (02) 9250 1777
www.sydneytheatre.com.au
All Tickets: $25 (transaction fees may apply)
More info: www.australianpoetryslam.com
(National Final – 5 December 2010 at 5.00pm)

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19th Nov. Adelaide: ‘Eat My Pink Poetry Shorts’ -WordFEAST

Event: Eat My Pink Poetry Shorts!!! Free Poetry Reading by Local & Interstate Queeros. Poets Bold & Brazen read their Whippits, Snippets feed you their Chicken Nuggets, Original Recipe Haiku & stun you with their Brilliant Brevity.
Venue: The Patio - FEAST Hub
Address: @ The Patio, Light Square - Adelaide
Date: Friday 19th November 2010
Time: 7.00 pm
WordFEAST

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In Woollahra 20th November – Local Writers’ Festival
The Woollahra Local Writers Festival is coming up on Saturday November 20 from 10am-3pm.

The Local Writers' Word Festivall is on this Saturday November 20 from 10am-3pm at Woollahra Council Chambers, 536 New South Head Road, Double Bay. (near Redleaf Pool)

Special guest speakers include:
• Popular writer and broadcaster Richard Glover will talk on finding inspiration in the everyday for his best-selling works of non-fiction
• Literary agent Lyn Tranter, proprietor of Australian Literary Management, will share her experience in the publishing industry
• Author and critic Michael Wilding will share tips and tricks on how to get published and speak of his experience as a fiction writer.
We do hope you and your friends will join us! For tickets and enquiries, please call me on 9391 7100 or email anne-marie.byrne@woollahra.gov.nsw.au

With best regards,
Anne-Marie Byrne, Special Projects
Library and Information Service

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Sat. 20 Nov. Perth Poetry Club with Nandi Chinna
Event: Perth Poetry Club Reading
Special Guest: Nandi Chinna
Date: 20th November
Time: 2-4pm
Venue: at The Moon,
Address: 323 William Street, Northbridge.
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Plus open mike. All welcome. Come and listen.

About Nandi Chinna: Prize-winning poet NANDI CHINNA, who writes in, and about, Western Australia, is Perth Poetry Club's guest this Saturday 20 November at The Moon, 323 William Street, Northbridge, where it all happens from 2 to 4 pm. If you'd like to, please bring something to read on open mike. Otherwise, just come along and listen. All welcome. Nandi will read both before and after the break, so if you want to catch it all, be there at 2.
NANDI CHINNA was born in Adelaide but has been living in WA for 20 years. Her poetry has been published in wide variety of national and international journals. Her first collection of poetry Our Only Guide is Our homesickness was published in the Five Islands Press New Poets publishing program in 2007. She won a Picaro Poetry prize in 2010 for her poetry on the naming of places in Western Australia. She is currently undertaking a PhD at Edith Cowan University, for which she is writing poetry about the lost wetlands of the Perth Metropolitan region.

Perth Poetry Club's November & December lineup:
27 November : Murray Jennings
4 December: Claire Potter (Writer-in-Residence at KSP)
11 December : Neil J Pattinson and Janet Jackson – last gig for 2010
Break: 18 December, 25 December, 1 January 2011
8 January 2011: - we're back! Guest TBA

Other events in Perth Poetry:
• Spring in the Valley (unauthorized) Brunch; 2010, was a successful GiG! $226.70 was passed on to George, at Starlight Children's Foundation Australia.Thanks for the support from the poetry community of Perth, including regulars from "Perth Poetry Club", for participating in the "Throw coin'z for the Kid'z" poetry reading'z. We appreciate immensely the generosity of all that attended. Neil, Helen, Julie and Al
• On Monday December 6, Voicebox presents: An International Human Rights Day Cultural Event (Guest lineup: Alf Taylor, Afief Ismail, Abdu Katabye, Lily Chan and the WAZA Multicultural Musical Group), at Clancy’s Fish Pub, Cantonment Street Fremantle, 7.30pm for a 7.45 start. Cost: Donation $5.00/$3.00. Contact; Nandi Chinna 9331 3104 chinnnandi@hotmail.com
Perth Poetry Club, where slams meet sonnets.
Info, contact info & artist bios: www.perthpoetryclub.com
perthpoetryclub@gmail.com 0406 624 578

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21st Nov. Newtown Library – Cathy Bray reading from her chapbook ‘The Owl’ and reflecting on ‘Mad Woman’s Breakfast’

Event: poetry reading with Cathy Bray, from her 2010 chapbook ‘The Owl’ (from Picaro Press)
Date: Sunday 21st November
Time: 2.00 – 3.30 pm
Venue: Newtown Library, Gallery Level
Address: 8-10 Brown Street, Newtown

FREE EVENT - BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Please tel. : (02) 8512 4250

Cathy Bray – poetry reading mainly from her 2010 chapbook ‘The Owl’ (from Picaro Press) and reading New York poems and reflections on her show ‘Mad Woman’s Breakfast. Eat my Bush!’ which broached Australian ambivalence towards America, explored with 15 of her own poems in a ‘poetry salon gone mad’ at Madam Fling Flong in Newtown for the Sydney Fringe festival.

Thanks to Steve Mitchell, Newtown Library Team Leader and the City of Sydney Libraries.

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Wed 24th Nov. Live Poets @ Don Bank with Jim Low & Brian Bell
‘Poems of Your Blood’s Country’
Date: Wednesday, November 24
Time: doors open from 7.30 pm
Event: Live Poets @ Don Bank
Venue: Don Bank Museum
Address: 6 Napier St,
North Sydney
Entry: $7 entry includes supper and drinks.

During the evening there will be scenes from the life of HENRY LAWSON IN NORTH SYDNEY courtesy of the North Sydney Heritage Centre Walk and Talk Series. The loose theme this month will be: Poems of Your Blood's Country. There will be several reflections on the Australian way of expression throughout the evening.

SPECIAL GUESTS: Jim Low and Brian Bell
The Open Section features : Poems of Your Blood's Country.

About Jim Low and Brian Bell...
JIM LOW from the Blue Mountains will launch his new folk CD: Above the Creek Bed.
Warren Fahey has said of Jim's music: 'it is an important link to the country and its unique
culture'.
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bush poet, storyteller and social satirist: BRIAN BELL - past winner of the Gulgong Henry Lawson Award and the Will Ogilvie Prize - will regale us with his country take on contemporary issues. In his (in)famous poem: EFTPOS Brian presented 18 definitions of the term.
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As always there is an Open Section for writers and musicians. The loose theme this month will be: Poems of Your Blood's Country. There will be several reflections on the Australian way of expression throughout the evening.

The Open Section features: the Poetry of the First Peoples - the tradition of Oral Poetry and its Role.
Alternatively: anyone is welcome to recite, sing, tell a story or play an instrument.
Doors open 7.30 pm. $7 entry includes supper and drinks.
Further info: Danny Gardner (02) 9896 6956 Mobile: 0422 263 373 or at:
dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au

Doors open 7.30 pm. $7 entry includes supper and drinks.
Further details: (02) 9896 6956 Mobile 0422 263 373 or at:
dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au

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In Sydney – RhiZomic Poetry end-of-year-party with Lyn Harding and Nigel Roberts. Wed. November 24
Poetry Party and open-mic.
Featuring: GUEST POETS: Nigel Roberts & Lyn Harding

Date: Wednesday November 24 - last Wed of the month (this time it’s the 4th Wednesday)
Time: 7-9 PM
Event: RhiZomiC Poetry (the last Wednesday of every month)
Venue: Kerrie Lowe Gallery
Address: 49 King St. Newtown
You are cordially invited to RhizomiC Poetry's end of year Party
Featuring: Nigel Roberts & Lyn Harding

Lyn Harding was born in Texas in 1938 and came to Australia in 1977. He was head Librarian at the Australian Defence Force Academy until retirement in 1998. He has published 2 books of verse: Dancing on the Drainboard (1993) and Australia Suite (1998). Another book is due out shortly.
Lyn lives in Sydney.

Nigel Roberts is well known for his lack of interesting hobbies . However he arrived in Balmain in 1969 and participated in the local blood sport , then known as poetry. His modest success here was promoted by the editng , printing & stapling of .. Free/Poetry , News & Weather, Packaged Deal... and others of the late sixties early seventies little mag revolution.
Roberts says that he took up poetry as tool to examine his own life .. and while he was at it ... the lives of others. In doing so he has published three collections : In Casablanca / for the waters (1977) Steps for Astaire ( 1984 ) & Deja vu Tours (1995 ). This year he has edited, with Martin Edmond , Steal Away Boy - The Collected Poems of David Mitchell for Auckland University Press.
Roberts Selected & New poems should be in the hands of his publisher next year.

Kerrie Lowe and Elisabeth Johnson
Kerrie Lowe Gallery
49 - 51 King St, Newtown 2042
Phone - 9550 4433 / Fax - 9550 1996
Web - www.kerrielowe.com
Mon-Sat 10am - 5.30 pm / Thurs till 7

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Final Friday Reading – 26 November: Christmas Omnibus Reading
Friday, November 26 at 7:00pm

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Saturday 27th November – EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
EGM of the Poets Union Inc. at
Club Swans, 28 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross. 11.00 am -1.00 pm

NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
OF THE MEMBERS OF THE POETS UNION INC

Incorporated Association No Y1945602
(The Poets Union Inc is a not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity.)

Date: Saturday, 27 November 2010
Time: 11.00 am – 1 .00 pm
Venue: Level 2, Club Swans,
Address: 28 Darlinghurst Rd, Kings Cross
Directions: turn left when you come out of Kings Cross station - cross the road and walk along Darlinghurst Road towards the El Alamein Fountain – Club Swans is before the Fountain on your right and next door to the old Bayswater Brasserie.
Parking: in Ward Ave - parking tickets can be validated at Club Swans so you can park all day for $9).

(A very reasonable lunch may be purchased at the club Bistro afterwards)
(PLEASE see AGENDA on website www.poetsunion.com )

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27 Nov. Poetry: A Practical Workshop with Peter Skrzynecki
(NSW Writers’ Centre in Glebe Library)
Event: POETRY: A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP
Poet: With Peter Skrzynecki (NSW Writers’ Centre Course no. - 10SKRZ11)
Date: Saturday 27 November, 10am - 4pm
Venue: Glebe Library
Address: cnr Glebe Point Road and Wigram Road, Glebe
Cost: Full Price - $140, members $100, Concession members $85
Bookings email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au

About PETER SKRZYNECKI has published seventeen volumes, including nine volumes of poetry, two novels and a memoir. He has received several awards for his contributions to Australian literature, including the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1972, the Captain Cook Bicentenary Poetry Prize, the Henry Lawson Short Story Award, an Order of Cultural Merit from the Polish government in 1989 and, in 2002, an Order of Australia. His most recent publication is Old/New World: New and Selected Poems (UQP, 2007).

Peter Skrzynecki is the author of nine volumes of poetry including the award-winning Headwaters, There, Behind the Lids and Immigrant Chronicle. Join him for a practical, round-table discussion of your work in a friendly, supportive environment.
About the workshop:
Here’s how it works: each student will bring in no more than 5 poems of no more than 30 lines each. Make sure you don’t include your name anywhere on the poem. Poems will then be discussed by the class, with the author remaining anonymous, providing constructive feedback and insight into each work.

We’ll keep these three essentials in mind:

1. Appreciation: Poetry in our daily lives, the attempt to try and understand why we read it and try to write it. What kinds of poetry appeal to you? Why do we continue to enjoy it above other genres?
2. Encouragement: A positive approach that hopes to establish confidence in writers and readers. There is nothing dogmatic or prescriptive in this course. Travel at your own pace without anxiety or embarrassment. Allow yourself to ‘be’ yourself, whatever that means to you.
3. Authenticity: What does it mean to have an ‘authentic’ voice? Is there such a thing? How do you/we achieve this in a world of rapid change, constant distractions from the media and literary theorists?

Expected Learning Outcomes
You will receive a greater appreciation of your attempts to write poetry; the knowledge that you are not alone in trying to express the inexpressible. If you are a beginner this course does not guarantee to turn you into a poet.

Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Student Requirements: Bring no more than 5 poems, each no longer than, say, 30 lines, with 12 copies of each. Leave them anonymous. Please note, we cannot guarantee that all of your poems will be read.
Food: Tea and coffee making facilities will be provided. Course participants are advised to bring their own lunch.
Size: 15 max

NSW Writers’ Centre
PO Box 1056, Rozelle NSW 2039
Phone (02) 9555 9757 Fax (02) 9818 1327
Email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au
Website: www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
Office hours: Monday to Saturday, 9am-5pm

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Newcastle Poetry Prize Weekend of Poetry
26-28th November – Hunter Writers’ Centre

The program for the Newcastle Poetry Prize Weekend of Poetry is now finalised:

Event: NPP Weekend of Poetry
Venue: The revamped exercise yard at the Lockup, now featuring a roof and a floor!
Address: 90 Hunter St, Newcastle.
When? Fri 26th – Sun 28th November
Who? Poets from far and wide, members, guests, postgrads, poetry-loving public.

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FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER

1. Opening Night: Fri 26th Nov – Opening Night (launch of Science Made Marvellous anthologies)
Time: 5.30pm – The Lockup.
Event: The Weekend kicks off with the opening of ‘In the Detail’ with wine, cheese, readings from the Science Made Marvellous Anthologies, an exhibition of the beautiful drawings, an announcement of the winners and an unveiling of the poems.
Free event

2. Opening Night: Fri 26th Nov – Opening Night (Talya Rubin performs her new poetry play)
Time: 7pm – The Lockup.
Event: Talya Rubin performs her new poetry play, ‘Of the Causes of Wonderful Things’.
Entry: Tickets $25.

Talya has toured with her original solo performance pieces, Ariadne’s Thread and The Girl With No Hands, to festivals in Adelaide, Melbourne, Montreal, Prague and Toronto. Both shows received five-star reviews, played to sold-out houses and were named one of the top ten plays in the Montreal Fringe. This is theatre and poetry at its best. Tickets $25

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SATURDAY 27TH NOVEMBER:

3. Saturday 27th November - Poetry Panel: What Poets do in Private
Time: 10am – 12 noon
Entry fee: Poetry panels $10 each

The creative process of three different poets. Why are they poets and who are they really? This panel would cover topics such as routine, methodology, and the craft of poetry.

4. Saturday 27th November - Poetry Panel: What Poets do in Public
Time: 1pm - 3pm
Entry fee: Afternoon poetry panels $10 each

Can you have a career as a poet? How has your career as a poet unfolded?
This panel would cover topics such as Publication, Competitions, Festivals and Readings, and Auxiliary activities.

5. Saturday 27th November - announcement of the winners of the Newcastle Poetry Prize
and the launch of the 2010 anthology
Time: 6pm – The Lockup exercise yard
Join us for the announcement of the winners of the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the launch of the 2010 anthology. 6pm – 8pm
Free entry : Refreshments provided.

6. . Saturday 27th November - Dinner at the Customs House
Time : 8pm.
Cost: dinner and drinks at your own expense.
Let’s keep the party going with a long table at the Customs House for dinner and drinks (own expense).

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SUNDAY 28TH NOVEMBER

7. Sunday 28th November - Poets’ lunch and readings from the anthology
Time: 12 noon - 3pm
Venue : The Lockup,
Address: 90 Hunter St, Newcastle

Poets’ lunch and readings from the anthology. A relaxed lunch in our new shaded exercise yard. A chance to hear the shortlisted poets read their work, lounge around with a glass of wine and chat about the weekend past. Taxis to the airport from here.

www.newcastlepoetryprize.com

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Australian Poetry Ltd seeks a NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT to be based in Melbourne applications by 26 Nov.

Australian Poetry seeks a part time Administration Assistant. The successful applicant will have a track record that demonstrates the ability to maintain financial records, be a strong team player, manage database and record systems and provide administrative support to diverse projects and activities.
The position will be 3-4 days a week to be negotiated and located at the National Office based at the Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne, commencing February 2011.
To apply : email admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au for the full selection criteria outlined in the position description.
Deadline for applications is Friday November 26th 5pm.

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Sun. 28th November – Brett Whiteley Studio: Poets Union
monthly reading – guest poet will be Maggie Walsh
The Poets Union monthly poetry reading is held on the fourth Sunday of the month. This month, Sunday 28th November, at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Sydney.

Date: Sunday 28 November
Guest poet : Maggie Wals
Venue: Brett Whiteley Studio
Address: 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills (off Devonshire Street, via Esther Street and Esther Lane)
Time: 2.00 - 3.30 pm
Free entry. Open Mic included.

Maggie Walsh
Maggie Walsh is a poet from Palm Island in far north Queensland. She considers herself an elder. She writes on her experience as a child growing up in the dormitory system and the light of Indigenous people. She writes powerful poetry and lyrics or song and is a natural performer. She will have you in laughter or in tears with her ability to take you to places through spoken word.
The Poets Union thanks the Brett Whiteley Studio staff and the Art Gallery of NSW for their support and we thank Rosnay wines for their wonderful wine and sponsorship.

Convenor: Angela Stretch for Poets Union Inc. Enquiries for 2010 : 0438 898 578

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Notification of Special General Meeting – of the Australian Poetry Centre
(SGM) – 28th November, 2010
An SGM of the Australian Poetry Centre will be held:
Sunday 28th November 2010 at 6.00pm
On level 4 of The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale St., Melbourne
The agenda is attached.

Please confirm your attendance, or have your queries attended to, by calling (03) 9094 7826 or emailing admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au

If you are unable to attend the meeting and wish your apologies to be recorded in the minutes please let the secretary (Lyn Hatherly) know at the above contact details. admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au

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In Sydney Mon 29th November – Sydney Poetry bookclub meets to discuss Jennifer Harrison’s ‘Colombine- New and Selected Poems’

Book for discussion on 29th November: Colombine by Jennifer Harrison (Black Pepper Press)
Date: Monday, November 29
Time: 7.00 – 9.00 pm

New Venue: upstairs, Berkelouw Books, Newtown
Address: 6 O'Connell Street , Newtown
Directions: O’Connell St is located on the right hand side when coming along King St from Sydney University. Look for the store T2 which is on the corner of King St and O’Connell St. Berkelouw Newtown is located 15 metres from King St.

About Sydney Poetry bookclub – the next www.sydneypoetry.com bookclub will meet in a new venue at 7 pm on Monday 29 November at Berkelouw Books in Newtown to discuss Jennifer Harrison’s collection, Colombine.

What you need to do between now and then: read the book (Colombine), develop an opinion.
About the venue (Berkelouw Books) – meet upstairs at the bookshop Cafe.

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In Brisbane launch of Mark Tredinnick’s ‘Fire Diary’
Event: Launch of ‘Fire Diary’ by Mark Tredinnick
To be launched by: Nike Bourke
Venue: The Avid Reader bookstore in West End, will host the Brisbane launch of Fire Diary
Date: Monday 29 November,
Time: 6 pm till 8 pm. Nike Bourke will do the honours there.
Bookings: Please book through Avid Reader: http://www.avidreader.com.au/index.php?

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30th Nov. WordinHand Pilot screening of the May FriendinHand readings down at the Harold Park Hotel
Message from Jack Peck, WordinHand Convener ...

G’Day WordinHand’ers,
I encourage everyone to come down if you can. There will be a Q&A session after the screening. Once again, and not for the last time, a great big WordinHand “Thank You” to John Lagerlow and his crew who made this happen...

Event Name: WordinHand Pilot at Harold’s Shorts - screening – preview of 25 minute pilot of WordinHanders reading in May
Venue: The Harold Park Hotel,
Address: 70 Ross Street, Glebe (corner of Wigram Road)
Date: 30th November
Time: 8pm
Contact: Jack Peck
Telephone Number: 04 111 95 009
Email Address: jack@wordinhand.org

About the screening: A surprise package of poets appear in the first public screening of the “WordinHand Pilot” Tuesday evening November 30th during the “Harold’s Shorts - Short Film Festival” at the Harold Park Hotel in Glebe

The heart of any culture lies in the stories that emerge from the people. This oral tradition is alive and well in the upper room of The Friend in Hand hotel in Sydney's Inner West where poets and punters have been gathering since last century. “WordinHand Pilot” is a pilot production that aims to bring these poets into the light.

About the project: “We filmed the evening in May with 3 cameras, interviewed some of the poets in August, and now have a 25-minute pilot ready for TVS. While we are arranging with them for a showing, the nice folks at “Harolds Shorts – Film Festival” have agreed to give our film its first public airing.
The people in the film represent a wide variety of life experiences. There is humour, anger, disillusionment, whimsy and joy. Each one is infused with sincerity and authenticity. Participants travel from all over Sydney and beyond to join us each month” - Jack Peck, WORDinHAND Convenor
“These stories and poems from the people need a wider audience. That’s why I hope that this little pilot will lead to more filming of the oral tradition and help create a rich resource for the future.” - John Lagerlow, the film’s Producer.
For additional information contact: Jack Peck on 04 111 95 009 or email jack@wordinhand.org

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Wed 1st Dec. Sydney launch of Fire Diary by Mark Tredinnick
Event: Sydney launch of ‘Fire Diary’ by Mark Tredinnick
To be launched by: Judith Beveridge

Date: Wednesday 1st December , 2010
Time: 6.00 for 6.30 pm
Venue: The Friend in Hand Hotel
Address: 58 Cowper Street, Glebe
Published by Puncher & Wattmann – order forms on PU website

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Sat. 4th December... THE BIG POETS UNION POETRY PARTY – DON’T MISS OUT

As you know, the Poets Union is merging with the Australian Poetry Centre to form a new national organisation, Australian Poetry Ltd. So...

HELP US CELEBRATE the end of the year and the beginning of a new poetic era with a FREE SHINDIG at a favourite old Poets Union watering hole, The Friend in Hand Hotel at Glebe.

Free entry! Free drinks! Free food!

Readings, reminiscences, rants, history, comradeship, conversation, music and much more.

All welcome!
Everyone welcome to read ONE poem (TIME PERMITTING)

If you would like to pre-register to read to make sure you get on the bill...email Brook at brookemery@yahoo.com (Subject: your name + Friend in Hand)

Date: Saturday 4th December
Time: 3.00 – 6.00 pm
Venue: The Friend in Hand Hotel
Address: 58 Cowper Street, Glebe

Free entry! Free drinks! Free food!

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5th Dec. NATIONAL FINAL – AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM 2010
– the audience will choose one Slam Champion
NATIONAL FINAL of the AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM 2010
- National Final – 5 December 2010 at 5.00pm

This year the audience at the NATIONAL FINAL at the STC will choose one Slam Champion to represent Australia and perform their work at the Bookworm International Literary Festival in China and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali.

Event: NATIONAL FINAL of the AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM 2010
Date: 5 December 2010 at 5.00pmTime: 5.00 pm
Venue: Sydney Theatre,
Address: 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

Box Office: (02) 9250 1777
www.sydneytheatre.com.au
All Tickets: $25 (transaction fees may apply)
More info: www.australianpoetryslam.com

Imagine the Hilltop Hoods mashed with Obama, a line of Paul Kelly, a few pinches of Judith Lucy, and a tiny test-tube of Les Murray all vying for audience love and a writer's tour of Asia worth up to $11,000. The mightiest, tightest spoken-word artists from every corner of Australia bound on to the Sydney Theatre stage with blood, sweat and poetry.
With 32 heats in regions across the country, The Australian Poetry Slam unearths thousands of new writers every year.

(32 heats and state finals were held in every state leading up to this National Final – 5 December 2010 at 5.00pm)

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7th Dec. – Rocket Readings: guest poets Carol Jenkins, Julie Chevalier, Dael Allison. + Rocket Prize Presented by South Coast Writers Centre

Event: Rocket Readings
Date: 7 December 2010
Time: 6-8pm
Where: Phoenix Theatre,
Address: 26 Bridge Street, Coniston
(corner of Gladstone Avenue and Bridge Street, next to Coniston Railway Station)
Free entry. All Welcome
More information: 02 4228 0151 or scwc@1earth.net

Guest poets: Carol Jenkins, Julie Chevalier and Dael Allison
PLUS
the Rocket Readings Open Section (3 minute limit)
AND
the Rocket Readings prize.
Not to be missed! Rocket Readings is presented by the South Coast Writers Centre and supported by Arts NSW and Wollongong City Council.

When: 6-8pm, Tuesday 7 December 2010
Where: Phoenix Theatre, 26 Bridge Street, Coniston (corner of Gladstone Avenue and Bridge Street, next to Coniston Railway Station)
Free entry. All Welcome
More information: 02 4228 0151 or scwc@1earth.net

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7th December WordinHand @ The Friend in Hand
In Glebe – WordinHand @ the FriendinHand

Event: WordinHand is Sydney’s premier regular and enduring poetry / spoken word event, providing open mike opportunities for voices directly from the Sydney community plus a high-energy poetry slam every month in addition to a featured poet or two.

WordinHand's Heat of the Australian Poetry Slam
Date: Tuesday 7th December (first Tuesdays except January)
Time: 7:30 for 8:00 PM.
Venue: The Friend in Hand Hotel
Address: 58 Cowper Street Glebe
Tel. (02) 9660 2326.
Entry by donation: $10/$5.

Tuesday December 7th
WordinHand's end-of-year All Open Mike Night. If you would like 10 minutes on the stage that evening please let me know. Pre-bookings are limited as the evening encourages substantial, unscripted and spontaneous contributions from the audience.

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Hunter Writers’ Centre – Christmas celebration fundraiser
11th December
There is change in the air at the HWC in the lead up to the end of the year and Newcastle Poetry Prize. 2011 will see some significant changes to the running of the centre and you can be involved.

Please keep an eye out for your ‘Letter from the Board’ in the coming weeks and pencil in the evening of Saturday 11th Dec for an HWC extravaganza/ Christmas Party/ FUNdraiser. We are set to end 2010 with a bang!

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2 pm on 12 Dec. – launch from Vagabond Press Rare Objects series of chapbooks...4 poets: Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jen Jewel Brown, Lisa Bellear and Stuart Cook

Hello Dear Friends and Poetry Admirers,

Just to let you know:
Event: launch of Vagabond Press – Rare Objects series of chapbooks

4 Poets and their collections :
- Ali Cobby Eckermann launches a new collection of poems titled Kami (Grandmother)
- Jen Jewel Brown launches her chapbook Great Southern
- Lisa Bellear Vagabond Press proudly presents a retrospect of Lisa’s poems titled Aboriginal
Country, edited by Jen Jewel Brown
- Stuart Cooke launches his new poetry book

Date: Sunday December 12th 2010
Time : 2 PM
Venue: Friend in Hand Hotel
Address: 58 Cowper Street Glebe
Entry: free – all welcome

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Sydney Def Poetry Jam #3 - Mersey Sound Collective
- Sunday night 12th December 6 pm

Event: A Sunday night of poetry performed by a myriad of gifted wordsmiths
from Mersey Sound Collective

Location: Studio 205, Hibernian House, Elizabeth Street, SURRY HILLS
Date: Sunday, December 12 • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Featuring: Old Men of Moss Mountain, Bravo Child, Tom Keily, Omar Musa, Adam Everill , Randall Stephens, Steve Smart, Farid Farid, Liam Frost, Pious Poet, Cj Shaw

MORE TBC + OPEN MIC

About Mersey Sound Collective We are a small umbrella group of Sydney folk dedicated to uniting local poets, artists, performers and musicians. We organize monthly open-mic jams which give people the opportunity to express themselves in a versatile space and a friendly supportive atmosphere. We aim to inspire collaboration, fusion and cross-pollination. We also conspire to network with other like-minded creative people!

Mersey Sound are currently looking for poets, artists, musicians, performers and everyone in between

Contact : merseysoundcollective@gmail.com

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14th Dec. Poetry at the Gods with joanne burns and Robyn Rowland
Tues December 14: Joanne Burns (Sydney),Robyn Rowland (Torquay, Victoria) will be the featured poets at The Gods' Cafe.

Venue:The Gods cafe and wine bar at ANU, Canberra
Address: The Gods Café/Bar,
ANU Arts Centre.
Directions: The Gods Café/Bar is in the ANU Arts Centre - across the quadrangle from the Student Union near Sullivans Creek.

About the guest poets: Tues Dec 14 Joanne Burns (Sydney),Robyn Rowland (Torquay, Victoria)

Dinner: Light meals are available from 6pm.
Please book at The Gods on 6248 5538.
Patrons intending to eat are asked to arrive by 6.30 to ensure that the readings can begin at 8pm.

Poetry reading from 8.00 pm
Entry fee: $5.
Seating is limited to 80 people.
To be sure of hearing a particular poet it is advisable to eat at the venue beforehand but ‘listening only’ 'non-eating' seats can also be booked.

Book directly by phoning the Gods Café/Bar
Tel.6248 5538
More info:
Geoff Page - 8/40 Leahy Close, Narrabundah ACT 2604 Australia
+61 2 6239 4027 0400 800 340
What’s on next at The Gods
Sponsors: Aldo Giurgola, Collaery Lawyers, Daltons Books, z4 Wines, artsACT

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Tas 28th Dec. – 3 Jan Rainforest Writing, Tasmania
‘in the pin-drop silence of the Forest of Giants’
Date: 28 Dec- 3 Jan:
Event: Rainforest Writing, Tasmania

'Rejuvenating, invigorating, life changing."
Join our New Year's week-long walking and writing meditation in the Tarkine Wilderness.
Spend 4 days in the pin drop silence of the Forest of the Giants then travel down river to the wild Tarkine Coast.
Tutor: Jan Cornall
Use each day's meditative writing exercises with tutor Jan Cornall to develop your current work or start anew. Supported camping and walking with qualified guides.

Photos, itinerary, bookings: www.intotheblue.com.au or phone 0415 921 303

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Next January: Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2011 : Creative work by the sea
The Australian Poetry Centre, Poets Union and South Coast Writers Centre present
Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2011
Creative work by the sea

A unique, immersive creative development experience for poets, the Wollongong Poetry Workshop is an intensive eight days of workshops, lectures, seminars and readings in the company of other people with a passion for poetry. Workshop tutors for 2011 include Michael Sharkey and Susan Hampton, with a third tutor and guest lecturers to be announced.

The Wollongong Poetry Workshop is ideal for emerging poets who want to access their full potential as poets, and for published poets who are ready to discover new dimensions to their practice. The Wollongong Poetry Workshop is Australia's premier creative development experience for poets. Past participants have gone on to win major prizes and publish award-winning books.

In 2011, the Wollongong Poetry Workshop will be held in the unique, secluded setting of the Clifton School of Arts, 30 minutes drive from Wollongong and an hour from Sydney. Built in 1911, this atmospheric little building clings to the escarpment at one end of the Seacliff bridge and is accessible by car, bus and train, and close to free parking.

Dates: 4 to 11 January, 2011
Venue: Clifton School of Arts,
Address: 338 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Clifton NSW 2515 (just north of Wollongong)

Registrations now CLOSED - workshop full.
Cost includes: lunch and morning and afternoon tea.
Registration and more information: please email wpoetryw@chariot.com.au or phone South Coast Writers Centre on 02 4228 0151.

Places are strictly limited. Previous participants will be automatically accepted into the workshop. If you have not previously attended the Wollongong Poetry Workshop, please send up to 10 pages of poetry and a CV or bio of no more than a page to wpoetryw@chariot.com.au.

If you are travelling from outside the area accommodation information is available from Tourism Wollongong - http://www.tourismwollongong.com/

Stayz has a list of rental houses and B&Bs, http://www.stayz.com.au

and there is a list of backpacker-style accommodation here -
http://www.about-australia.com/travel-guides/new-south-wales/illawarra/accommodation/backpacker/

A number of the local real estate agents also provide a holiday letting service.

If you are keen to share accommodation with other participants do contact us and we will do our best to put you in touch with those in the same position.

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7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival January 17-22, 2011,
Delray Beach, Florida
7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 17-22, 2011 in Delray Beach, Florida.

Take another look at the workshop descriptions for our featured poets, Stuart Dischell, Jane Hirshfield, Thomas Lux, Heather McHugh, Vijay Seshadri, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C.D. Wright, and Dean Young, and apply today.

Remember, this year, we inaugurate a Special Guest Poet Reading, following the annual gala on January 19. Robert Pinsky, former U. S. Poet Laureate, will read solo and accompanied by a trio of jazz musicians. This very special reading will be unlike any other we've presented at previous festivals.

The festival will be topped off with performances by D. Blair and Taylor Mali, superlative spoken word artists, who will bring the house down. Then you can dance the night away at our DiscO'Hara party!
Don't miss this opportunity to focus on your work with some of America's finest poets.

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COMPETITIONS, PRIZES and SUBMISSIONS
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Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) 2010 Literary Awards
Submissions due 30th November

Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Incorporated
2010 NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS
Entries open: 1 September 2010
Entries close: 30 November 2010

Please direct all enquiries/correspondence to: awards@writers.asn.au
OR:
Awards Coordinator,
FAW 2010 National Literary Awards,
The Hive Creative Centre Inc.,
710 Station Street, Box Hill, VIC, 3128

Entry forms : are enclosed with The Australian Writer.
Entry forms They can be downloaded on www.writers.asn.au

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Islet on-line magazine. Summer Issue submissions due date extended to November 30 – theme: Islands
Islet and Island would like to announce a change to our publication schedule. We will now be publishing our islands-themed issues in autumn (late March/early April) and will be launching these themed issues through the Tasmanian Writers' Centre, during the 2011 Ten Days on the Island festival.

We are still calling for submissions, and would be very pleased if you would consider forwarding this information to potential contributors, via your member emails and/or community/professional/personal networks.

The new closing date is TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30 -- check the Islet submissions page for more details.
Publication opportunity for emerging writers and visual artists
Islet (www.islet.com.au) is pleased to announce the theme for its summer issue, and is now calling for submissions addressing the theme of ISLANDS.
We invite you to consider the theme imaginatively, broadly, and figuratively.

Submissions close: Tuesday November, 30
Email to : Submissions should be emailed to the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au with ‘summer issue submission’ in the subject line.
All of Islet’s standard submission guidelines still apply, including length
Poetry: poetry must be under 25 lines, reviews under 400 words, and fiction under 600 words.
Pay rates: See the Islet submissions page http://www.islet.com.au/submissions for pay rates

Please note that non-themed submissions will continue to be received for future issues.
Islet is funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council, and supported by the University of Tasmania.

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Submissions invited for the Blackened Billy Verse Competition due 30th November for Tamworth Poetry Readers’ Group

THE BLACKENED BILLY VERSE COMPETITION - ATTENTION WRITERS OF BUSH VERSE!
The 2011 Blackened Billy Verse Competition will be opening on September 1.

This is regarded as one of the most prestigious BUSH POETRY competitions in Australia.
First prize is $500 plus the famous BLACKENED BILLY TROPHY.
Second prize is $250 and third $150.

Bush poetry is a traditional type of verse written with rhyme and rhythm that reflects the Australian way of life. The genre has widened in recent years to encompass modern living in both the city and the bush. 2010 winner, Ellis Campbell, wrote on a subject which was very close to our hearts last year in a moving poem called “The Arsonist”.

Tamworth Poetry Reading Group welcomes entries from new and old writers. Entry forms will be available on September 1. Please write to Jan Morris PO Box 3001, West Tamworth or email janmorris@northnet.com.au

Entries close November 30 and the winners will be announced at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 2011.
Contact: Organisers of The Blackened Billy Verse Competition and
The Country Energy Tamworth Bush Poetry Competition
Mail to: PO BOX 3001 WEST TAMWORTH 2340

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Peter Porter Poetry Prize submissions invited and due 1st December
PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE

Entry to the seventh annual Australian Book Review poetry prize – renamed the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, in memory of the late Australian poet – is now open.

First prize: $4000
Shortlisted poems: $250
Closing date: 1st December 2010
ENTRY FEE : $15 (ABR SUBSCRIBERS) AND $20 FOR NON-SUBSCRIBERS

The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry, and guarantees winners wide exposure through publication in ABR.

PREVIOUS WINNERS: Stephen Edgar (2005), Judith Bishop (2006), Alex Skovron (2007)
Ross Clark (2008), Tracy Ryan (2009), Anthony Lawrence (2010)

The guidelines and entry form are now available on the ABR website http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/ and are attached on the Poets Union website
http://www.poetsunion.com/node/879

- Poets must reside in Australia or be Australian citizens living overseas.
- Each entry must be a single poem of no more than 100 lines.
- Multiple entries are permitted, and all poems will be judged anonymously.
- A shortlist comprising a maximum of six poems will be announced and those poems published in the March 2011 issue of ABR.
- The winner will be announced in the April 2011 issue.

Peter Rose, Editor Australian Book Review
Tel: (03) 9429 6700
Email: editor@australianbookreview.com.au
www.australianbookreview.com.au

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Southerly – India Issue submissions invited & due 1st Dec. 2010
December 1st submissions due for Southerly – India issue
We're looking for your brilliant fiction, poetry and essays, on India-Australia literary relations, or with an India-Australia theme.
Deadline is December 1st. 11.30 pm

By Mail to: Southerly, English Dept, Woolley Building
University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Please send to the address above,
or email southerlyjournal@gmail.com

Please check our blog for submission guidelines: www.southerlyjournal.wordpress.com

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Australian Poetry’s 2011 Poet in Residence Program (supported by the Pratt Foundation) –applications by 5 pm Friday, December 3

ANNOUNCING
Australian Poetry’s 2011 Poet in Residence Program (supported by the Pratt Foundation)

“A poet names the unnameable, points at frauds, takes sides, starts arguments, shapes the world and stops it going to sleep.” Salman Rushdie

Calling all Australian poets!
Australian Poetry invites you to apply for its 2011 Poet in Residence Program, thanks to the generosity of the Pratt Foundation.

Due to Australian Poetry being a national organization, poets can apply from anywhere in Australia. We will provide the selected poet with $20,000 to work as a poet in their home city, wherever they happen to live in Australia, from March 1st until October 31st, 2011.

The 2011 Poet in Residence will spend time writing poetry, reading publicly, attending events, contributing to publications and working with Australian Poetry, and relevant associated organizations, to be an ambassador for poetry, promoting their own work, Australian Poetry and the art form.

Application Process All applicants must:

- have published at least one collection by a reputable publishing house (Don’t send the books, but please list them on your CV)
- include a current CV (no longer than two pages)
- submit a one-page document outlining a) what they hope to achieve from the residency and b) what they feel they can bring to the opportunity
- provide the names and contact details of 2 referees

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5pm Friday December 3rd, 2010

Applicants will be notified by mid-December 2010.
For further information please contact Australian Poetry at admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au or call the office on (03) 9094 7826
Please send applications via email by the due date to: admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5pm Friday December 3rd, 2010

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Call for poems for Hunter Writers’ Centre monthly newsletter
Hunter Writers’ Centre will be accepting poems or short stories for the HWC monthly newsletter, so if you have something you would like published, send it in to us at hwcadmin@optusnet.net.au

Poems can be up to 30 lines, and short stories no longer than 1000 words. Excerpts from novels are also welcome. Please send documents as attachments in size 12 TNR font, and have HWC submission in the subject line of your email. They can't pay for submissions but it's a good opportunity to read local talent.

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RED ROOM COMPANY calls for submissions for SMH ‘Extra’ section
(up to 2 poems of 20 lines maximum – new and emerging poets encouraged to apply)

THE RED ROOM COMPANY IS CALLING ON POETS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA TO SUBMIT POEMS FOR PUBLICATION IN THE SUN-HERALD ‘EXTRA’ SECTION.
This new series of poems will have a focus on younger and emerging writers trying to make a name for themselves as poets. We want all styles of poetry, so that readers can get a taste of the full palate of current Australian poetry. The only limitation is space.
Submit as attachment: Please send all submissions as a simple Word .doc attachment to
Email : text@redroomcompany.org
Subject: ‘Sun Herald Extra Submission’ in the subject header.
Maximum two submissions per poet, and please, remember the size constraints when choosing work
Length: 20 lines is about the max.
REDROOM COMPANY website www.redroomcompany.org

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Mascara Literary Review (Mascara Poetry has expanded! )
Mascara Literary Review is now accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction and essays.
Mascara Literary Review is an online literary journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian (as well as Australian and Indigenous) writers.

In our current issue (Issue 7), Judith Beveridge is the featured poet. Anthony Lawrence will be the featured poet in Issue 8.

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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2011 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize submissions now open

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Submissions invited for Anaphora Literary Press
Message to the Poets Union APC and the new Australian Poetry Ltd members from Phillip Ellis:

“Anna Faktorovich of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal has informed me that she's starting a new press, and that she is interested in strong, full-length poetry collections. I include the following from their website:

"Anaphora Literary Press: Our Press will be listed in the upcoming edition of the Writer's Market and on www.WritersMarket.com We now accept submissions of book-length manuscripts from authors around the world. The submissions should be in English, with MLA citations (if it
is an academic book). Genres we hope to publish: academic and scholarly books, drama, novels and novellas, poetry, autobiography, biography, journals, conference proceedings, edited dissertations, and other genres. “

Please email submissions directly to the Publisher: Anna Faktorovich, at pennsylvaniajournal@gmail.com Profits will be shared with the author for single-author books."

http://sites.google.com/site/pennsylvaniajournal/

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Poetry: The Indelible Stencil project - expressions of interest sought for regional poets to be part of a creative team
Poetry: The Indelible Stencil. A message from Lizz Murphy: Are you a poet living in the Upper Lachlan or Wollondilly shires of SE NSW?

Lizz Murphy coordinator of a major regional poetry as public art project, Poetry: The Indelible Stencil, would like to hear from emerging and established poets based specifically in the Upper Lachlan and Wollondilly shires in SE NSW.

I still have one or two openings on the creative team. The project is starting up now with completion of public works planned for mid-2011. To express interest please send a bio, the town you live in and contact details to lizzmurphy@tadaust.org.au in the first instance. I will send you more info at that point. Poetry: The Indelible Stencil is a partnership with Southern Tablelands Arts (STARTS) and eight local governments. It is supported by NSW Regional Arts Fund and CASP.

I am particularly interested in hearing from poets from the following postcodes:

Wollondilly (postcodes are a loose guide: 2560-2574)
• Appin 2560
• Bargo 2574
• Belimbla Park 2570
• Brownlow Hill 2570
• Buxton 2571
• Camden Park 2570
• Cawdor 2570
• Couridjah 2571
• Douglas Park 2569
• Glenmore 2570
• Menangle 2568
• Mount Hunter 2570
• Mowbray Park 2571
• Nattai and the Burragorang Valley 2570
• Oakdale 2570
• Pheasants Nest 2574
• Picton 2571
• Razorback 2571
• Silverdale 2572
• Tahmoor 2573
• The Oaks 2570
• Theresa Park 2570
• Thirlmere 2572
• Warragamba 2572
• Wilton 2571
• Yanderra 2574
• Yerranderie ?

Upper Lachlan (postcodes are a loose guide: 2580-2583)
Crookwell 2583
Gunning 2581
Dalton “
Grabben Gullen 2583
Collector 2581
Taralga 2580
Binda 2583
Bigga & Grabine “
Tuena & Laggan “

Lizz Murphy
Project Coordinator for
Poetry: The Indelible Stencil
PO Binalong NSW 2584
Phone: 02 6227 4393
Email: lizzmurphy@tadaust.org.au

Working in partnership with Elizabeth Brown Regional Arts Development Officer
Southern Tablelands Arts (STARTS) Phone 4821 7028 Email elizabethbrown@starts.com.au

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Cordite Poetry Review ‘Epic’ 31st issue published December 2009.
Submissions now open for Cordite Poetry Review.
Message from David Prater (Ed) – we are not accepting submissions of haiku or senryu .
Details available at www.cordite.org.au

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Jazz and Poetry section of annotated discography on jazz and literature
- Submissions invited
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 (Peter Newton) 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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The David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education
– calling for registrations for 2011, University of South Australia
Message from Alex Melillo from the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research situated in the University of South Australia. ..

We are currently trying to attract more people into our Australian Studies and Aboriginal Studies programs. We at David Unaipon College are enquiring if your organisation would be able to help us placing an advertisement in your organisation newsletter/publications, display flyers for collection, circulate flyers for us through your organisation, or place flyers on your notice boards? We are more than happy to pay any required fees.

If you are able to help in anyway please contact Alex on 83020558
or email: alex.melillo @unisa.edu.au

Thank you very much for your time and help.

Alex Melillo
Programme Promotions Consultant
David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research
University of South Australia, City West Campus
2nd floor, Yungondi Building
North Terrace,
ADELAIDE SA
Tel: (08) 8302 0558 (08) 8302 0373 Fax: (08) 8302 7034

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e-zines, on-line courses and e-anthologies for poets
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Islet on-line magazine – Summer issue due date for submissions extended to Tues. November 30. Theme: ‘Islands’

Islet and Island would like to announce a change to our publication schedule. We will now be publishing our islands-themed issues in autumn (late March/early April) and will be launching these themed issues through the Tasmanian Writers' Centre, during the 2011 Ten Days on the Island festival.

We are still calling for submissions, and would be very pleased if you would consider forwarding this information to potential contributors, via your member emails and/or community/professional/personal networks.

The new closing date is TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30 -- check the Islet submissions page for more details. Publication opportunity for emerging writers and visual artists.
Islet (www.islet.com.au) is pleased to announce the theme for its summer issue, and is now calling for submissions addressing the theme of ISLANDS. We invite you to consider the theme imaginatively, broadly, and figuratively.

Submissions close: Tuesday November, 30
Email to : Submissions should be emailed to the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au with ‘summer issue submission’ in the subject line.
All of Islet’s standard submission guidelines still apply, including length
Poetry: poetry must be under 25 lines, reviews under 400 words, and fiction under 600 words.
Pay rates: See the Islet submissions page http://www.islet.com.au/submissions for pay rates

Please note that non-themed submissions will continue to be received for future issues.
Islet is funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council, and supported by the University of Tasmania.
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POETICA – ABC Radio National. Saturdays and Thursdays :
Australia-wide Poetry program - Saturdays at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursdays at 3.05 pm
POETICA is presented by BRENT CLOUGH and MIKE LADD - For further details please contact the producers of Poetica: Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271
Or visit the Poetica website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/

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Message from Pennsylvania Literary Journal - Anaphora Literary Press
Message to the Poets Union, APC and Australian Poetry Ltd members from Phillip Ellis:

Anna Faktorovich of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal is starting a new press, and she is interested in strong, full-length poetry collections.

"Anaphora Literary Press: Our Press will be listed in the upcoming edition of the Writer's Market and on www.WritersMarket.com We now accept submissions of book-length manuscripts from authors around the world. The submissions should be in English, with MLA citations (if it is an academic book). Genres we hope to publish: academic and scholarly books, drama, novels and novellas, poetry, autobiography, biography, journals, conference proceedings, edited dissertations, and other genres. “

Please email submissions directly to the Publisher: Anna Faktorovich, at pennsylvaniajournal@gmail.com. Profits will be shared with the author for single-author books."

http://sites.google.com/site/pennsylvaniajournal/

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e-guide on publishing – pdf of 2nd edition still available for $10
and new (3rd) edition of ‘A Decent Proposal’ on its way in Feb. 2011
A Decent Proposal - How to sell your book to an Australian publisher or agent

by Rhonda Whitton and Sheila Hollingworth
(Keesing Press, Australian Society of Authors, 2011)

The third, fully revised edition of this resource book for writers will be available in February 2011. The book will be published in soft cover and e-book versions, and we’ll let you know as soon as stock is available.

In the meantime, the pdf version of the second edition is still available (for $10) from Sheila Hollingworth or www.rhondawhitton.com.au
Sheila Hollingworth, Writer & Cartoonist
Ph/fax 03 5348 2494 Website: www.cartoonsbysheila.com
Blog: http://cartoonsbysheila.wordpress.com

Writing can be a self-absorbing process and emerging authors often overlook the importance of presenting their book to a publisher or agent in a concise, convincing and professional Book Proposal package.

Based on the authors’ own experiences, an industry-wide survey and using various writers’ successful proposals as examples, A Decent Proposal introduces writers to the techniques required to develop a convincing Book Proposal package that will satisfy (yes, and even excite) an Australian publisher or agent.

‘Whether you've completed a fantasy novel or just had an original idea for a self-help book, knowing how to pitch your concept to the right agent or publisher is an essential part of your writer's toolbox.

A Decent Proposal takes you into the bewildering world of selling your work, guides you through the do's and don'ts, shows you how to make your baby stand out in a competitive crowd. Be a professional suitor: learn to propose.’ Jane Sullivan, The Age.

‘If I had a dollar for every time I’ve recommended this book I could probably retire!’ Sally Bird, Calidris Literary Agency.

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Big Game Books accepting queries re full-length poetry manuscripts
Via the Dumbfoundry blog

Big Game Books is accepting queries for full-length poetry manuscripts (i.e., manuscripts between 48-96 pages) through April 1.

URL: http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/bluesubmit.htm

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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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FROM THIS BROKEN HILL 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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Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm
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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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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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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Knopf’s National Poetry Month http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/
If you register with Knopf’s National Poetry Month, they will email you a poem every day in April...Every year in celebration of National Poetry Month, Knopf Poetry offers a free poem—along with bonus features like beautiful broadsides, audio clips, and signed books—each day during the month of April through our Poem-a-Day emails.
Enter your email address to sign up http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/

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OTHER NEWS FOR POETS
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Congratulations to Ray Liversidge, winner of the 2010 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize

Congratulations to Ray Liversidge, winner of the 2010 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize for his poem ‘The Lawn’

Ray Liversidge has won the 2010 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize.

Ray Liversidge’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Australia, Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Canada and the USA. He has written a book of poetry Obeying the Call, a verse novel The Barrier Range and a chapbook The Divorce Papers which was published this year. He is currently working on a manuscript on the work and lives of dead poets.

Ray has his own website...
http://poetray.wordpress.com/

The details of the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize can be found at the USQ website: http://www.usq.edu.au/arts/community/poetryprize

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Congratulations to Judith Beveridge, winner of the 2010 Grace Leven Poetry Prize for her collection ‘Storm and Honey’

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Scanlon Prize for a collection of Indigenous Poetry – Congratulations to Jeanine Leane the 2010 Winner of the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry

At the Poets Union Australian Poetry Festival held in The Rex Centre, Kings Cross, Sydney (4-5 September) the judge for this year’s Scanlon Prize, Yvette Holt from Queensland, announced and introduced the winner, Jeanine Leane, for her book of poems Dark Secrets (PressPress, 2010).

In the judge’s words "Leane's journey is interwoven with post-colonial stitches of a matriarchal society. Aboriginal women's voices echo throughout this divine collection of contemporary storytelling."
Ms Holt added that the Scanlon Prize “is an award of national significance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander poets to aspire to in recognition of their published poetry, independent of state literary awards.”

Jeanine Leane is a writer and educator who lives in Canberra, ACT.

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Cricket Poetry Award – winner announced: Matt Young for his poem, ‘Gentleman Jim’
Matt Young’s “Gentleman Jim” wins the 2010 Cricket Poetry Award.
Over one hundred entries were received from the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Bahrain and Australia for the Cricket Poetry Award competition in 2010.
The last four poems were selected and publicly read at the Cricket Art Prize opening - Members Pavilion, Sydney Cricket Ground on October 7th.
The judges, Peter Fenton and Sally Loane agonised over which poem should win. “In the end, we had to make some tough decisions and it wasn’t an easy process.” said Peter Fenton
Sally Loane added “As judges we were drawn to poems that were more of a personal nature. Rather than depicting characters and actions, we were lured to the poet's own state of mind, emotions and views.”
“Gentleman Jim” by Matt Young pays homage to the many time-honoured and experienced umpires that diligently adjudicate the weekend games in social, grade and competition cricket over the summer.

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Ian Reed Foundation 2010 - Writers-in-residence announced
Ian Reed Foundation 2010 writers-in-residence announced

Following a call-out by the Ian Reed Foundation, nearly 200 writers applied for two writer-in-residence opportunities with ABC Radio National. Congratulations to composer/writer Rosalind Page from regional New South Wales, who will work on her play Wildlife and Michele Lee from Melbourne, with her work See how the Leaf People Run.

These residencies will be based in ABC Radio National’s drama unit in Melbourne and Sydney.

Applications were received from all over Australia from writers who have not previously written for radio including poets, essayists, journalists and songwriters. In addition to creating a work for potential broadcast, the successful recipients will have the chance to observe work on other productions and to collaborate with ABC Radio National’s award-winning sound engineers and drama producers.

Michele Lee's play See how the Leaf People Run is about an orphan Hmong boy, Charlie, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder who almost drowned trying to cross the Mekong river to get from Laos, to Thailand and then to Melbourne.

“I'm really looking forward to learning more about the medium and the process of production,” Michele Lee said when her successful application was announced.

Michele’s Ian Reed Foundation residency comes hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of her appointment as a 2010 Melbourne Theatre Company Emerging Writer.

“The opportunity to work with percussionist Claire Edwards to further develop Wildlife is beyond my wildest dreams - just thrilling news!”, said composer/writer Rosalind Page.

Ian Reed was a notable Australian writer of radio drama. He loved the freedom of the medium and when he died in 1979 he left the bulk of his estate to the ABC to encourage ‘potential and aspiring’ writers of radio drama. The Ian Reed Foundation administers the fund that is used to provide for competitions, workshops, script development and dramaturgy as well as other activities intended to support new writers for radio.

For further information about the Ian Reed Foundation, visit abc.net.au/rn/ianreed

For media enquiries, please contact Nicola Fern, Marketing Manager, ABC Radio National on 03 9626 1758 or fern.nicola@abc.net.au

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Poet Philip Gross is the winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for his collection of poems ‘I Spy Pinhole Eye’

The Winner is … Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)
Poet Philip Gross has won the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for I Spy Pinhole Eye - a collection of poems published by Cinnamon Press. The announcement was made on Wednesday 30 June at a Gala Dinner at St David’s Hotel in Cardiff, introduced by BBC Wales Political Editor, Betsan Powys. Gross was presented with the £10,000 prize by Minister for Heritage, Alun Ffred Jones.
Philip Gross is the author of twelve poetry collections, including The Water Table which won the T S Eliot Prize 2010, as well as a fiction writer, dramatist and Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. He lives in Cardiff.
I Spy Pinhole Eye is a collaborative work between poet and photographer. Simon Denison uses a pinhole camera to transform that most mundane of objects – the footings of electricity pylons - while Philip Gross’s poems explore the act of seeing and interpretation.

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Congratulations to Nathan Curnow winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for his poem endtime

Nathan Curnow is the winner of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2010 for his poem endtime.

2010 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize winners:
First Prize ($10,000) ‘endtime’ by Nathan Curnow, Victoria
Second Prize ($5,000) ‘Always Sometimes Never’ by Andrew Slattery, New South Wales
Commended ($2,500) ‘One Broken Knife’ by Carmen Leigh Keates, Queensland
Commended ($2,500) ‘Dead Sea Psalms’ by Jill Pattinson, Victoria
Judges' comments: http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Read the 2009 and 2010 winners and see the judges' comments at http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Visit the Griffith University website http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/school-humanities/news-and-events/josephine-ulrick-prizes

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Jordie Albiston winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier’s Award for Literature) for her collection ‘the sonnet according to ‘m’

Jordie Albiston lives in Melbourne, where she was born in 1961. She is a poet whose work frequently reflects historical research. Australian composer Andrée Greenwell has adapted two of her books (Botany Bay Document, 1996 - retitled Dreaming Transportation - and The Hanging of Jean Lee, 1998) for music-theatre: both enjoyed seasons at the Sydney Opera House. Nervous Arcs won the Mary Gilmore Award for a first book of Australian poetry in 1995, and was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize. Her fourth collection, The Fall, was shortlisted for Premier's Prizes in Victoria, NSW and Queensland. Here fifth, Vertigoa cantata was published by John Leonard Press, in 2007. She holds a PhD in literature.

The letter ‘m' is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmother and the poet. Jordie Albiston, with characteristic delicacy and zest, limns these very different women as perspectives to each other.
Recurrence is intrinsic to sonnets. They are patterned internally, and are often paroxysmal: a perfect form and formation for poems which worry the distinction between the fatal and the banal. The sequence tells what happens when you admit the existential into everyday life, in small or large doses. The results can be desolate, or sublime. And comedic as well: Albiston knows how to play between darkness and send-up, when it comes to an arduous and animating tension between body and mind.
The Sonnet According to 'M' is published by John Leonard Press
Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to ‘m'

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Derek Motion - winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets for his work “forest hill”
07 Apr 2010 : A national prize held in honour of Australian poet Judith Wright has been awarded to Charles Sturt University (CSU) postgraduate student, Mr Derek Motion. The 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, valued at $3 000, has been won by the poet and PhD student for his work, ‘forest hill’.
The successful poets featured at a presentation event at the Melbourne Emerging Writers’ Festival on Saturday 29 May, alongside Keri Glastonbury and Gig Ryan (poetry editors of Overland and The Age respectively).
In addition to the prize money, Mr Motion’s poem will be published in the next issue of Overland, a quarterly e-bulletin about events, politics and literature. He was presented the poetry award at the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival in the Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday 29 May.

Commenting on the winning entries including Mr Motion’s work, judge Dr Keri Glastonbury found, “…this loose-knit community is where a lot of the energy and action in Australian poetry is, and I look forward to seeing these poets release first books”.
Mr David Gilbey, Senior Lecturer in English at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga said, “I'm delighted at Derek's continuing success in the lists of Australian letters. Derek's poetry is concentrated, allusive, multi-faceted, drawing on literary traditions and contemporary cultural and technological practices. It is also finely human and wittily self-facing - a pleasure to read.
“Like Judith Wright's poetry, Derek combines metaphysical, personal and social concerns. He richly deserves this award and it's a mark of the modernity and integrity of the judging that his poetry has been recognised.”

Mr Motion named his poem ‘forest hill' after the area on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga where he spent some of his early years and where went to primary school.
“In particular I think I was concerned with locating imagery surrounding the time when you start to become who you are; a kind of site of individuation and thinking about what this means for the adult me,” Mr Motion said.

It is not the first time the CSU postgraduate student has had his work honoured at the national level.
In October 2009, Mr Motion received an Australia Council 2010 Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Initiative Grant, valued at $15 000. Read more here.

Mr Motion is doing his PhD through the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga. His research focuses on his own poetry in the context of Australian poets, Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) and Michael Dransfield (1948-1973).
Living in Wagga Wagga with his young family, Mr Motion is also Director of the Booranga Writers’ Centre at CSU.

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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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Congratulations to Ali Cobby Eckerman - Ali Cobby Eckerman has had a series of Yankunytjatjara Love Poems selected for inclusion in Best Poems 2010 by Black Inc.

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Emma Jones WINNER Best First Collection, FORWARD PRIZE for her collection ‘The Striped World’
Congratulations to Australian poet, 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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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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Christine Paice WINNER of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2009
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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VOICEWORKS MAGAZINE
TURNED 21 - The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine.
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 Words We Found available through all good bookshops and online at www.expressmedia.org.au http://www.expressmedia.org.au/ 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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Best wishes,
Cathy Bray
for Brook Emery and the Poets Union committee,
Poets Union Inc,
PO Box 755, POTTS POINT NSW 1335
Tel. (02) 9357 6602 (Tuesdays & Wednesdays)
Email: info@poetsunion.com Please visit the Poets Union website: www.poetsunion.com

Poets Union e-news for poets all over Australia

2010-10-15T04:51:00.000-07:00

Dear Poets Union Members and Friends,

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Australian Poetry Ltd seeks a NSW STATE DIRECTOR

Australian Poetry Ltd is a new organization due to be launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre based in Melbourne and Poets Union based in NSW. It will be the peak industry body for poetry in this country with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Australian Poetry is seeking a NSW State Director to be based in Sydney and work with the National Director in planning and executing the NSW component of the National Program. The State Director should have strong management experience, leadership skills and experience in a similar role for a relevant organisation. This is a part time role in 2011.

To apply for this position, please email National Director, Paul Kooperman, at paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au for a position description and selection criteria.

Deadline for submissions is Friday November 13th.

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Australian Poetry Ltd seeks a PUBLICATIONS MANAGER to commence January 2011 – applications Friday 22nd October

Australian Poetry Ltd is a new organisation about to be launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre based in Melbourne and Poets Union based in NSW. It will be the peak industry body for poetry in this country, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Australian Poetry is seeking a Publications Manager to oversee the publications arm of the organisation, including the publication, marketing and distribution of our flagship poetry journal.

The selected candidate will have broad experience in a similar role with a relevant organisation, and have a clear passion and vision for the position. This is a full time paid position and will commence January 2011.

Deadline for applications is 5pm Friday October 22nd.
To find out more information or apply, please email paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au
for a position description and the selection criteria.

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POETRY EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND READINGS
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Sat 16th October - Make a comment on the arts, arts practice, arts industry and artists. Be recorded on 2SER-FM
an open artist ON AIR exhibition OPENING
-“RAW ROO ROAR”-
This Saturday >>>>press play>>>>
Talking Through Your Arts invite you to an ON AIR exhibition.

Event: “RAW ROO ROAR” Talking Through Your Arts 2SER-FM Subscriber DRIVE
When: Saturday 16 October 2010 What time: 12-1.00pm Where: 2SER-FM 1 0 7 . 3
Simply register: your name and address on talkingthroughyourarts@2ser.com and you will become part of the Talking Through Your Arts ON AIR exhibition.

Make a comment about art, arts practice, arts industry and artists. We will record your “RAW ROO ROAR”!

Artists have heard their ‘old friend’ speak from just a simple hole in space, as beautiful as a navel. And all space was endlessly divided thus into circles and triangles inscribed within another, combining and moving in harmony, and changing into one another in a geometrically inconceivable manner that could not be reproduced in ordinary reality. A sound accompanied this luminous movement, and suddenly it was discovered who was making it was the RADio.

We would like to hear you talking through your arts. Make a comment about art, arts practice, arts industry and artists. We will record your “RAW ROO ROAR”!

Buy yourself a piece of ART from our exhibition collection and become a member of Talking Through Your Arts and the artisan community that is 2SER-FM.

Simply register your name and address on talkingthroughyourarts@2ser.com and you will become part of the Talking Through Your Arts ON AIR exhibition.
Event: “RAW ROO ROAR” Talking Through Your Arts 2SER-FM Subscriber DRIVE When: Saturday 16 October 2010 What time: 12-1.00pm Where: 2SER-FM 1 0 7 . 3

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Saturday 16th October Perth Poetry Club is back
with African American jazz poet LE SCOTT

We have an international guest! On Saturday 16 October, Perth Poetry Club presents African American jazz poet LE SCOTT. Please join us at The Moon, 323 William Street, Northbridge, from 2 to 4 pm for an amazing afternoon of poetry with a difference. If you'd like to read something on open mike, please bring along something of your own, or a favourite. Le Scott will present his work in two sessions, so if you don't want to miss anything, be there at 2.

Event: Perth Poetry Club Reading
Special Guest: Le Scott will present his work in two sessions, so if you don't want to miss anything, be there at 2.
Time: 2-4pm
Venue: at The Moon,
Address: 323 William Street, Northbridge.
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Plus open mike. All welcome. Come and listen.

Info, contact info & artist bios: www.perthpoetryclub.com
perthpoetryclub@gmail.com 0406 624 578

Coming up in October at Perth Poetry Club:
23 October: ALLAN PADGETT & KEN HUDSON
30 October: SAMANTHA MELIA & CAITLIN MALING

Other upcoming events in Perth poetry:
Australian Poetry Slam WA Heats Thursday nights 21 Oct - 18 Nov, 7pm at The Bakery, James St, Northbridge

Sunday 31 October 10.00 am: Spring in the Valley brunch and poetry with Neil Pattinson - ring Neil - 0422148956 or Julie- 0435902488 or Al- 0409116525 (see flyer on PU website www.poetsunion.com for more details)

Sunday 14 Nov 2-5pm: Poetry workshops in Mt Lawley with Janet Jackson. More info at www.proximitypoetry.com

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APC in Melbourne – Poetry Makeover Workshop with John Tranter
Poetry Makeover Workshop with John Tranter: 17 October

A positive and interactive workshop where participants are encouraged to bring a poem that can be (and will be) changed and worked on. A suggestion from John is to bring a poem based on some other poem (or song or story or movie or play) by some other writer. It might be a parody, or a travesty, or a faithful translation, or an updating for example, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet updated to West Side Story. John will read some of his favourite poems in this vein, then participants will be invited to read their poems out, and everyone can have a chance to say what they might do to improve or change the poem.
John Tranter is a current Poet-in-Residence at the Australian Poetry Centre.

Event: A positive and interactive workshop where participants are encouraged to bring a poem that can be (and will be) changed and worked on.
Date: Sunday 17 October
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: Wheeler Centre, Workshop Space
Address:176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne
Tickets: $80/$100 APC members/non-members
Contact for bookings: Katie Hall events@australianpoetrycentre.org.au

For bookings click here. ..
Poetry Makeover, John Tranter workshop
WHAT: A positive and interactive workshop where participants are encouraged to bring a poem that can be (and will be) changed and worked on.
WHERE: Workshop Space, The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne
CONTACT DETAILS: Katie Hall events@australianpoetrycentre.org.au

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20 October – Auburn Poets & Writers’ Group
welcomes new members
The Auburn Poets & Writers Group welcomes new members

When: third Wednesday of the month
Date: Wed. 20th October
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Auburn Community Development Network Inc.
Address: Shop P7B
Cnr Park & Queen Streets,
Auburn.

Contact: Auburn Poets and Writers Group
Email: manager@acdn.org.au
or
auburnarts@acdn.org.au
More information: Jenn Martin, Community Liaison Librarian, Auburn City Library Service at Auburn City Library
Email: jenn.martin@auburn.nsw.gov.au

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In Melbourne
Black Pepper launch of ‘Columbine’ by Jennifer Harrison
BLACK PEPPER INVITES YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF

Event: launch of Colombine New & Selected Poems
by JENNIFER HARRISON

Launched by: PHILIP SALOM, poet, novelist and academic
Date: Wednesday 20 October
Time: 6.30 PM
Venue: NORTH FITZROY ARMS,
Address: 296 Rae St (cnr Reid St), North Fitzroy 3068
Tel.: (03) 9489 8519

SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE: $25 (RRP $28.95, 250 pgs) ISBN 9781876044657
Complimentary drinks and refreshments will be served
Excellent meals are available from the bar and restaurant menu

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Thursday nights - AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM WA Heats
start 21st October
Australian Poetry Slam WA Heats
Date: Thursday nights 21 Oct - 18 Nov,
Time: 7pm
Venue: at The Bakery,
Address: James St, Northbridge, WA

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Sun. 24th October – Brett Whiteley Studio: Poets Union monthly reading
– guest poet will be Rae Desmond Jones
The Poets Union monthly poetry reading is held on the fourth Sunday of the month. This month, Sunday 24th October, at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Sydney.

Date: Sunday 24th October
Guest poet : Rae Desmond Jones
Venue: Brett Whiteley Studio
Address: 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills (off Devonshire Street, via Esther Street and Esther Lane)
Time: 2.00 - 3.30 pm
Free entry. Open Mic included.

Rae Desmond Jones was born in the mining town of Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales. Although many of his poems and stories are concerned with urban experience, he has always felt that desert landscapes are central to his language and perception. He was mayor of Ashfield, an inner Sydney Municipality, from 2004 to 2006, and during that period, held together a broad coalition of Labor Party, Green and Independent representatives. His volume of poetry Blow out was published by Island Press in 2008.

The Poets Union thanks the Brett Whiteley Studio staff and the Art Gallery of NSW for their support and we thank Rosnay wines for their wonderful wine and sponsorship.

Convenor: Angela Stretch for Poets Union Inc. Enquiries for 2010 : 0438 898 578

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Sun. 24th October – following the Poets Union monthly reading...
Five Islands Press invite you to launch of SWALLOW by Claire Potter
at the Brett Whiteley Studio

Event: launch of Swallow by Claire Potter
Date: Sunday 24th October
Invitation: from Five Islands Press
Venue: Brett Whiteley Studio
Address: 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills (off Devonshire Street, via Esther Street and Esther Lane)
Time: 4.00 pm (following the Poets Union monthly reading from 2.00 - 3.30 pm)

Please RSVP: contact@fiveislandspress.com
Free entry.

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Early bird Members’ Registration due 25 October for the
next January: Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2011
Creative work by the sea
The Australian Poetry Centre, Poets Union and South Coast Writers Centre present
Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2011
Creative work by the sea

A unique, immersive creative development experience for poets, the Wollongong Poetry Workshop is an intensive eight days of workshops, lectures, seminars and readings in the company of other people with a passion for poetry. Workshop tutors for 2011 include Michael Sharkey and Susan Hampton, with a third tutor and guest lecturers to be announced.

The Wollongong Poetry Workshop is ideal for emerging poets who want to access their full potential as poets, and for published poets who are ready to discover new dimensions to their practice. The Wollongong Poetry Workshop is Australia's premier creative development experience for poets. Past participants have gone on to win major prizes and publish award-winning books.

In 2011, the Wollongong Poetry Workshop will be held in the unique, secluded setting of the Clifton School of Arts, 30 minutes drive from Wollongong and an hour from Sydney. Built in 1911, this atmospheric little building clings to the escarpment at one end of the Seacliff bridge and is accessible by car, bus and train, and close to free parking.

Dates: 4 to 11 January, 2011
Venue: Clifton School of Arts,
Address: 338 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Clifton NSW 2515 (just north of Wollongong)

(a) Members only - Early bird registration for members who register before 25th October:
$480 for APC, Poets Union and SCWC members.
or
(b) Registration after Monday 25 October
$550 for APC, Poets Union and SCWC members. $720
or
(c) Registration after Monday 25 October
$880 for non-members.

Cost includes: lunch and morning and afternoon tea.
Registration and more information: please email wpoetryw@chariot.com.au or phone South Coast Writers Centre on 02 4228 0151.

Places are strictly limited. Previous participants will be automatically accepted into the workshop. If you have not previously attended the Wollongong Poetry Workshop, please send up to 10 pages of poetry and a CV or bio of no more than a page to wpoetryw@chariot.com.au.

If you are travelling from outside the area accommodation information is available from Tourism Wollongong - http://www.tourismwollongong.com/

Stayz has a list of rental houses and B&Bs,
http://www.stayz.com.au

and there is a list of backpacker-style accommodation here -
http://www.about-australia.com/travel-guides/new-south-wales/illawarra/accommodation/backpacker/

A number of the local real estate agents also provide a holiday letting service.

If you are keen to share accommodation with other participants do contact us and we will do our best to put you in touch with those in the same position.

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Mon 25 October - Sydney Poetry book club meets to discuss
Jennifer Maiden's ‘Pirate Rain’

Date: Monday 25 October, 2010
Book for discussion on 25 Oct: Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden
Venue: Madam Fling Flong (upstairs salon) above Soni’s Bar
Address: Level 1, 169 King Street, Newtown.
Time: 7.00 – 9.00 pm

About Sydney Poetry bookclub – the second sydneypoetry.com bookclub will convene at 7 pm on Monday 30th August upstairs at Madam Fling Flong’s (aka Soni’s –which is the downstairs part of 169 King Street, Newtown) to discuss Judith Beveridge’s Storm and Honey.

What you need to do between now and then: read the book (Pirate Rain), develop an opinion.
About Jennifer Maiden
Jennifer Maiden has won the N.S.W. Premier’s Award for Poetry twice, the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry, the Christopher Brennan Award for a lifetime of achievement in poetry, and many other prizes. Her recent poetry books include Acoustic Shadow (1993), Mines (1999) and Friendly Fire (2005), which won the Age Book of the Year Award.

About the venue (Madam Fling Flong) – sometimes there are private functions upstairs, so if we are not there, we’ll be perched in the front bar downstairs (aka Soni’s).

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Mon 25th Oct early bird prices deadline for Poetry Lab course (see above)
Poetry Lab now called the Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2011
The APC, Poets Union and South Coast Writers Centre have extended the early bird deadline for this once-in-a-life-time experience. You can now pay early bird prices up until Monday Oct 25th. The tutors are Bronwyn Lea, Michael Sharkey and Susan Hampton.

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Message from Paul Kooperman at the Australian Poetry Centre –
meet the Poet in Residence, Lisa Gorton: Wed. 27 October.

Dear Members, friends and associates,
I am proud to announce our first Poet in Residence, supported by the State Government of Victoria through Arts Victoria and City of Literature initiative as well as CAL, RMIT and the Australia Council.
Lisa Gorton, winner of the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry, author of children’s novel, Cloudland, essayist, reviewer, and winner of the John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies, is resident poet at the Australian Poetry Centre from September 1st until Nov 30th. She is here to write poetry, but will also give a couple of workshops and readings and allow time to meet and chat with aspiring poets.
Although Lisa will be having national impact through her online workshops and web publications, the following events are in Melbourne at the Wheeler Centre, where she will be based:

Meet the Poet
On Wednesdays October 27, Nov 10 and Nov 24 between 12:30-1pm, Lisa Gorton is available for informal chats, discussion about her work, your work and all things poetry. If you get the chance, this is a (free) rare opportunity to get up and close and personal with one of Australia’s leading poets.

Date: Lisa’s next ‘meet the poet’ session’ will be on October 13
Time : 12.30 – 1.00 pm

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7.30 pm Wed 27th Oct. in North Sydney – Live Poets @ Don Bank
poet Nur Alam with her collection ‘Forty Poems – plus/minus’
+ Gilmar Munoz and Juan Medellin (Spanish Classic Guitar
Don Bank on Wednesday, October 27
Date: Wednesday, October 27
Time: doors open from 7.30 pm
Event: Live Poets @ Don Bank
Venue: Don Bank Museum
Address: 6 Napier St,
North Sydney
Entry: $7 entry includes supper and drinks.

SPECIAL GUESTS:
NUR ALAM reading from her book: Forty Poems - plus/minus.
GILMAR MUNOZ and JUAN MEDELLIN - presenting a program of Spanish Classic Guitar.

The Open Section features: the Poetry of the First Peoples - the tradition of Oral Poetry and its Role.
Alternatively: anyone is welcome to recite, sing, tell a story or play an instrument.
Doors open 7.30 pm. $7 entry includes supper and drinks.
Further info: Danny Gardner (02) 9896 6956 Mobile: 0422 263 373 or at:
dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au

As usual there wil be an open section where anyone is welcome to recite, sing, tell a story or play an instrument.
Doors open 7.30 pm. $7 entry includes supper and drinks.
Further details: (02) 9896 6956 Mobile 0422 263 373 or at:
dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au

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In Sydney – RhiZomic Poetry Party –
Wednesday, October 27
Poetry Party and open-mic. Featuring: tbc

Date: Wednesday October 27 - last Wed of the month (this time it’s the 4th Wednesday)
Time: 7-9 PM
Event: RhiZomiC Poetry (the last Wednesday of every month)
Venue: Kerrie Lowe Gallery
Address: 49 King St. Newtown
Kerrie Lowe and Elisabeth Johnson
Kerrie Lowe Gallery
49 - 51 King St, Newtown 2042
Phone - 9550 4433 / Fax - 9550 1996
Web - www.kerrielowe.com
Mon-Sat 10am - 5.30 pm / Thurs till 7

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In Berrima 29th Oct. Spring Poetry Drinks and Canapes
with Mark Treddinnick and Robert Gray
“Spring Poetry Drinks and Canapés”

The Southern Highlands of NSW is a place renowned for many things of beauty including its rolling green hills and exotic and native gardens. It is also a place that many successful and famous artists choose to call their home.

Event: Renowned Australian writer and poet, Mark Tredinnick, lives just outside of Bowral and is launching his first book of poems, Fire Diary, at Bluemetal Vineyard on Friday 29th October.

The launch of Mark's book will be celebrated by an evening of Poetry readings, Wine and Canapés and presented by acclaimed Australian poet Robert Gray, who will also read from a selection of his works.
Robert and Mark have both been part of the Poetry on a Plate luncheons held throughout the year at Bluemetal Vineyard and are both available for discussion throughout the evening and book signings on the night.

Spring Poetry Drinks with Mark Tredinnick and Robert Gray
When: Friday 29th October
Time: 6pm-8pm
Where: Bluemetal Vineyard Cellar Door & Café
112 Compton Park Rd, Berrima NSW
Entry: $35 per person
RSVP: Monday 25th October

Bookings are essential and $35 per person on (02) 4877 1877 on cellar@bluemetalvineyard.com
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Mark Tredinnick - more information at www.marktredinnick.com.au
Some of Mark's recent awards include:
• Highly commended in 2010 Blake Poetry Prize
• Qld Premier's Prize (The Blue Plateau)
• Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Prize
Robert Gray
Some of Robert's writing and poetry awards include:
• Adelaide Arts Festival Award
• The New South Wales Premiers' Awards
• The Victorian Premiers' Awards
• The Patrick White Award
Robert also edited another talented Southern Highland based artists' work, Drawn From Life, a biography of famous Australian painter John Olsen.

The atmosphere for the evening will be a casual and friendly one with the opportunity for open discussion and book signings by Mark and Robert throughout the evening.

Spring Poetry Drinks Bluemetal Vineyard Cellar Door Friday 29th October 6pm-8pm

Media Contact: Louise Horsley Ph: 0438 377727
wine@bluemetalvineyard.com www.bluemetalvineyard.com
Bluemetal Vineyard is located on the beautiful NSW Southern Highlands region and produces premium single estate, award winning wines including Fumé Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Sangiovese Rosé, Petit Verdot, and The Cabernets.
The Cellar Door is open Thursdays to Mondays from 10am to 5pm.

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WA - Sunday 31st October spring in the Valley – poetry and brunch
Sunday 31 October 10.00 am: Spring in the Valley brunch and poetry with Neil Pattinson
- ring Neil - 0422148956 or Julie- 0435902488 or Al- 0409116525

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2nd Nov. in Glebe. WordinHand’s heat: Australian Poetry Slam

In Glebe – WordinHand @ the FriendinHand

Event: WordinHand is Sydney’s premier regular and enduring poetry / spoken word event, providing open mike opportunities for voices directly from the Sydney community plus a high-energy poetry slam every month in addition to a featured poet or two.

WordinHand's Heat of the Australian Poetry Slam
Date: Tuesday 2nd November (First Tuesdays except January)
Time: 7:30 for 8:00 PM.
Venue: The Friend in Hand Hotel
Address: 58 Cowper Street Glebe
Tel. (02) 9660 2326.
Entry by donation: $10/$5.
Slam Prize: $50.
Check it out at the new and improved site, on the WordinHand Events Calendar.
And while you're there, why not read Tug Dumbly's and Benito Di Fonzo's takes on Bardflys, the long-running poetry nights at The Friend in Hand that preceded WordinHand?

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9 Nov. Canberra – Poetry at The Gods with guest poet Andy Jackson
APOLOGIES TO ALL AT The Gods - last month was advertised wrongly as October 19 when it was all over by then having been on Oct 12 - sincere apologies and hope it went well!

Tues November 9:Andy Jackson (Melbourne)
Guest poet: Melbourne poet, Andy Jackson will be the featured poet at The Gods' Cafe
Venue:The Gods cafe and wine bar at ANU, Canberra
Address: The Gods Café/Bar,
ANU Arts Centre.
Directions: The Gods Café/Bar is in the ANU Arts Centre - across the quadrangle from the Student Union near Sullivans Creek.

Dinner: Light meals are available from 6pm.
Please book at The Gods on 6248 5538.
Patrons intending to eat are asked to arrive by 6.30 to ensure that the readings can begin at 8pm.
Poetry reading from 8.00 pm
Entry fee: $5.
Seating is limited to 80 people.
To be sure of hearing a particular poet it is advisable to eat at the venue beforehand but ‘listening only’ 'non-eating' seats can also be booked.

Book directly by phoning the Gods Café/Bar
Tel.6248 5538

More info:
Geoff Page - 8/40 Leahy Close, Narrabundah ACT 2604 Australia
+61 2 6239 4027 0400 800 340

What’s on next at The Gods
Later in the year...
*Tues Dec 14 Joanne Burns (Sydney)
Robyn Rowland (Torquay, Victoria)
Sponsors: Aldo Giurgola, Collaery Lawyers, Daltons Books, z4 Wines, artsACT

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27 Nov. Poetry: A Practical Workshop with Peter Skrzynecki
(NSW Writers’ Centre in Glebe Library)
Event: POETRY: A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP
Poet: With Peter Skrzynecki (NSW Writers’ Centre Course no. - 10SKRZ11)
Date: Saturday 27 November, 10am - 4pm
Venue: Glebe Library
Address: cnr Glebe Point Road and Wigram Road, Glebe
Cost: Full Price - $140, members $100, Concession members $85
Bookings email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au

About PETER SKRZYNECKI has published seventeen volumes, including nine volumes of poetry, two novels and a memoir. He has received several awards for his contributions to Australian literature, including the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1972, the Captain Cook Bicentenary Poetry Prize, the Henry Lawson Short Story Award, an Order of Cultural Merit from the Polish government in 1989 and, in 2002, an Order of Australia. His most recent publication is Old/New World: New and Selected Poems (UQP, 2007).

Peter Skrzynecki is the author of nine volumes of poetry including the award-winning Headwaters, There, Behind the Lids and Immigrant Chronicle. Join him for a practical, round-table discussion of your work in a friendly, supportive environment.

About the workshop:
Here’s how it works: each student will bring in no more than 5 poems of no more than 30 lines each. Make sure you don’t include your name anywhere on the poem. Poems will then be discussed by the class, with the author remaining anonymous, providing constructive feedback and insight into each work.

We’ll keep these three essentials in mind:

1. Appreciation: Poetry in our daily lives, the attempt to try and understand why we read it and try to write it. What kinds of poetry appeal to you? Why do we continue to enjoy it above other genres?
2. Encouragement: A positive approach that hopes to establish confidence in writers and readers. There is nothing dogmatic or prescriptive in this course. Travel at your own pace without anxiety or embarrassment. Allow yourself to ‘be’ yourself, whatever that means to you.
3. Authenticity: What does it mean to have an ‘authentic’ voice? Is there such a thing? How do you/we achieve this in a world of rapid change, constant distractions from the media and literary theorists?

Expected Learning Outcomes
You will receive a greater appreciation of your attempts to write poetry; the knowledge that you are not alone in trying to express the inexpressible. If you are a beginner this course does not guarantee to turn you into a poet.

Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Student Requirements: Bring no more than 5 poems, each no longer than, say, 30 lines, with 12 copies of each. Leave them anonymous. Please note, we cannot guarentee that all of your poems will be read.

Food: Tea and coffee making facilities will be provided. Course participants are advised to bring their own lunch.
Size: 15 max

NSW Writers’ Centre
PO Box 1056, Rozelle NSW 2039
Phone (02) 9555 9757 Fax (02) 9818 1327
Email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au
Website: www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
Office hours: Monday to Saturday, 9am-5pm

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2nd Nov. Deadline for registration: 7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival January 17-22, 2011, Delray Beach, Florida

It is now three weeks until the deadline. We recommend you consider applying today. You and your poems will have the full attention of the workshop leaders during the festival week, along with the company of other participating poets, and all the events that make the festival a celebration of every aspect of poetry. But you must apply!

The deadline is November 2nd, not a long way off! But, the earlier you apply, the better your chances of being accepted into your first choice of workshop. Visit our website to learn more about Dean Young, his workshop, POETRY LAB and to read all the workshop descriptions, poet biographies, and see the schedule of events. Tuition covers all festival events.

Don't miss this opportunity to focus on your work with some of America's finest poets. Apply today!

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Rama Lama Ding Dong and ‘What Comes First?’ – Friday 5th Nov. presentations of short-listed entries for the ‘What Comes First?’ Song Writing Competition

RAMA LAMA DING DONG
“Lyrics don’t mean anything! Like ‘Rama-lama-ding-dong’ or ‘Give Peace a Chance’!” Homer Simpson

Event: short-listed applicants will sing, Karaoke style, their lyrics to James' music on the night, hoping their words will be the perfect fit for the song.
Date: Friday 5 November
Time: 7.30pm
Location: Wheeler Centre,
Address: 176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne
Free event, book here, via on the Wheeler Centre website.

The Edsels released, “Rama Lama Ding Dong” in 1958 which became a national hit, but surely not because of the lyrics. Would Bach have been better with words? What would Gilbert be without Sullivan or Rodgers without Hammerstein? And what comes first, the music or the lyrics?

On November 5th, the Australian Poetry Centre has decided the music comes first, with a competition called What Comes First, offering poets and wordsmiths all over Australia the chance to write the lyrics for a new hit single! The music has been written by established composer/music producer, James Roche (from Bachelor Girl).

Lyrics are currently being submitted and short-listed applicants will sing, Karaoke style, their lyrics to James' music on the night, hoping their words will be the perfect fit for the song. Rama Lama Ding Dong is a partnership between the Wheeler Centre and Australian Poetry Centre and we invite you to what should be a very entertaining evening of words and music. Listen to the music here .
This event is in partnership with the the Australian Poetry Centre.

Deadline for WHAT COMES FIRST song writing competition was September 30. They had the tune, but needed your lyrics.

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In Mt. Lawley WA ‘Expand your Boundaries’ poetry workshop
'Expand your Boundaries' poetry workshop
14 Nov 2010

Event: ‘Expand your Boundaries’ contemporary poetry workshops.
Date(s) : Sunday 14 November 2010
Time: 2-5pm,
Venue: Mt Lawley Neighbourhood Learning Centre
Address: 715 Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley

Cost: Participants will be asked to contribute according to their means. The suggested amount is $30 per session, but please pay what you can afford or feel the workshop is worth.
Limited places: book now. 0406 624 578 or lostpoetjj@gmail.com

Expand the boundaries of your poetry by writing and reading. Workshops include:
• Writing experiments: write in ways you may not have previously tried.
• How poetry works in English: how form can create feeling.
• Handouts with example poems, information and poets’ resources.
• Afternoon tea.

At the workshops we talk about different aspects of poetry and do different experiments. The workshops are suitable for beginning poets as well as those with some experience.

More info: www.proximitypoetry.com
Janet , Janet Jackson: Words with attitude & soul
Poems, performances, workshops, courses, events
Creative, technical and corporate writing
Editing, manuscript production, self-publishing

lostpoetjj@gmail.com
www.proximitypoetry.com
0406 624 578 (Australia)
+61 406 624 578 (World)
PO Box 258, Darlington WA 6070, Australia

Perth Poetry Club: www.perthpoetryclub.com
Breastfeeding info & help: www.breastfeeding.asn.au

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Poetry Reading at Newtown Library – Cathy Bray reading from her chapbook ‘The Owl’ and reflecting on her Sydney Fringe festival show ‘Mad Woman’s Breakfast’

Event: Cathy Bray – poetry reading including her 2010 chapbook ‘The Owl’ (from Picaro Press) and poems and reflections on her Sydney Fringe show ‘Mad Woman’s Breakfast. Eat my Bush!’ broaching Australian ambivalence towards America explored with 15 of her own poems in a ‘poetry salon gone mad’ at Madam Fling Flong in Newtown.

Date: Sunday 21st November
Time: 2-4 PM
Venue: Newtown Library
Address:

Thanks to Steve Mitchell, Newtown Library Team Leader and the City of Sydney Libraries.

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COMPETITIONS, PRIZES and SUBMISSIONS
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2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – nominations due Oct 18

Nominations for the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards are now open.

The New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers. Administered by Arts NSW, the 2011 Awards are valued at $315,000 in total, including the Special Award and Book of the Year.

In 2011, nominations are sought for the following awards:

• The Christina Stead Prize ($40,000)
• The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5,000)
• The Douglas Stewart Prize ($40,000)
• The Kenneth Slessor Prize ($30,000)
• The Patricia Wrightson Prize ($30,000)
• The Ethel Turner Prize ($30,000)
• The Play Award ($30,000)
• The Script Writing Award ($30,000)
• The Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW Award ($20,000)

Nomination forms and guidelines are for download at www.pla.nsw.gov.au or contact Arts NSW (Email: arts.funding@communities.nsw.gov.au, Phone: (02) 9228 5533, Freecall in NSW: 1800 358 594).

Closing date - Nominations need to be received at Arts NSW by 5pm, Monday 18 October 2010.

The Guidelines and Nomination form for the 2011 NSW Premier's Translation Prize and PEN Medallion for Australian translators who translate work into English from other languages will be available shortly.

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Melbourne Poets Union – International Poetry Competition 2010 due by Friday 29 October
MELBOURNE POETS UNION - Established 1977

Competition: INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION 2010
Prizes: $1,000 First Prize $300 Second Prize $200 third prize
+ $100 Martin Downey Urban Realist Award
+ Plus Book Vouchers for Highly Commended & Books for Commended
Judge: Competition Judge – Ron Pretty
Poems: not more than 50 lines
Due: Friday 29th October (see conditions below)
Entry form: Download Entry Forms from MPU’s Website http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mpuinc
More Information: Contact for MPU Inc is Leon Shann
Tel. 03 9386 6259 or email shann3056@optusnet.com.au

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
 poems should be in English, unpublished, not accepted or submitted for publication
 elsewhere and must be your original work
 poems should not be entered in any other competition, or have previously been a winner
 in any other competition
 may be on any theme, maximum 50 lines and must be typed
 shall not bear the poet’s name
 entries should be received by Friday 29th October 2010, or postmarked that date
 entries must be accompanied by cheque/money order payable to Melbourne Poets Union
 and addressed to Melbourne Poets Union, PO Box 266, Flinders Lane, Vic 8009
 $7 per poem or $13 for 2 poems or $18 for 3 poems (no cash please)

NOTE
 entry fees are not refundable
 there is no limit to the number of entries an individual may submit
 failure to meet any of these conditions shall render the poems ineligible
 please enclose a self stamped address envelope (SSAE) for results
 the judge’s decision is final - no correspondence shall be entered into.
 MPU reserves the right to publish the winning poem/s on their website.

Entry Forms – please download from MPU’s Website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mpuinc
Sponsors: Black Inc Books, Black Pepper Publishing, The Paperback Bookshop

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Fellowship of Australia Writers – Mornington Peninsular Prize
poetry submissions invited by Oct 29
The Mornington Peninsula Prize 2010 - Offered by the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic) Peninsula Region

Poetry Competition: A poem of up to 30 lines: open theme and style.
First Prize : $200, Highly Commended and Commended certificates.
Entry Fee: $5.00 per poem.
Due date: Competition closes 29th October 2010.
Open to residents of Australia.
Entry form / results sheet, please send a SSAE to
P.O. Box 574, MORNINGTON, VIC, 3931,
or email peninsulafaw@bigpond.com

Conditions of Entry:
• Poems must be entrant’s own work, must not have been published and must not have been awarded First Prize in any other competition.
• A fully completed entry form is required; blank entry forms may be photocopied.
• Please avoid using fancy fonts.
• Single-sided on A4 white paper.
• Entrant’s name not to appear on manuscript, only on entry form.
• No email submissions accepted.
• Multiple entries accepted, but each poem entered requires the nominated fee.
• Please note that entries breaching these conditions will be disqualified by the Competition Co-ordinator. The judge(s) will determine prizes and commendations.

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Cafe Poets – submissions due by October 31st
THE CAFE POET PROGRAM
If you’ve missed out before, don’t miss out now. We are currently taking applications for the next round of cafe poets.

Submit: your contact details,
three reasons why you want to be the cafe poet,
three benefits to the cafe as to why it would be good to have you as a cafe poet
and two outcomes of the six month residence - a personal outcome (something you want to achieve personally) and a public outcome (something you will provide at the cafe for the public).

The deadline: for submissions is Sunday October 31st.
Please also nominate one or two appropriate cafes you might want to work with/at.
Residencies for this round of applications will begin in January 2011.
You must be an APC or Poets Union member to apply. Join the APC here

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The Greenhouse – Poets Union e-anthology
Submissions invited from members and due 15th Nov. issue #3.
Members please email your poems directly to Peter Newton: jpnewton@tpg.com.au

A Poets Union e-anthology of Environmental Poems edited by Peter J.F.Newton
Submissions invited and due 15th November for issue #3.

The Poets Union invites members to contribute poems to The Greenhouse, a collection of poems about the environment, to be published as an e-anthology over three tranches in 2010 on the Poets Union website. This is one of the most important issues we have ever faced.

The Greenhouse (first mounting), edited by Martin Langford NOW PUBLISHED - featuring the work of over 50 Poets Union members.

We invite Members to place your thoughts on this and subsequent issues on the Poets Union website.
Submission of entries for The Greenhouse #2 (the second mounting), co-edited by Martin Langford and Peter J.F. Newton, has closed and editing is under way.

Submission of entries for The Greenhouse #3 (the third mounting), edited by Peter J.F. Newton, is required by 15 November 2010.
Entry: Each member may submit a maximum of one poem per deadline (ie three poems over the whole year).
Editor: poet and Poets Union committee member Peter J.F. Newton will edit the submissions and direct queries to individual authors.
Biographical note: Members should also submit a 25 word biographical note the first time they submit work to the anthology.

Members Submit 1 poem: as a simple Word (.doc) attachment
Email poems to: Peter J. F. Newton jpnewton@tpg.com.au
Subject: submission 'THE GREENHOUSE' + YOUR NAME
Cost: Free to members of the Poets Union

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Peter Porter Poetry Prize submissions invited and due 15 Nov.
PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE

Entry to the seventh annual Australian Book Review poetry prize – renamed the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, in memory of the late Australian poet – is now open.

First prize: $4000
Shortlisted poems: $250
Closing date: 15 November 2010

The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry, and guarantees winners wide exposure through publication in ABR.

PREVIOUS WINNERS: Stephen Edgar (2005), Judith Bishop (2006), Alex Skovron (2007)
Ross Clark (2008), Tracy Ryan (2009), Anthony Lawrence (2010)

The guidelines and entry form are now available on the ABR website http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/

Poets must reside in Australia or be Australian citizens living overseas.
Each entry must be a single poem of no more than 100 lines.
Multiple entries are permitted, and all poems will be judged anonymously.
A shortlist comprising a maximum of six poems will be announced and those poems published in the March 2011 issue of ABR. The winner will be announced in the April 2011 issue.

Peter Rose, Editor Australian Book Review
Tel: (03) 9429 6700
Email: editor@australianbookreview.com.au
www.australianbookreview.com.au

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The 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
for new and emerging poets
Prize : The 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets,
sponsored by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.

Winning entry: The major prize has increased to $5000,
Runners up : two runner-up prizes of $1000.
Submissions due: The closing date is Monday 15 November 2010.
Entry: A$11.00 (or $5.50 for subscribers) administration fee must accompany each entry.
Each entry may contain up to three unpublished poems.
Each entry must contain two copies of each poem.
You can enter as many times as you like.

The winners will be announced in March 2011.
http://web.overland.org.au/poetry-prize/

Entry form guidelines 2008 results 2009 results

Judge: The judge of the 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets is Peter Minter. Peter is a highly regarded, multi-award winning poet who has published creative and critical work in a wide range of national and international electronic and print journals, magazines and anthologies. His first book Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin was shortlisted for the 1996 New South Wales Premiers’ Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, he received the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry in 1999, and in 2000 he was awarded The Age Poetry Book of the Year for Empty Texas. In 2006 he published his fifth volume of poems, blue grass, with the Cambridge UK publisher, Salt Publishing. He was founding editor of the Varuna New Poetry broadsheet, a founding editor of Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review, co-editor of Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, and poetry editor of Meanjin from 2000 to 2005. He has guest edited two special editions of Meanjin: ‘Poetics’ in 2001 and 'Blak Times: Indigenous Australia' in 2006, and his work is anthologised in The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry and The Penguin Book of Australian Poetry.

For more about Judith Wright’s contribution to Australian poetry and Australian life, check out Georgie Arnott’s review of Wright’s correspondence.

VU–Footscray Park Campus
PO Box 14428
MELBOURNE VIC 8001
t: 03 9919 4163
f: 03 9687 7614
e: overland@vu.edu.au w: www.overland.org.au
http://web.overland.org.au/poetry-prize/

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Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) 2010 Literary Awards
Submissions due 30th November

Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Incorporated
2010 NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS
Entries open: 1 September 2010
Entries close: 30 November 2010

Please direct all enquiries/correspondence to: awards@writers.asn.au
OR:
Awards Coordinator,
FAW 2010 National Literary Awards,
The Hive Creative Centre Inc.,
710 Station Street, Box Hill, VIC, 3128

Entry forms : are enclosed with The Australian Writer.
Entry forms can be downloaded on www.writers.asn.au

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Islet on-line magazine. Summer Issue submissions due date extended to November 30 – theme: Islands
Islet and Island would like to announce a change to our publication schedule. We will now be publishing our islands-themed issues in autumn (late March/early April) and will be launching these themed issues through the Tasmanian Writers' Centre, during the 2011 Ten Days on the Island festival.

We are still calling for submissions, and would be very pleased if you would consider forwarding this information to potential contributors, via your member emails and/or community/professional/personal networks.

The new closing date is TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30 -- check the Islet submissions page for more details.

Publication opportunity for emerging writers and visual artists
Islet (www.islet.com.au) is pleased to announce the theme for its summer issue, and is now calling for submissions addressing the theme of ISLANDS.
We invite you to consider the theme imaginatively, broadly, and figuratively.

Submissions close: Tuesday November, 30
Email to : Submissions should be emailed to the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au with ‘summer issue submission’ in the subject line.
All of Islet’s standard submission guidelines still apply, including length
Poetry: poetry must be under 25 lines, reviews under 400 words, and fiction under 600 words.
Pay rates: See the Islet submissions page http://www.islet.com.au/submissions for pay rates

Please note that non-themed submissions will continue to be received for future issues.
Islet is funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council, and supported by the University of Tasmania.

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Submissions invited for the Blackened Billy Verse Competition due 30th November for Tamworth Poetry Readers’ Group

THE BLACKENED BILLY VERSE COMPETITION - ATTENTION WRITERS OF BUSH VERSE!
The 2011 Blackened Billy Verse Competition will be opening on September 1.

This is regarded as one of the most prestigious BUSH POETRY competitions in Australia.
First prize is $500 plus the famous BLACKENED BILLY TROPHY.
Second prize is $250 and third $150.

Bush poetry is a traditional type of verse written with rhyme and rhythm that reflects the Australian way of life. The genre has widened in recent years to encompass modern living in both the city and the bush. 2010 winner, Ellis Campbell, wrote on a subject which was very close to our hearts last year in a moving poem called “The Arsonist”.

Tamworth Poetry Reading Group welcomes entries from new and old writers. Entry forms will be available on September 1. Please write to Jan Morris PO Box 3001, West Tamworth or email janmorris@northnet.com.au

Entries close November 30 and the winners will be announced at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 2011.
Contact: Organisers of The Blackened Billy Verse Competition and
The Country Energy Tamworth Bush Poetry Competition
Mail to: PO BOX 3001 WEST TAMWORTH 2340

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Poetry: The Indelible Stencil project - expressions of interest sought for regional poets to be part of a creative team
Poetry: The Indelible Stencil. A message from Lizz Murphy: Are you a poet living in the Upper Lachlan or Wollondilly shires of SE NSW?

Lizz Murphy coordinator of a major regional poetry as public art project, Poetry: The Indelible Stencil, would like to hear from emerging and established poets based specifically in the Upper Lachlan and Wollondilly shires in SE NSW.

I still have one or two openings on the creative team. The project is starting up now with completion of public works planned for mid-2011. To express interest please send a bio, the town you live in and contact details to lizzmurphy@tadaust.org.au in the first instance. I will send you more info at that point. Poetry: The Indelible Stencil is a partnership with Southern Tablelands Arts (STARTS) and eight local governments. It is supported by NSW Regional Arts Fund and CASP.

I am particularly interested in hearing from poets from the following postcodes:

Wollondilly (postcodes are a loose guide: 2560-2574)
• Appin 2560
• Bargo 2574
• Belimbla Park 2570
• Brownlow Hill 2570
• Buxton 2571
• Camden Park 2570
• Cawdor 2570
• Couridjah 2571
• Douglas Park 2569
• Glenmore 2570
• Menangle 2568
• Mount Hunter 2570
• Mowbray Park 2571
• Nattai and the Burragorang Valley 2570
• Oakdale 2570
• Pheasants Nest 2574
• Picton 2571
• Razorback 2571
• Silverdale 2572
• Tahmoor 2573
• The Oaks 2570
• Theresa Park 2570
• Thirlmere 2572
• Warragamba 2572
• Wilton 2571
• Yanderra 2574
• Yerranderie ?

Upper Lachlan (postcodes are a loose guide: 2580-2583)
Crookwell 2583
Gunning 2581
Dalton “
Grabben Gullen 2583
Collector 2581
Taralga 2580
Binda 2583
Bigga & Grabine “
Tuena & Laggan “

Lizz Murphy
Project Coordinator for
Poetry: The Indelible Stencil
PO Binalong NSW 2584
Phone: 02 6227 4393
Email: lizzmurphy@tadaust.org.au

Working in partnership with Elizabeth Brown Regional Arts Development Officer
Southern Tablelands Arts (STARTS) Phone 4821 7028 Email elizabethbrown@starts.com.au

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Call for poems for Hunter Writers’ Centre monthly newsletter
Hunter Writers’ Centre will be accepting poems or short stories for the HWC monthly newsletter, so if you have something you would like published, send it in to us at hwcadmin@optusnet.net.au

Poems can be up to 30 lines, and short stories no longer than 1000 words. Excerpts from novels are also welcome. Please send documents as attachments in size 12 TNR font, and have HWC submission in the subject line of your email. They can't pay for submissions but it's a good opportunity to read local talent.

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RED ROOM COMPANY calls for submissions for SMH ‘Extra’ section
(up to 2 poems of 20 lines maximum – new and emerging poets encouraged to apply)

THE RED ROOM COMPANY IS CALLING ON POETS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA TO SUBMIT POEMS FOR PUBLICATION IN THE SUN-HERALD ‘EXTRA’ SECTION.
This new series of poems will have a focus on younger and emerging writers trying to make a name for themselves as poets. We want all styles of poetry, so that readers can get a taste of the full palate of current Australian poetry. The only limitation is space.
Submit as attachment: Please send all submissions as a simple Word .doc attachment to
Email : text@redroomcompany.org
Subject: ‘Sun Herald Extra Submission’ in the subject header.
Maximum two submissions per poet, and please, remember the size constraints when choosing work
Length: 20 lines is about the max.

REDROOM COMPANY website www.redroomcompany.org

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Mascara Literary Review (Mascara Poetry has expanded! )
Mascara Literary Review is now accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction and essays.
Mascara Literary Review is an online literary journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian (as well as Australian and Indigenous) writers.

In our current issue (Issue 7), Judith Beveridge is the featured poet. Anthony Lawrence will be the featured poet in Issue 8.

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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Cordite Poetry Review ‘Epic’ 31st issue published December 2009.
Submissions now open for Cordite Poetry Review.
Message from David Prater (Ed) – we are not accepting submissions of haiku or senryu .
Details available at www.cordite.org.au

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Jazz and Poetry section of annotated discography on jazz and literature
- Submissions invited
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 (Peter Newton) 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, on-line courses and e-anthologies for poets
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Message from NSW Australian Poetry Slam
Please visit their site to find out about the up and coming heats and events all over Australia - http://australianpoetryslam.com

Australian Poetry slam is a national writing and performance competition that works with libraries, schools, writers festivals and professional theatre spaces to inspire Australians to perform poems, stories, lyrics and monologues.

Further info: contact Felicia Eccles.
Word Travels
Australian Poetry Slam - NSW Coordinator
0401180264
http://australianpoetryslam.com/

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Islet on-line magazine – Summer issue due date for submissions extended to Tues. November 30. Theme: ‘Islands’

Islet and Island would like to announce a change to our publication schedule. We will now be publishing our islands-themed issues in autumn (late March/early April) and will be launching these themed issues through the Tasmanian Writers' Centre, during the 2011 Ten Days on the Island festival.

We are still calling for submissions, and would be very pleased if you would consider forwarding this information to potential contributors, via your member emails and/or community/professional/personal networks.

The new closing date is TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30 -- check the Islet submissions page for more details.
Publication opportunity for emerging writers and visual artists
Islet (www.islet.com.au) is pleased to announce the theme for its summer issue, and is now calling for submissions addressing the theme of ISLANDS.
We invite you to consider the theme imaginatively, broadly, and figuratively.

Submissions close: Tuesday November, 30
Email to : Submissions should be emailed to the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au with ‘summer issue submission’ in the subject line.
All of Islet’s standard submission guidelines still apply, including length
Poetry: poetry must be under 25 lines, reviews under 400 words, and fiction under 600 words.
Pay rates: See the Islet submissions page http://www.islet.com.au/submissions for pay rates

Please note that non-themed submissions will continue to be received for future issues.
Islet is funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council, and supported by the University of Tasmania.

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POETICA – ABC Radio National. Saturdays and Thursdays :
Australia-wide Poetry program - Saturdays at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursdays at 3.05 pm
October
2nd Taha Muhammed Ali – a feature on this Palestinian poet and short story writer.
9th A Pantomime of Words – the poetry collages of Nobel prize winner, Herta Müller.
16th Neruda’s Houses – a feature on Neruda’s eccentric homes and the poetry he wrote there.
23rd Senghor – the poetry of Senegalese writer and past-president, Leopold Sedar Senghor.
30th The Journey – selected works of by Irish poet, Eavan Boland.

POETICA is presented by BRENT CLOUGH and MIKE LADD - For further details please contact the producers of Poetica: Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271
Or visit the Poetica website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/

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The Greenhouse – issue # 3. Members’ submissions due Nov.15
Members email your poems directly to Peter Newton jpnewton@tpg.com.au
Email poems to: Peter J. F. Newton jpnewton@tpg.com.au

A Poets Union e-anthology of Environmental Poems edited by Peter J.F.Newton
Submissions invited and due 15th November for issue #3.

The Poets Union invites members to contribute poems to The Greenhouse, a collection of poems about the environment, to be published as an e-anthology over three tranches in 2010 on the Poets Union website. This is one of the most important issues we have ever faced.

The Greenhouse (first mounting), edited by Martin Langford NOW PUBLISHED - featuring the work of over 50 Poets Union members.

We invite Members to place your thoughts on this and subsequent issues on the Poets Union website.
Submission of entries for The Greenhouse #2 (the second mounting), co-edited by Martin Langford and Peter J.F. Newton, has closed and editing is under way.
Submission of entries for The Greenhouse #3 (the third mounting), edited by Peter J.F. Newton, is required by 15 November 2010.
Entry: Each member may submit a maximum of one poem per deadline (ie three poems over the whole year).
Editor: poet and Poets Union committee member Peter J.F. Newton will edit the submissions and direct queries to individual authors.
Biographical note: Members should also submit a 25 word biographical note the first time they submit work to the anthology.
Members Submit 1 poem: as a simple Word (.doc) attachment
Email poems to: Peter J. F. Newton jpnewton@tpg.com.au
Subject: submission 'THE GREENHOUSE' + YOUR NAME
Cost: Free to members of the Poets Union

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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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FROM THIS BROKEN HILL 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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Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm
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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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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PIFF - Poetry in Film Festival
INVITATION TO JOIN THEIR MAILING LIST
Invitation from the APC (Australian Poetry Centre in Melbourne) to join their PIFF mailing list for the Poetry in Film Festival. Click here to subscribe to their mailing list www.poetryinfilmfestival.com.au

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Knopf’s National Poetry Month http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/
If you register with Knopf’s National Poetry Month, they will email you a poem every day in April...Every year in celebration of National Poetry Month, Knopf Poetry offers a free poem—along with bonus features like beautiful broadsides, audio clips, and signed books—each day during the month of April through our Poem-a-Day emails.
Enter your email address to sign up http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/

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OTHER NEWS FOR POETS
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Cricket Poetry Award – winner announced:
Matt Young for his poem, ‘Gentleman Jim’
Matt Young’s “Gentleman Jim” wins the 2010 Cricket Poetry Award.
Over one hundred entries were received from the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Bahrain and Australia for the Cricket Poetry Award competition in 2010.
The last four poems were selected and publicly read at the Cricket Art Prize opening - Members Pavilion, Sydney Cricket Ground on October 7th.
The judges, Peter Fenton and Sally Loane agonised over which poem should win. “In the end, we had to make some tough decisions and it wasn’t an easy process.” said Peter Fenton
Sally Loane added “As judges we were drawn to poems that were more of a personal nature. Rather than depicting characters and actions, we were lured to the poet's own state of mind, emotions and views.”
“Gentleman Jim” by Matt Young pays homage to the many time-honoured and experienced umpires that diligently adjudicate the weekend games in social, grade and competition cricket over the summer.

“Gentleman Jim” by Matt Young
He brings a certain dignity
Exudes a certain charm
He works with an integrity
No fuss and no alarm

A vestige of the golden age
He has those austere looks
Like timeless art and Shakespeare’s plays
Or well thumbed fav’rite books

His essence is humanity
He’s gen’rous to the core
As all he does, he does for free
His loyalty is folklore

I don’t know ’bout his playing days
And what his stats all told
But bet he played the noble way
Within traditions fold

But now he wears the black and white
Immaculately pressed
He’s always groomed with class and pride
And always looks his best

And though time’s slightly stooped his spine
He cuts a dashing frame
And just like France’s finest wine
Age bolsters his acclaim

And every summer Sat’day sees
Old Jim out at the ground
Impartial as the summer breeze
And judgment always sound

And every player loves old Jim
Respecting his good name
And for his passion they thank him
This doyen of the game

© Matt Young 2010

For further information contact:
Derek Zilich
E-mail: derekz@cricketartprize.org
Cell: 0411 572 100
Website: www.cricketartprize.org

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Australian Poetry Ltd seeks a PUBLICATIONS MANAGER to commence January 2011 – applications Friday 22nd October

Australian Poetry Ltd is a new organisation about to be launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre based in Melbourne and Poets Union based in NSW. It will be the peak industry body for poetry in this country, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Australian Poetry is seeking a Publications Manager to oversee the publications arm of the organisation, including the publication, marketing and distribution of our flagship poetry journal.

The selected candidate will have broad experience in a similar role with a relevant organisation, and have a clear passion and vision for the position. This is a full time paid position and will commence January 2011.

Deadline for applications is 5pm Friday October 22nd.
To find out more information or apply, please email paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au
for a position description and the selection criteria.

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Australian Poetry Ltd seeks a NSW STATE DIRECTOR

Australian Poetry Ltd is a new organization due to be launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre based in Melbourne and Poets Union based in NSW. It will be the peak industry body for poetry in this country with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Australian Poetry is seeking a NSW State Director to be based in Sydney and work with the National Director in planning and executing the NSW component of the National Program. The State Director should have strong management experience, leadership skills and experience in a similar role for a relevant organisation. This is a part time role in 2011.

To apply for this position, please email National Director, Paul Kooperman, at paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au for a position description and selection criteria.

Deadline for submissions is Friday November 13th.

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4 finalists announced in the Cricket Poetry Prize
The 4 poems to go which were re-read at the Cricket Art Prize opening on Thursday 7th Oct were:

1. “The Ton” by Peter Harvey – QLD (to be read by Sean Barker)
2. “The Last Over” by Maureen Sudlow – New Zealand (to be read by Nicole Campbell)
3.”Gentleman Jim” by Matt Young – QLD (to be read by Duncan Fellows)
4. “Evolution” by Nerelie Teese – VIC (to be read by Jessica Keath)

A very enjoyable night was had by all at the Australian Youth Hotel where we saw and heard the top 20 poems being read by 4 accomplished actors:
• Sean Barker
• Nicole Campbell
• Duncan Fellows
• Jessica Keath

And being ‘umpired’ by 2 proficient judges:
• Sally Loane
• Peter Fenton

Sally and Peter had a very challenging time when reading and re-reading all poems; having to make some very hard decisions in the end to get the field down to 20; then select the last 4 for the ‘finals’ at the Cricket Art Prize Opening on Thursday 7th October.
But, a big thank you goes out to all the poets, writers and authors who submitted entries, as quite obviously, without their support and participation we would not have the international poetry competition that we have now. Literally, we had entries from the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Bahrain and Australia.

Twenty shortlisted poets for the Cricket Poetry Prize:
In no particular order, the 20 finalists were:

1. Australian Job by Lillian Allen – SA
2. A Sonnet to Cricket by Don Adams - New Zealand
3. Backyard Internationals by Glen Butcher – SA
4. Clancy of the Overthrow by David Campbell – VIC
5. Batting Order by Natasha Dennerstein – New Zealand
6. The First Delivery by Nigel Ford – SA
7. The Ton by Peter Harvey – QLD
8. Cricket's Last Stand by Brian Sam Hallewell – QLD
9. Backyard Century by Ian Keast - NSW
10. Stumps Balls and Willow (Our View) by Audrey Lawrence – QLD
11. Three Bats by Alfred Marks – NSW
12. Country Cricketers Childhood by Mark Miller – NSW
13. Testing Times by Brian McLoughlin – NSW
14. My Father's Bat by Rhonda Poholke – VIC
15. Gentleman Jim by Matt Young – QLD
16. Me Neighbour's Kid by Ian Swift – NSW
17. The Last Over by Maureen Sudlow – New Zealand
18. Evolution by Nerelie Teese – VIC
19. Setting the Scene by Noel Tennison – VIC
20. Summer Salvation by Leanne Wicks – NSW

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Scanlon Prize for a collection of Indigenous Poetry – Jeanine Leane
2010 Winner of the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry

At the Poets Union Australian Poetry Festival held in The Rex Centre, Kings Cross, Sydney (4-5 September) the judge for this year’s Scanlon Prize, Yvette Holt from Queensland, announced and introduced the winner, Jeanine Leane, for her book of poems Dark Secrets (PressPress, 2010).

In the judge’s words "Leane's journey is interwoven with post-colonial stitches of a matriarchal society. Aboriginal women's voices echo throughout this divine collection of contemporary storytelling."
Ms Holt added that the Scanlon Prize “is an award of national significance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander poets to aspire to in recognition of their published poetry, independent of state literary awards.”

Jeanine Leane is a writer and educator who lives in Canberra, ACT.

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Ian Reed Foundation 2010 - Writers-in-residence announced
Ian Reed Foundation 2010 writers-in-residence announced

Following a call-out by the Ian Reed Foundation, nearly 200 writers applied for two writer-in-residence opportunities with ABC Radio National. Congratulations to composer/writer Rosalind Page from regional New South Wales, who will work on her play Wildlife and Michele Lee from Melbourne, with her work See how the Leaf People Run.

These residencies will be based in ABC Radio National’s drama unit in Melbourne and Sydney.

Applications were received from all over Australia from writers who have not previously written for radio including poets, essayists, journalists and songwriters. In addition to creating a work for potential broadcast, the successful recipients will have the chance to observe work on other productions and to collaborate with ABC Radio National’s award-winning sound engineers and drama producers.

Michele Lee's play See how the Leaf People Run is about an orphan Hmong boy, Charlie, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder who almost drowned trying to cross the Mekong river to get from Laos, to Thailand and then to Melbourne.

“I'm really looking forward to learning more about the medium and the process of production,” Michele Lee said when her successful application was announced.

Michele’s Ian Reed Foundation residency comes hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of her appointment as a 2010 Melbourne Theatre Company Emerging Writer.

“The opportunity to work with percussionist Claire Edwards to further develop Wildlife is beyond my wildest dreams - just thrilling news!”, said composer/writer Rosalind Page.

Ian Reed was a notable Australian writer of radio drama. He loved the freedom of the medium and when he died in 1979 he left the bulk of his estate to the ABC to encourage ‘potential and aspiring’ writers of radio drama. The Ian Reed Foundation administers the fund that is used to provide for competitions, workshops, script development and dramaturgy as well as other activities intended to support new writers for radio.

For further information about the Ian Reed Foundation, visit abc.net.au/rn/ianreed

For media enquiries, please contact Nicola Fern, Marketing Manager, ABC Radio National on 03 9626 1758 or fern.nicola@abc.net.au

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Gum Blossom’s Poetry 2010 – Results:
Results Gum Blossoms 2010 Poetry

First Place: daybreak over mt.sondard- by Colleen Keating
Second Place: driftwood - by Orchid Tierney

Very Highly Commended:
Pressed Love - by David Troman
gregorian cats - by Frank Prem
Feather Falls - by Joanne Mills
Argent Bark - by David Troman

Highly Commended:
Walking Libations - by John Ryan
A Common Thread - by Joan Fenney
Tingha - by Joe Massingham
crimson rosella - by Colleen Keating
Illusion - by Dale Harcombe
The Pixel Pixies - by David Troman
Longing - by Colleen Keating

Commended:
Family Matters - by Adele Jones
On Bullock Mountain - by Joe Massingham
In a Flash of Brilliance - by Jacqui Merckenschlager
Overwhelmed - by Marilyn Humbert
Old Life Dreams - by David J. Delaney
listen- by Colleen Keating

Judge's Comments: Ruth Strachan

Always, Gum Blossoms delights me with the variety of poetry styles submitted. Surprisingly this year we have a number of poets receiving multiple places. While this confirms we have acknowledged our best poets, it means we have less room to publish other worthwhile poetry. It is always sad to lay aside good poems.

First place this year goes to daybreak over mt.sondar. The originality in this appeals . Imagery, simile, metaphor and personification help to build the atmosphere, and when read aloud good cadences are heard. The conclusion carries an impact that causes serious consideration.

In second place is driftwood, a prose poem. The echoing of ‘watch’ and the restrained alliteration make this attractive to the ear. It gives the reader something to think through, and we feel the emotion present. There are four Very Highly Commended poems this year! Any one of them could have been a winner in other circumstances. Well done.

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Poet Philip Gross is the winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for his collection of poems ‘I Spy Pinhole Eye’

The Winner is … Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)
Poet Philip Gross has won the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for I Spy Pinhole Eye - a collection of poems published by Cinnamon Press. The announcement was made on Wednesday 30 June at a Gala Dinner at St David’s Hotel in Cardiff, introduced by BBC Wales Political Editor, Betsan Powys. Gross was presented with the £10,000 prize by Minister for Heritage, Alun Ffred Jones.
Philip Gross is the author of twelve poetry collections, including The Water Table which won the T S Eliot Prize 2010, as well as a fiction writer, dramatist and Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. He lives in Cardiff.
I Spy Pinhole Eye is a collaborative work between poet and photographer. Simon Denison uses a pinhole camera to transform that most mundane of objects – the footings of electricity pylons - while Philip Gross’s poems explore the act of seeing and interpretation.

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Congratulations to Nathan Curnow winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for his poem endtime

Nathan Curnow is the winner of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2010 for his poem endtime.

2010 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize winners:
First Prize ($10,000) ‘endtime’ by Nathan Curnow, Victoria
Second Prize ($5,000) ‘Always Sometimes Never’ by Andrew Slattery, New South Wales
Commended ($2,500) ‘One Broken Knife’ by Carmen Leigh Keates, Queensland
Commended ($2,500) ‘Dead Sea Psalms’ by Jill Pattinson, Victoria
Judges' comments: http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Read the 2009 and 2010 winners and see the judges' comments at http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Visit the Griffith University website http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/school-humanities/news-and-events/josephine-ulrick-prizes

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Jordie Albiston winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier’s Award for Literature) for her collection ‘the sonnet according to ‘m’

Jordie Albiston lives in Melbourne, where she was born in 1961. She is a poet whose work frequently reflects historical research. Australian composer Andrée Greenwell has adapted two of her books (Botany Bay Document, 1996 - retitled Dreaming Transportation - and The Hanging of Jean Lee, 1998) for music-theatre: both enjoyed seasons at the Sydney Opera House.

Nervous Arcs won the Mary Gilmore Award for a first book of Australian poetry in 1995, and was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize. Her fourth collection, The Fall, was shortlisted for Premier's Prizes in Victoria, NSW and Queensland. Here fifth, Vertigoa cantata was published by John Leonard Press, in 2007. She holds a PhD in literature.

The letter ‘m' is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmother and the poet. Jordie Albiston, with characteristic delicacy and zest, limns these very different women as perspectives to each other.
Recurrence is intrinsic to sonnets. They are patterned internally, and are often paroxysmal: a perfect form and formation for poems which worry the distinction between the fatal and the banal. The sequence tells what happens when you admit the existential into everyday life, in small or large doses. The results can be desolate, or sublime. And comedic as well: Albiston knows how to play between darkness and send-up, when it comes to an arduous and animating tension between body and mind.

The Sonnet According to 'M' is published by John Leonard Press
Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to ‘m'

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Derek Motion - winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets for his work 'forest hill'

07 Apr 2010 : A national prize held in honour of Australian poet Judith Wright has been awarded to Charles Sturt University (CSU) postgraduate student, Mr Derek Motion. The 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, valued at $3 000, has been won by the poet and PhD student for his work, ‘forest hill’.

The successful poets featured at a presentation event at the Melbourne Emerging Writers’ Festival on Saturday 29 May, alongside Keri Glastonbury and Gig Ryan (poetry editors of Overland and The Age respectively).
In addition to the prize money, Mr Motion’s poem will be published in the next issue of Overland, a quarterly e-bulletin about events, politics and literature. He was presented the poetry award at the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival in the Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday 29 May.

Commenting on the winning entries including Mr Motion’s work, judge Dr Keri Glastonbury found, “…this loose-knit community is where a lot of the energy and action in Australian poetry is, and I look forward to seeing these poets release first books”.
Mr David Gilbey, Senior Lecturer in English at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga said, “I'm delighted at Derek's continuing success in the lists of Australian letters. Derek's poetry is concentrated, allusive, multi-faceted, drawing on literary traditions and contemporary cultural and technological practices. It is also finely human and wittily self-facing - a pleasure to read.

“Like Judith Wright's poetry, Derek combines metaphysical, personal and social concerns. He richly deserves this award and it's a mark of the modernity and integrity of the judging that his poetry has been recognised.”

Mr Motion named his poem ‘forest hill' after the area on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga where he spent some of his early years and where went to primary school.
“In particular I think I was concerned with locating imagery surrounding the time when you start to become who you are; a kind of site of individuation and thinking about what this means for the adult me,” Mr Motion said.

It is not the first time the CSU postgraduate student has had his work honoured at the national level. In October 2009, Mr Motion received an Australia Council 2010 Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Initiative Grant, valued at $15 000. Read more here.

Mr Motion is doing his PhD through the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga. His research focuses on his own poetry in the context of Australian poets, Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) and Michael Dransfield (1948-1973).

Living in Wagga Wagga with his young family, Mr Motion is also Director of the Booranga Writers’ Centre at CSU.

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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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Emma Jones WINNER Best First Collection, FORWARD PRIZE for her collection ‘The Striped World’
Congratulations to Australian poet, 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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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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Best wishes,
Cathy Bray
for Brook Emery and the Poets Union committee,
Poets Union Inc,
PO Box 755,
POTTS POINT NSW 1335

Tel. (02) 9357 6602 (Tuesdays & Wednesdays)
Email: info@poetsunion.com Please visit the Poets Union website: www.poetsunion.com and our new blog: www.poetsunioninc.blogspot.com

Poets Union e-news from October 10

2010-10-10T04:27:00.000-07:00

Dear Poets Union Members and Friends,

Australian Poetry Ltd seeks a PUBLICATIONS MANAGER to commence January 2011 – applications Friday 22nd October

Australian Poetry Ltd is a new organisation about to be launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre based in Melbourne and Poets Union based in NSW. It will be the peak industry body for poetry in this country, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Australian Poetry is seeking a Publications Manager to oversee the publications arm of the organisation, including the publication, marketing and distribution of our flagship poetry journal.

The selected candidate will have broad experience in a similar role with a relevant organisation, and have a clear passion and vision for the position. This is a full time paid position and will commence January 2011.

Deadline for applications is 5pm Friday October 22nd.
To find out more information or apply, please email paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au
for a position description and the selection criteria.

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RED ROOM COMPANY calls for submissions for SMH ‘Extra’ section
(up to 2 poems of 20 lines maximum – new and emerging poets encouraged to apply)

THE RED ROOM COMPANY IS CALLING ON POETS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA TO SUBMIT POEMS FOR PUBLICATION IN THE SUN-HERALD ‘EXTRA’ SECTION.
This new series of poems will have a focus on younger and emerging writers trying to make a name for themselves as poets. We want all styles of poetry, so that readers can get a taste of the full palate of current Australian poetry. The only limitation is space.
Submit as attachment: Please send all submissions as a simple Word .doc attachment to
Email : text@redroomcompany.org
Subject: ‘Sun Herald Extra Submission’ in the subject header.
Maximum two submissions per poet, and please, remember the size constraints when choosing work
Length: 20 lines is about the max.
REDROOM COMPANY website www.redroomcompany.org

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Mascara Literary Review (Mascara Poetry has expanded! )
Mascara Literary Review is now accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction and essays.
Mascara Literary Review is an online literary journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian (as well as Australian and Indigenous) writers.

In our current issue (Issue 7), Judith Beveridge is the featured poet. Anthony Lawrence will be the featured poet in Issue 8.

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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POETRY EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND READINGS
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Message from Paul Kooperman at the Australian Poetry Centre –
meet the Poet in Residence, Lisa Gorton: Wed. 13 October.

Dear Members, friends and associates,
I am proud to announce our first Poet in Residence, supported by the State Government of Victoria through Arts Victoria and City of Literature initiative as well as CAL, RMIT and the Australia Council.
Lisa Gorton, winner of the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry, author of children’s novel, Cloudland, essayist, reviewer, and winner of the John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies, is resident poet at the Australian Poetry Centre from September 1st until Nov 30th. She is here to write poetry, but will also give a couple of workshops and readings and allow time to meet and chat with aspiring poets.
Although Lisa will be having national impact through her online workshops and web publications, the following events are in Melbourne at the Wheeler Centre, where she will be based:

Meet the Poet
On Wednesdays October 13, 27, Nov 10 and 24 between 12:30-1pm, Lisa Gorton is available for informal chats, discussion about her work, your work and all things poetry. If you get the chance, this is a (free) rare opportunity to get up and close and personal with one of Australia’s leading poets.

Date: Lisa’s next ‘meet the poet’ session’ will be on October 13
Time : 12.30 – 1.00 pm

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Saturday 16th October Perth Poetry Club is back
(Moon was up for repairs in September)

Satuday 16th Ocotber - We are well and truly back!
2-4pm at The Moon, 323 William Street, Northbridge.
Plus open mike. All welcome. Come and listen.

Info, contact info & artist bios: www.perthpoetryclub.com

Plus open mike, naturally.
2-4pm at The Moon, 323 William Street, Northbridge.
Contact: www.perthpoetryclub.com
perthpoetryclub@gmail.com 0406 624 578

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20 October – Auburn Poets & Writers’ Group
welcomes new members
The Auburn Poets & Writers Group welcomes new members

When: third Wednesday of the month
Date: Wed. 20th October
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Auburn Community Development Network Inc.
Address: Shop P7B
Cnr Park & Queen Streets,
Auburn.

Contact: Auburn Poets and Writers Group
Email: manager@acdn.org.au
or
auburnarts@acdn.org.au
More information: Jenn Martin, Community Liaison Librarian, Auburn City Library Service at Auburn City Library
Email: jenn.martin@auburn.nsw.gov.au

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Sun. 24th October – Brett Whiteley Studio: Poets Union monthly reading – guest poet will be Rae Desmond Jones
The Poets Union monthly poetry reading is held on the fourth Sunday of the month. This month, Sunday 24th October, at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Sydney.

Date: Sunday 24th October
Guest poet : Rae Desmond Jones
Venue: Brett Whiteley Studio
Address: 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills (off Devonshire Street, via Esther Street and Esther Lane)
Time: 2.00 - 3.30 pm
Free entry. Open Mic included.

Rae Desmond Jones was born in the mining town of Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales. Although many of his poems and stories are concerned with urban experience, he has always felt that desert landscapes are central to his language and perception. He was mayor of Ashfield, an inner Sydney Municipality, from 2004 to 2006, and during that period, held together a broad coalition of Labor Party, Green and Independent representatives. His volume of poetry Blow out was published by Island Press in 2008.

The Poets Union thanks the Brett Whiteley Studio staff and the Art Gallery of NSW for their support and we thank Rosnay wines for their wonderful wine and sponsorship.

Convenor: Angela Stretch for Poets Union Inc. Enquiries for 2010 : 0438 898 578

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Mon 25 October - Sydney Poetry book club meets to discuss
Jennifer Maiden's ‘Pirate Rain’

Date: Monday 25 October, 2010
Book for discussion on 25 Oct: Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden
Venue: Madam Fling Flong (upstairs salon) above Soni’s Bar
Address: Level 1, 169 King Street, Newtown.
Time: 7.00 – 9.00 pm

About Sydney Poetry bookclub – the second sydneypoetry.com bookclub will convene at 7 pm on Monday 30th August upstairs at Madam Fling Flong’s (aka Soni’s –which is the downstairs part of 169 King Street, Newtown) to discuss Judith Beveridge’s Storm and Honey.

What you need to do between now and then: read the book (Pirate Rain), develop an opinion.
About Jennifer Maiden
Jennifer Maiden has won the N.S.W. Premier’s Award for Poetry twice, the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry, the Christopher Brennan Award for a lifetime of achievement in poetry, and many other prizes. Her recent poetry books include Acoustic Shadow (1993), Mines (1999) and Friendly Fire (2005), which won the Age Book of the Year Award.

About the venue (Madam Fling Flong) – sometimes there are private functions upstairs, so if we are not there, we’ll be perched in the front bar downstairs (aka Soni’s).

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7.30 pm Wed 27th Oct. in North Sydney – Live Poets @ Don Bank
with guest poet tbc
Don Bank on Wednesday, October 27
Date: Wednesday, October 27
Time: doors open from 7.30 pm
Event: Live Poets @ Don Bank
Venue: Don Bank Museum
Address: 6 Napier St,
North Sydney
Entry: $7 entry includes supper and drinks.

SPECIAL GUEST:
The Open Section features: the Poetry of the First Peoples - the tradition of Oral Poetry and its Role.
Alternatively: anyone is welcome to recite, sing, tell a story or play an instrument.
Doors open 7.30 pm. $7 entry includes supper and drinks.
Further info: Danny Gardner (02) 9896 6956 Mobile: 0422 263 373 or at:
dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au

As usual there wil be an open section where anyone is welcome to recite, sing, tell a story or play an instrument.
Doors open 7.30 pm. $7 entry includes supper and drinks.
Further details: (02) 9896 6956 Mobile 0422 263 373 or at:
dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au

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In Sydney – RhiZomic Poetry Party –
Wednesday, October 27
Poetry Party and open-mic. Featuring: tbc

Date: Wednesday October 27 - last Wed of the month (this time it’s the 4th Wednesday)
Time: 7-9 PM
Event: RhiZomiC Poetry (the last Wednesday of every month)
Venue: Kerrie Lowe Gallery
Address: 49 King St. Newtown
Kerrie Lowe and Elisabeth Johnson
Kerrie Lowe Gallery
49 - 51 King St, Newtown 2042
Phone - 9550 4433 / Fax - 9550 1996
Web - www.kerrielowe.com
Mon-Sat 10am - 5.30 pm / Thurs till 7

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2nd November - in Glebe: WordinHand @ TheFriendinHand
In Glebe – WordinHand @ the FriendinHand

Event: WordinHand is Sydney’s premier regular and enduring poetry / spoken word event, providing open mike opportunities for voices directly from the Sydney community plus a high-energy poetry slam every month in addition to a featured poet or two.

Guest poets and Open mic.
Date: Tuesday 2nd November (First Tuesdays except January)
Time: 7:30 for 8:00 PM.
Venue: The Friend in Hand Hotel
Address: 58 Cowper Street Glebe
Tel. (02) 9660 2326.
Entry by donation: $10/$5.
Slam Prize: $50.
Check it out at the new and improved site, on the WordinHand Events Calendar.
And while you're there, why not read Tug Dumbly's and Benito Di Fonzo's takes on Bardflys, the long-running poetry nights at The Friend in Hand that preceded WordinHand?

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Rama Lama Ding Dong and ‘What Comes First?’ – Friday 5th Nov. presentations of short-listed entries for the ‘What Comes First?’ Song Writing Competition

RAMA LAMA DING DONG
“Lyrics don’t mean anything! Like ‘Rama-lama-ding-dong’ or ‘Give Peace a Chance’!” Homer Simpson

Event: short-listed applicants will sing, Karaoke style, their lyrics to James' music on the night, hoping their words will be the perfect fit for the song.
Date: Friday 5 November
Time: 7.30pm
Location: Wheeler Centre,
Address: 176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne
Free event, book here, via on the Wheeler Centre website.

The Edsels released, “Rama Lama Ding Dong” in 1958 which became a national hit, but surely not because of the lyrics. Would Bach have been better with words? What would Gilbert be without Sullivan or Rodgers without Hammerstein? And what comes first, the music or the lyrics?

On November 5th, the Australian Poetry Centre has decided the music comes first, with a competition called What Comes First, offering poets and wordsmiths all over Australia the chance to write the lyrics for a new hit single! The music has been written by established composer/music producer, James Roche (from Bachelor Girl).

Lyrics are currently being submitted and short-listed applicants will sing, Karaoke style, their lyrics to James' music on the night, hoping their words will be the perfect fit for the song. Rama Lama Ding Dong is a partnership between the Wheeler Centre and Australian Poetry Centre and we invite you to what should be a very entertaining evening of words and music. Listen to the music here .
This event is in partnership with the the Australian Poetry Centre.

Deadline for WHAT COMES FIRST song writing competition was September 30. They had the tune, but needed your lyrics.

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In Mt. Lawley WA ‘Expand your Boundaries’ poetry workshop
'Expand your Boundaries' poetry workshops
14 Nov 2010

Event: ‘Expand your Boundaries’ contemporary poetry workshops.
Date(s) : Sunday 14 November 2010
Time: 2-5pm,
Venue: Mt Lawley Neighbourhood Learning Centre
Address: 715 Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley

Cost: Participants will be asked to contribute according to their means. The suggested amount is $30 per session, but please pay what you can afford or feel the workshop is worth.
Limited places: book now. 0406 624 578 or lostpoetjj@gmail.com

Expand the boundaries of your poetry by writing and reading. Workshops include:
• Writing experiments: write in ways you may not have previously tried.
• How poetry works in English: how form can create feeling.
• Handouts with example poems, information and poets’ resources.
• Afternoon tea.
At the workshops we talk about different aspects of poetry and do different experiments. The workshops are suitable for beginning poets as well as those with some experience.
More info: www.proximitypoetry.com
Janet , Janet Jackson: Words with attitude & soul
Poems, performances, workshops, courses, events
Creative, technical and corporate writing
Editing, manuscript production, self-publishing

lostpoetjj@gmail.com
www.proximitypoetry.com
0406 624 578 (Australia)
+61 406 624 578 (World)
PO Box 258, Darlington WA 6070, Australia

Perth Poetry Club: www.perthpoetryclub.com
Breastfeeding info & help: www.breastfeeding.asn.au

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Author’s talk at Newtown Library – Cathy Bray reading from her chapbook ‘The Owl’ and reflecting on ‘Mad Woman’s Breakfast’
Event: Cathy Bray – poetry reading including her 2010 chapbook ‘The Owl’ (from Picaro Press) and poems and reflections on her Sydney Fringe show ‘Mad Woman’s Breakfast. Eat my Bush!’ broaching Australian ambivalence towards America explored with 11 of her own poems in a ‘poetry salon gone mad’ at Madam Fling Flong in Newtown.

Date: Sunday 21st November
Time: 2-4 PM
Venue: Newtown Library
Address:

Thanks to Steve Mitchell, Newtown Library Team Leader and the City of Sydney Libraries.

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COMPETITIONS, PRIZES and SUBMISSIONS
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Inverawe Nature Poetry Competition - entries due Oct 11

Message from Margaret Chestnut: Hi - we are up and running for the 2010 Inverawe Nature Poetry Competition, now in its fifth year.
Entry forms are on the web www.inverawe.com.au and follow the poetry link.
The entry forms will also be in the June edition of Island Magazine.
First prize $1000, minor award $300, Tasmanian residents $300, emerging poet $200.
Conditions: The competition is for a poem not exceeding 28 lines, on a nature theme.
Entry fee: $6 per poem, maximum three poems per poet.
Details and feedback: Last year’s winning poem and the judges’ report are on the website www.inverawe.com.au
Judge: As last year, Adrienne Eberhard will judge the competition.
Closing date: The closing date for entries is October 11, 2010.

Regards, Margaret Chestnut
Inverawe Native Gardens
Tasmania’s Largest Landscaped Native Garden
www.inverawe.com.au
gardens@inverawe.com.au
ph 03 6267 2020

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Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize- closing 15th October
Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize for a poem up to 40 lines. This competition, which was run for many years by Ballarat Writers, has been relaunched in 2010.
$1,000 prize to be won! The judge is Judish Rodriguez.
Entry is $10 and it is open to Australian and internation writers. Entry by post or online.
Details: http://www.ballaratwriters.com
Contact: Bronwyn Blaiklock- info@ballaratwriters.com

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2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – nominations due Oct 18

Nominations for the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards are now open.

The New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers. Administered by Arts NSW, the 2011 Awards are valued at $315,000 in total, including the Special Award and Book of the Year.

In 2011, nominations are sought for the following awards:

• The Christina Stead Prize ($40,000)
• The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5,000)
• The Douglas Stewart Prize ($40,000)
• The Kenneth Slessor Prize ($30,000)
• The Patricia Wrightson Prize ($30,000)
• The Ethel Turner Prize ($30,000)
• The Play Award ($30,000)
• The Script Writing Award ($30,000)
• The Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW Award ($20,000)

Nomination forms and guidelines are for download at www.pla.nsw.gov.au or contact Arts NSW (Email: arts.funding@communities.nsw.gov.au, Phone: (02) 9228 5533, Freecall in NSW: 1800 358 594).

Closing date - Nominations need to be received at Arts NSW by 5pm, Monday 18 October 2010.

The Guidelines and Nomination form for the 2011 NSW Premier's Translation Prize and PEN Medallion for Australian translators who translate work into English from other languages will be available shortly.

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Melbourne Poets Union – International Poetry Competition 2010 due by Friday 29 October
MELBOURNE POETS UNION - Established 1977

Competition: INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION 2010
Prizes: $1,000 First Prize $300 Second Prize $200 third prize
+ $100 Martin Downey Urban Realist Award
+ Plus Book Vouchers for Highly Commended & Books for Commended
Judge: Competition Judge – Ron Pretty
Poems: not more than 50 lines
Due: Friday 29th October (see conditions below)
Entry form: Download Entry Forms from MPU’s Website http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mpuinc
More Information: Contact for MPU Inc is Leon Shann
Tel. 03 9386 6259 or email shann3056@optusnet.com.au
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
 poems should be in English, unpublished, not accepted or submitted for publication
 elsewhere and must be your original work
 poems should not be entered in any other competition, or have previously been a winner
 in any other competition
 may be on any theme, maximum 50 lines and must be typed
 shall not bear the poet’s name
 entries should be received by Friday 29th October 2010, or postmarked that date
 entries must be accompanied by cheque/money order payable to Melbourne Poets Union
 and addressed to Melbourne Poets Union, PO Box 266, Flinders Lane, Vic 8009
 $7 per poem or $13 for 2 poems or $18 for 3 poems (no cash please)
NOTE
 entry fees are not refundable
 there is no limit to the number of entries an individual may submit
 failure to meet any of these conditions shall render the poems ineligible
 please enclose a self stamped address envelope (SSAE) for results
 the judge’s decision is final - no correspondence shall be entered into.
 MPU reserves the right to publish the winning poem/s on their website.

Entry Forms – please download from MPU’s Website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mpuinc
Sponsors: Black Inc Books, Black Pepper Publishing, The Paperback Bookshop

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Fellowship of Australia Writers – Mornington Peninsular Prize
poetry submissions invited by Oct 29
The Mornington Peninsula Prize 2010 - Offered by the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic) Peninsula Region

Poetry Competition: A poem of up to 30 lines: open theme and style.
First Prize : $200, Highly Commended and Commended certificates.
Entry Fee: $5.00 per poem.
Due date: Competition closes 29th October 2010.
Open to residents of Australia.
Entry form / results sheet, please send a SSAE to
P.O. Box 574, MORNINGTON, VIC, 3931,
or email peninsulafaw@bigpond.com
Conditions of Entry:
• Poems must be entrant’s own work, must not have been published and must not have been awarded First Prize in any other competition.
• A fully completed entry form is required; blank entry forms may be photocopied.
• Please avoid using fancy fonts.
• Single-sided on A4 white paper.
• Entrant’s name not to appear on manuscript, only on entry form.
• No email submissions accepted.
• Multiple entries accepted, but each poem entered requires the nominated fee.
• Please note that entries breaching these conditions will be disqualified by the Competition Co-ordinator. The judge(s) will determine prizes and commendations.

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The Greenhouse – Poets Union e-anthology
Submissions invited from members and due 15th Nov. issue #3. Members please email your poems directly to Peter Newton:
jpnewton@tpg.com.au

A Poets Union e-anthology of Environmental Poems edited by Peter J.F.Newton
Submissions invited and due 15th November for issue #3.

The Poets Union invites members to contribute poems to The Greenhouse, a collection of poems about the environment, to be published as an e-anthology over three tranches in 2010 on the Poets Union website. This is one of the most important issues we have ever faced.

The Greenhouse (first mounting), edited by Martin Langford NOW PUBLISHED - featuring the work of over 50 Poets Union members.

We invite Members to place your thoughts on this and subsequent issues on the Poets Union website.
Submission of entries for The Greenhouse #2 (the second mounting), co-edited by Martin Langford and Peter J.F. Newton, has closed and editing is under way.
Submission of entries for The Greenhouse #3 (the third mounting), edited by Peter J.F. Newton, is required by 15 November 2010.
Entry: Each member may submit a maximum of one poem per deadline (ie three poems over the whole year).
Editor: poet and Poets Union committee member Peter J.F. Newton will edit the submissions and direct queries to individual authors.
Biographical note: Members should also submit a 25 word biographical note the first time they submit work to the anthology.

Members Submit 1 poem: as a simple Word (.doc) attachment
Email poems to: Peter J. F. Newton jpnewton@tpg.com.au
Subject: submission 'THE GREENHOUSE' + YOUR NAME
Cost: Free to members of the Poets Union

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Peter Porter Poetry Prize submissions invited and due 15 Nov.
PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE

Entry to the seventh annual Australian Book Review poetry prize – renamed the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, in memory of the late Australian poet – is now open.

First prize: $4000
Shortlisted poems: $250
Closing date: 15 November 2010

The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry, and guarantees winners wide exposure through publication in ABR.

PREVIOUS WINNERS: Stephen Edgar (2005), Judith Bishop (2006), Alex Skovron (2007)
Ross Clark (2008), Tracy Ryan (2009), Anthony Lawrence (2010)

The guidelines and entry form are now available on the ABR website http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/

Poets must reside in Australia or be Australian citizens living overseas.
Each entry must be a single poem of no more than 100 lines.
Multiple entries are permitted, and all poems will be judged anonymously.
A shortlist comprising a maximum of six poems will be announced and those poems published in the March 2011 issue of ABR. The winner will be announced in the April 2011 issue.

Peter Rose, Editor Australian Book Review
Tel: (03) 9429 6700
Email: editor@australianbookreview.com.au
www.australianbookreview.com.au

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Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) 2010 Literary Awards
Submissions due 30th November

Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Incorporated
2010 NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS
Entries open: 1 September 2010
Entries close: 30 November 2010

Please direct all enquiries/correspondence to: awards@writers.asn.au
OR:
Awards Coordinator,
FAW 2010 National Literary Awards,
The Hive Creative Centre Inc.,
710 Station Street, Box Hill, VIC, 3128

Entry forms : are enclosed with The Australian Writer.
Entry forms They can be downloaded on www.writers.asn.au

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Islet on-line magazine. Summer Issue submissions due date extended to November 30 – theme: Islands
Islet and Island would like to announce a change to our publication schedule. We will now be publishing our islands-themed issues in autumn (late March/early April) and will be launching these themed issues through the Tasmanian Writers' Centre, during the 2011 Ten Days on the Island festival.

We are still calling for submissions, and would be very pleased if you would consider forwarding this information to potential contributors, via your member emails and/or community/professional/personal networks.

The new closing date is TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30 -- check the Islet submissions page for more details.

Publication opportunity for emerging writers and visual artists
Islet (www.islet.com.au) is pleased to announce the theme for its summer issue, and is now calling for submissions addressing the theme of ISLANDS.
We invite you to consider the theme imaginatively, broadly, and figuratively.

Submissions close: Tuesday November, 30
Email to : Submissions should be emailed to the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au with ‘summer issue submission’ in the subject line.
All of Islet’s standard submission guidelines still apply, including length
Poetry: poetry must be under 25 lines, reviews under 400 words, and fiction under 600 words.
Pay rates: See the Islet submissions page http://www.islet.com.au/submissions for pay rates

Please note that non-themed submissions will continue to be received for future issues.
Islet is funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council, and supported by the University of Tasmania.

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Submissions invited for the Blackened Billy Verse Competition due 30th November for Tamworth Poetry Readers’ Group

THE BLACKENED BILLY VERSE COMPETITION - ATTENTION WRITERS OF BUSH VERSE!
The 2011 Blackened Billy Verse Competition will be opening on September 1.

This is regarded as one of the most prestigious BUSH POETRY competitions in Australia.
First prize is $500 plus the famous BLACKENED BILLY TROPHY.
Second prize is $250 and third $150.

Bush poetry is a traditional type of verse written with rhyme and rhythm that reflects the Australian way of life. The genre has widened in recent years to encompass modern living in both the city and the bush. 2010 winner, Ellis Campbell, wrote on a subject which was very close to our hearts last year in a moving poem called “The Arsonist”.

Tamworth Poetry Reading Group welcomes entries from new and old writers. Entry forms will be available on September 1. Please write to Jan Morris PO Box 3001, West Tamworth or email janmorris@northnet.com.au

Entries close November 30 and the winners will be announced at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 2011.
Contact: Organisers of The Blackened Billy Verse Competition and
The Country Energy Tamworth Bush Poetry Competition
Mail to: PO BOX 3001 WEST TAMWORTH 2340

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Call for poems for Hunter Writers’ Centre monthly newsletter
Hunter Writers’ Centre will be accepting poems or short stories for the HWC monthly newsletter, so if you have something you would like published, send it in to us at hwcadmin@optusnet.net.au

Poems can be up to 30 lines, and short stories no longer than 1000 words. Excerpts from novels are also welcome. Please send documents as attachments in size 12 TNR font, and have HWC submission in the subject line of your email. They can't pay for submissions but it's a good opportunity to read local talent.

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RED ROOM COMPANY calls for submissions for SMH ‘Extra’ section
(up to 2 poems of 20 lines maximum – new and emerging poets encouraged to apply)

THE RED ROOM COMPANY IS CALLING ON POETS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA TO SUBMIT POEMS FOR PUBLICATION IN THE SUN-HERALD ‘EXTRA’ SECTION.
This new series of poems will have a focus on younger and emerging writers trying to make a name for themselves as poets. We want all styles of poetry, so that readers can get a taste of the full palate of current Australian poetry. The only limitation is space.
Submit as attachment: Please send all submissions as a simple Word .doc attachment to
Email : text@redroomcompany.org
Subject: ‘Sun Herald Extra Submission’ in the subject header.
Maximum two submissions per poet, and please, remember the size constraints when choosing work
Length: 20 lines is about the max.
REDROOM COMPANY website www.redroomcompany.org

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Mascara Literary Review (Mascara Poetry has expanded! )
Mascara Literary Review is now accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction and essays.
Mascara Literary Review is an online literary journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian (as well as Australian and Indigenous) writers.

In our current issue (Issue 7), Judith Beveridge is the featured poet. Anthony Lawrence will be the featured poet in Issue 8.

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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Cordite Poetry Review ‘Epic’ 31st issue published December 2009.
Submissions now open for Cordite Poetry Review.
Message from David Prater (Ed) – we are not accepting submissions of haiku or senryu .
Details available at www.cordite.org.au

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Jazz and Poetry section of annotated discography on jazz and literature
- Submissions invited
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 (Peter Newton) 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, on-line courses and e-anthologies for poets
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Islet on-line magazine – Summer issue due date for submissions extended to Tues. November 30. Theme: ‘Islands’

Islet and Island would like to announce a change to our publication schedule. We will now be publishing our islands-themed issues in autumn (late March/early April) and will be launching these themed issues through the Tasmanian Writers' Centre, during the 2011 Ten Days on the Island festival.

We are still calling for submissions, and would be very pleased if you would consider forwarding this information to potential contributors, via your member emails and/or community/professional/personal networks.

The new closing date is TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30 -- check the Islet submissions page for more details.
Publication opportunity for emerging writers and visual artists
Islet (www.islet.com.au) is pleased to announce the theme for its summer issue, and is now calling for submissions addressing the theme of ISLANDS.
We invite you to consider the theme imaginatively, broadly, and figuratively.

Submissions close: Tuesday November, 30
Email to : Submissions should be emailed to the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au with ‘summer issue submission’ in the subject line.
All of Islet’s standard submission guidelines still apply, including length
Poetry: poetry must be under 25 lines, reviews under 400 words, and fiction under 600 words.
Pay rates: See the Islet submissions page http://www.islet.com.au/submissions for pay rates

Please note that non-themed submissions will continue to be received for future issues.
Islet is funded by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council, and supported by the University of Tasmania.

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POETICA – ABC Radio National. Saturdays and Thursdays :
Australia-wide Poetry program - Saturdays at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursdays at 3.05 pm
October
2nd Taha Muhammed Ali – a feature on this Palestinian poet and short story writer.
9th A Pantomime of Words – the poetry collages of Nobel prize winner, Herta Müller.
16th Neruda’s Houses – a feature on Neruda’s eccentric homes and the poetry he wrote there.
23rd Senghor – the poetry of Senegalese writer and past-president, Leopold Sedar Senghor.
30th The Journey – selected works of by Irish poet, Eavan Boland.

POETICA is presented by BRENT CLOUGH and MIKE LADD - For further details please contact the producers of Poetica: Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271
Or visit the Poetica website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/

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The Greenhouse – issue # 3. Members’ submissions due Nov.15 Members email your poems directly to Peter Newton jpnewton@tpg.com.au
Email poems to: Peter J. F. Newton jpnewton@tpg.com.au

A Poets Union e-anthology of Environmental Poems edited by Peter J.F.Newton
Submissions invited and due 15th November for issue #3.

The Poets Union invites members to contribute poems to The Greenhouse, a collection of poems about the environment, to be published as an e-anthology over three tranches in 2010 on the Poets Union website. This is one of the most important issues we have ever faced.

The Greenhouse (first mounting), edited by Martin Langford NOW PUBLISHED - featuring the work of over 50 Poets Union members.

We invite Members to place your thoughts on this and subsequent issues on the Poets Union website.
Submission of entries for The Greenhouse #2 (the second mounting), co-edited by Martin Langford and Peter J.F. Newton, has closed and editing is under way.
Submission of entries for The Greenhouse #3 (the third mounting), edited by Peter J.F. Newton, is required by 15 November 2010.
Entry: Each member may submit a maximum of one poem per deadline (ie three poems over the whole year).
Editor: poet and Poets Union committee member Peter J.F. Newton will edit the submissions and direct queries to individual authors.
Biographical note: Members should also submit a 25 word biographical note the first time they submit work to the anthology.
Members Submit 1 poem: as a simple Word (.doc) attachment
Email poems to: Peter J. F. Newton jpnewton@tpg.com.au
Subject: submission 'THE GREENHOUSE' + YOUR NAME
Cost: Free to members of the Poets Union

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FROM THIS BROKEN HILL 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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Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm
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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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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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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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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Knopf’s National Poetry Month http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/
If you register with Knopf’s National Poetry Month, they will email you a poem every day in April...Every year in celebration of National Poetry Month, Knopf Poetry offers a free poem—along with bonus features like beautiful broadsides, audio clips, and signed books—each day during the month of April through our Poem-a-Day emails.
Enter your email address to sign up http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/

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OTHER NEWS FOR POETS
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4 finalists announced in the Cricket Poetry Prize
The 4 poems to go through to be re-read at the Cricket Art Prize opening on Thursday 7th Oct are:

1. “The Ton” by Peter Harvey – QLD (to be read by Sean Barker)
2. “The Last Over” by Maureen Sudlow – New Zealand (to be read by Nicole Campbell)
3.”Gentleman Jim” by Matt Young – QLD (to be read by Duncan Fellows)
4. “Evolution” by Nerelie Teese – VIC (to be read by Jessica Keath)

A very enjoyable night was had by all at the Australian Youth Hotel where upon we saw and heard the top 20 poems being read by 4 accomplished actors:
• Sean Barker
• Nicole Campbell
• Duncan Fellows
• Jessica Keath

And being ‘umpired’ by 2 proficient judges:
• Sally Loane
• Peter Fenton

Sally and Peter had a very challenging time when reading and re-reading all poems; having to make some very hard decisions in the end to get the field down to 20; then select the last 4 for the ‘finals’ at the Cricket Art Prize Opening on Thursday 7th October.
But, a big thank you goes out to all the poets, writers and authors who submitted entries, as quite obviously, without their support and participation we would not have the international poetry competition that we have now. Literally, we had entries from the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Bahrain and Australia.

Twenty shortlisted poets for the Cricket Poetry Prize:
In no particular order, the 20 finalists were:

1. Australian Job by Lillian Allen – SA
2. A Sonnet to Cricket by Don Adams - New Zealand
3. Backyard Internationals by Glen Butcher – SA
4. Clancy of the Overthrow by David Campbell – VIC
5. Batting Order by Natasha Dennerstein – New Zealand
6. The First Delivery by Nigel Ford – SA
7. The Ton by Peter Harvey – QLD
8. Cricket's Last Stand by Brian Sam Hallewell – QLD
9. Backyard Century by Ian Keast - NSW
10. Stumps Balls and Willow (Our View) by Audrey Lawrence – QLD
11. Three Bats by Alfred Marks – NSW
12. Country Cricketers Childhood by Mark Miller – NSW
13. Testing Times by Brian McLoughlin – NSW
14. My Father's Bat by Rhonda Poholke – VIC
15. Gentleman Jim by Matt Young – QLD
16. Me Neighbour's Kid by Ian Swift – NSW
17. The Last Over by Maureen Sudlow – New Zealand
18. Evolution by Nerelie Teese – VIC
19. Setting the Scene by Noel Tennison – VIC
20. Summer Salvation by Leanne Wicks – NSW

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Australian Poetry Ltd seeks a PUBLICATIONS MANAGER
to commence January 2011
– applications close 5 pm Friday 22nd October

Australian Poetry Ltd is a new organisation about to be launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre based in Melbourne and Poets Union based in NSW. It will be the peak industry body for poetry in this country, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Australian Poetry is seeking a Publications Manager to oversee the publications arm of the organisation, including the publication, marketing and distribution of our flagship poetry journal.

The selected candidate will have broad experience in a similar role with a relevant organisation, and have a clear passion and vision for the position. This is a full time paid position and will commence January 2011.

Deadline for applications is 5pm Friday October 22nd.
To find out more information or apply, please email paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au
for a position description and the selection criteria.

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Scanlon Prize for a collection of Indigenous Poetry – Jeanine Leane
2010 Winner of the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry

At the Poets Union Australian Poetry Festival held in The Rex Centre, Kings Cross, Sydney (4-5 September) the judge for this year’s Scanlon Prize, Yvette Holt from Queensland, announced and introduced the winner, Jeanine Leane, for her book of poems Dark Secrets (PressPress, 2010).

In the judge’s words "Leane's journey is interwoven with post-colonial stitches of a matriarchal society. Aboriginal women's voices echo throughout this divine collection of contemporary storytelling."
Ms Holt added that the Scanlon Prize “is an award of national significance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander poets to aspire to in recognition of their published poetry, independent of state literary awards.”

Jeanine Leane is a writer and educator who lives in Canberra, ACT.

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Ian Reed Foundation 2010 - Writers-in-residence announced
Ian Reed Foundation 2010 writers-in-residence announced

Following a call-out by the Ian Reed Foundation, nearly 200 writers applied for two writer-in-residence opportunities with ABC Radio National. Congratulations to composer/writer Rosalind Page from regional New South Wales, who will work on her play Wildlife and Michele Lee from Melbourne, with her work See how the Leaf People Run.

These residencies will be based in ABC Radio National’s drama unit in Melbourne and Sydney.

Applications were received from all over Australia from writers who have not previously written for radio including poets, essayists, journalists and songwriters. In addition to creating a work for potential broadcast, the successful recipients will have the chance to observe work on other productions and to collaborate with ABC Radio National’s award-winning sound engineers and drama producers.

Michele Lee's play See how the Leaf People Run is about an orphan Hmong boy, Charlie, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder who almost drowned trying to cross the Mekong river to get from Laos, to Thailand and then to Melbourne.

“I'm really looking forward to learning more about the medium and the process of production,” Michele Lee said when her successful application was announced.

Michele’s Ian Reed Foundation residency comes hot on the heels of last week’s announcement of her appointment as a 2010 Melbourne Theatre Company Emerging Writer.

“The opportunity to work with percussionist Claire Edwards to further develop Wildlife is beyond my wildest dreams - just thrilling news!”, said composer/writer Rosalind Page.

Ian Reed was a notable Australian writer of radio drama. He loved the freedom of the medium and when he died in 1979 he left the bulk of his estate to the ABC to encourage ‘potential and aspiring’ writers of radio drama. The Ian Reed Foundation administers the fund that is used to provide for competitions, workshops, script development and dramaturgy as well as other activities intended to support new writers for radio.

For further information about the Ian Reed Foundation, visit abc.net.au/rn/ianreed

For media enquiries, please contact Nicola Fern, Marketing Manager, ABC Radio National on 03 9626 1758 or fern.nicola@abc.net.au

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Gum Blossom’s Poetry 2010 – Results:
Results Gum Blossoms 2010 Poetry

First Place: daybreak over mt.sondard- by Colleen Keating
Second Place: driftwood - by Orchid Tierney

Very Highly Commended:
Pressed Love - by David Troman
gregorian cats - by Frank Prem
Feather Falls - by Joanne Mills
Argent Bark - by David Troman

Highly Commended:
Walking Libations - by John Ryan
A Common Thread - by Joan Fenney
Tingha - by Joe Massingham
crimson rosella - by Colleen Keating
Illusion - by Dale Harcombe
The Pixel Pixies - by David Troman
Longing - by Colleen Keating

Commended:
Family Matters - by Adele Jones
On Bullock Mountain - by Joe Massingham
In a Flash of Brilliance - by Jacqui Merckenschlager
Overwhelmed - by Marilyn Humbert
Old Life Dreams - by David J. Delaney
listen- by Colleen Keating

Judge's Comments: Ruth Strachan

Always, Gum Blossoms delights me with the variety of poetry styles submitted. Surprisingly this year we have a number of poets receiving multiple places. While this confirms we have acknowledged our best poets, it means we have less room to publish other worthwhile poetry. It is always sad to lay aside good poems.

First place this year goes to daybreak over mt.sondar. The originality in this appeals . Imagery, simile, metaphor and personification help to build the atmosphere, and when read aloud good cadences are heard. The conclusion carries an impact that causes serious consideration.

In second place is driftwood, a prose poem. The echoing of ‘watch’ and the restrained alliteration make this attractive to the ear. It gives the reader something to think through, and we feel the emotion present. There are four Very Highly Commended poems this year! Any one of them could have been a winner in other circumstances. Well done. Congratulations.

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Poet Philip Gross is the winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for his collection of poems ‘I Spy Pinhole Eye’

The Winner is … Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)
Poet Philip Gross has won the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for I Spy Pinhole Eye - a collection of poems published by Cinnamon Press. The announcement was made on Wednesday 30 June at a Gala Dinner at St David’s Hotel in Cardiff, introduced by BBC Wales Political Editor, Betsan Powys. Gross was presented with the £10,000 prize by Minister for Heritage, Alun Ffred Jones.
Philip Gross is the author of twelve poetry collections, including The Water Table which won the T S Eliot Prize 2010, as well as a fiction writer, dramatist and Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. He lives in Cardiff.
I Spy Pinhole Eye is a collaborative work between poet and photographer. Simon Denison uses a pinhole camera to transform that most mundane of objects – the footings of electricity pylons - while Philip Gross’s poems explore the act of seeing and interpretation.

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Congratulations to Nathan Curnow winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for his poem endtime

Nathan Curnow is the winner of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2010 for his poem endtime.

2010 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize winners:
First Prize ($10,000) ‘endtime’ by Nathan Curnow, Victoria
Second Prize ($5,000) ‘Always Sometimes Never’ by Andrew Slattery, New South Wales
Commended ($2,500) ‘One Broken Knife’ by Carmen Leigh Keates, Queensland
Commended ($2,500) ‘Dead Sea Psalms’ by Jill Pattinson, Victoria
Judges' comments: http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Read the 2009 and 2010 winners and see the judges' comments at http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Visit the Griffith University website http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/school-humanities/news-and-events/josephine-ulrick-prizes

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Jordie Albiston winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier’s Award for Literature) for her collection ‘the sonnet according to ‘m’
Jordie Albiston lives in Melbourne, where she was born in 1961. She is a poet whose work frequently reflects historical research. Australian composer Andrée Greenwell has adapted two of her books (Botany Bay Document, 1996 - retitled Dreaming Transportation - and The Hanging of Jean Lee, 1998) for music-theatre: both enjoyed seasons at the Sydney Opera House. Nervous Arcs won the Mary Gilmore Award for a first book of Australian poetry in 1995, and was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize. Her fourth collection, The Fall, was shortlisted for Premier's Prizes in Victoria, NSW and Queensland. Here fifth, Vertigoa cantata was published by John Leonard Press, in 2007. She holds a PhD in literature.
The letter ‘m' is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmother and the poet. Jordie Albiston, with characteristic delicacy and zest, limns these very different women as perspectives to each other.
Recurrence is intrinsic to sonnets. They are patterned internally, and are often paroxysmal: a perfect form and formation for poems which worry the distinction between the fatal and the banal. The sequence tells what happens when you admit the existential into everyday life, in small or large doses. The results can be desolate, or sublime. And comedic as well: Albiston knows how to play between darkness and send-up, when it comes to an arduous and animating tension between body and mind.
The Sonnet According to 'M' is published by John Leonard Press
Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to ‘m'

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Derek Motion - winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets for his work 'forest hill'
07 Apr 2010 : A national prize held in honour of Australian poet Judith Wright has been awarded to Charles Sturt University (CSU) postgraduate student, Mr Derek Motion. The 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, valued at $3 000, has been won by the poet and PhD student for his work, ‘forest hill’.
The successful poets featured at a presentation event at the Melbourne Emerging Writers’ Festival on Saturday 29 May, alongside Keri Glastonbury and Gig Ryan (poetry editors of Overland and The Age respectively).
In addition to the prize money, Mr Motion’s poem will be published in the next issue of Overland, a quarterly e-bulletin about events, politics and literature. He was presented the poetry award at the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival in the Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday 29 May.

Commenting on the winning entries including Mr Motion’s work, judge Dr Keri Glastonbury found, “…this loose-knit community is where a lot of the energy and action in Australian poetry is, and I look forward to seeing these poets release first books”.
Mr David Gilbey, Senior Lecturer in English at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga said, “I'm delighted at Derek's continuing success in the lists of Australian letters. Derek's poetry is concentrated, allusive, multi-faceted, drawing on literary traditions and contemporary cultural and technological practices. It is also finely human and wittily self-facing - a pleasure to read.
“Like Judith Wright's poetry, Derek combines metaphysical, personal and social concerns. He richly deserves this award and it's a mark of the modernity and integrity of the judging that his poetry has been recognised.”

Mr Motion named his poem ‘forest hill' after the area on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga where he spent some of his early years and where went to primary school.
“In particular I think I was concerned with locating imagery surrounding the time when you start to become who you are; a kind of site of individuation and thinking about what this means for the adult me,” Mr Motion said.

It is not the first time the CSU postgraduate student has had his work honoured at the national level.
In October 2009, Mr Motion received an Australia Council 2010 Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Initiative Grant, valued at $15 000. Read more here.

Mr Motion is doing his PhD through the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga. His research focuses on his own poetry in the context of Australian poets, Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) and Michael Dransfield (1948-1973).
Living in Wagga Wagga with his young family, Mr Motion is also Director of the Booranga Writers’ Centre at CSU.

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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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Emma Jones WINNER Best First Collection, FORWARD PRIZE for her collection ‘The Striped World’
Congratulations to Australian poet, 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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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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Christine Paice WINNER of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2009
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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VOICEWORKS MAGAZINE
TURNED 21 - The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine.
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 Words We Found available through all good bookshops and online at www.expressmedia.org.au http://www.expressmedia.org.au/ 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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Best wishes,
Cathy Bray
for Brook Emery and the Poets Union committee,
Poets Union Inc,
PO Box 755,
POTTS POINT NSW 1335

Tel. (02) 9357 6602 (Tuesdays & Wednesdays)
Email: info@poetsunion.com
Please visit the Poets Union website: www.poetsunion.com and our new blog: www.poetsunioninc.blogspot.com

7th Australian Poetry Festival photos - thanks to Adrian Wiggins

2010-09-17T01:23:00.001-07:00

Photos: Adrian Wiggins

Find more photos like this on Sydney Poetry

Poets Union e-news for poets from August 9

2010-08-08T03:53:00.000-07:00

Dear Poets Union Members and Friends,

Bookings open now and a booking form is attached for...
INVENTING THE TRADITION –the 7th AUSTRALIAN POETRY FESTIVAL
3, 4, 5 September: The Rex Centre, Kings Cross, Sydney

Inventing the Tradition is designed to be challenging and, above all, to be entertaining and stimulating. It is a festival not a conference but it has the serious aim of investigating the relationship between the mainstream and the margins, between tradition and the avant-garde. Poets will be reading from their own work but they will be contextualising their readings by reference to poets whom they admire and by briefly mentioning the theories, traditions (or anti-traditions) from which they write. Readings will mix ‘n match poets from different aesthetic theories and practices to expose the audience to different ways of thinking about poetry. It is hoped you will hear poets and ideas that you may not have met before in Sydney.

Visit the IMPROVED WEBSITE NOW!
The program outline, ticket prices and booking forms for the Festival are now up on our website. www.poetsunion.com
BOOK NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE!
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Australian Poetry seeks a National Director
Australian Poetry is a new organization about to be launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre based in Melbourne and the Poets Union based in NSW. It will be the peak industry body for poetry in this country with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Australian Poetry is seeking a National Director to oversee every aspect of the organization, including managing staff, stakeholders, membership, a national program of events, publications, festival involvement, an education program, an array of special projects, funding, revenue raising and financial matters. The Director should have a clear vision of where how the organization should evolve over the next three years (and beyond) and work towards executing a plan to achieve this vision. The selected candidate must be based in Melbourne for the time of employment.

Deadline for applications is Friday September 3rd.
To find out more information or apply, please email admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au for a position description and the selection criteria.

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POETRY, EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND READINGS
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In Canberra Poetry at The Gods – Aug 10 with Andrew Landsdown (WA) and Michelle Cahil (Sydney)

Date: Tuesday August 10
Guest Poets: Andrew Lansdown from WA and Michelle Cahill from Sydney (more details below).

Andrew Landsdown is one of Australia's best 'Imagist' poets and has written extensively in the haiku and tanka fields as well as in free verse and traditional metres. Andrew is a Western Australian poet, essayist and novelist. He has published sixteen books and six chapbooks. His most recent poetry collections are: Fontanelle, Little Matters (a gathering of 89 haiku and senryu), Consolations (80 tanka) and Birds in Mind: Australian Nature Poems.

Michelle Cahill is another of the new group of young(ish) Australian women poets who have been making a big impact lately. She's also the editor of the on-line poetry magazine, Mascara.
Michelle Cahill’s books include The Accidental Cage and Poetry Without Borders (ed.) Her work appears in many Australian and international journals. ‘Vishvarupa’, her sequence on Hindu gods, was highly commended in the 2009 Blake Poetry Prize.

More info:
Geoff Page - 8/40 Leahy Close, Narrabundah ACT 2604 Australia
+61 2 6239 4027 0400 800 340

What’s on next at The Gods
Tues Sep 14 Alan Wearne and Kate Llewellyn
Tues Oct 18 Elizabeth Lawson, Leon Trainor and Jeremy Nelson

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In Canberra 13 August – Science Made Marvellous
1. Science in Poetry
7:30–9:30pm Friday 13 August

Hear some of the best ACT region poets in this cabaret-style event, a great opportunity to meet and mingle with other poetry lovers. Science Made Marvellous, a national poetry anthology, will be launched and read from on the night. Supported by National Science Week, the Poets Union and Belconnen Arts Centre Inc.

Cost: $15, $10 ACT Writers Centre and BAC members.
Venue: Belconnen Arts Centre, Emu Bank Crescent, Belconnen
Booking: admin@actwriters.org.au or 6262 9191

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In Daylesford 14th August – Poetry Wonders (Words in Winter festival) with with Idan Ben-Barak and Ray Liversidge

“Poetry Wonders” is a special panel discussion celebrating Science Week, presented by the Australian Poetry Centre and Words in Winter.
Idan Ben-Barak is the author of the award-winning Small Wonders: How Microbes Rule Our World - a fascinating expose of life at the microscopic level. Ray Liversidge's most recent book The Barrier Range is a verse novel about the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860. These two worlds of research come together to show how the little things really do matter.

Event: “Poetry Wonders” will be presented during the Words in Winter festival
Time: at 4pm
Date: on Saturday 14th August, 2010.
Venue: the “Omnibus” - a double-decker bus, generously donated by the Daylesford Cider Company, which features a beautiful and stimulating selection of Australian poetry for the public to browse and read.
Address: The bus will be parked on the day outside the Daylesford Town Hall, 76 Vincent Street.
Cost: Entry to the event is by gold coin donation.

The Omnibus is supported by Arts Victoria, through its Touring Projects program, and this event is supported by National Science Week.

For more information – http://www.daylesfordonline.com/wordsinwinter/HOME.html
Library Co-ordinator – Andy Jackson
Website – www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au
Email – admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au
Phone – 03 9094 7826

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Perth Poetry Club: guest poet 14 August – Andy Jackson (fresh from Goolwa, completely awesome)
2-4 pm at the Moon Café
Guest poet this Sat. 14 August : Andy Jackson (Melbourne)
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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/

Date: 14 Aug: Andy Jackson (Melbourne) (Fresh from Goolwa Festival, completely awesome)
Venue: The Moon Café,
Address: 323 William Street, Northbridge.
More info (yes, more!) : http://www.perthpoetryclub.com
Enquiries email: perthpoetryclub@gmail.com
Phone: Janet 0406 624 578

COMING UP AT PERTH POETRY CLUB:
21 Aug: Allan Boyd (antipoet: the radical hack)
28 Aug: WA [Spring] Poetry Festival MEGA-GIG with four festival guests

Have you seen our Perth Poetry Links ? Readings, groups, poets, journals, publishers... WA poetry. Perth Poetry club lineups until 12 June are now online at
http://perthpoetryslam.com/perthpoetryclub/node/71

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In Glebe – launch of verse novel ‘Ani Lin: the journey of a Chinese Buddhist nun’ by Pip Griffin

Event: the launch of Pip Griffin’s verse novel Ani Lin: the journey of a Chinese Buddhist nun
Launch: to be launched by Sydney poet, Les Wicks

In 1892, 18 year old Lin enters a mountain nunnery, where she begins a journey that will take her on a difficult spiritual and physical path. Her dream is to work for equality for women in the Buddhist world. Five years later, taking Buddhist scrolls and her beloved bamboo flute and accompanied by the Tibetan monk Lobsang, she sets out to travel the remote and mountainous Horse Tea Road that leads to Tibet…

PIP GRIFFIN invites you to the launch
Date: Sunday 15 August
Time: 3:30pm for 4:00pm
Venue: Upstairs at Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Rd
Glebe NSW 2037

RSVP to gleebooks:

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In Sydney: Science Made Marvellous – 3 poetry anthologies
launch at the State Library 17th August, in National Science Week

Event: Launch of Science Made Marvellous – A celebration of science through poetry.
The evening will launch Science Made Marvellous, three collections of poems curiously investigating the facts, themes and language of science, from both scientists and writers selected from with hundreds of poems submitted from all corners and all backgrounds.

Panel: Join a panel of scientists, writers and poets as they discuss the connections, overlaps and divergences between poetry and science. This year a national poetry project brings together a set of science poems to celebrate National Science Week.

Discussion: there will be a panel discussion on the relationship between poetry and science with guests including Chris Winder, Professor of Toxicology, University of NSW; Paul Giles, Challis Professor of English at University of Sydney; poets Stephen Edgar, Emma Ballou and Tricia Dearborn.

Readings: There will be readings from the 3 Science Made Marvellous anthologies –
Law and Impulse, Holding Patterns and Earthly Matters

Date: Tuesday 17 August 2010
Time: 6.00 to 7.30pm
Place: The Dixson Room – State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney.
No Cost: This is free event but please RSVP by making a booking with the State Library...
RSVP: bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au or phone the Bookings Officer on (02) 92731770.
(Note – please DO NOT RSVP to the POETS UNION)

And, for those who book early, a free copy of one of the anthologies. This is free event.
This event is part of a national project co-ordinated by the Poets Union and sponsored by National Science Week.

RSVP Bookings: Please email: bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au
or phone the State Library Bookings Officer on (02) 92731770.
(Note – please DO NOT RSVP to the POETS UNION)

Snow Job on Keats?
Science Made Marvellous, a project funded by National Science Week will produce three booklets of Science poems and an audio program to be launched in National Science Week 2010. You might say this is a an experiment using 26 variables, and you can judge how well it works at the launching of the collections and a celebration of science in poetry in events organized by Writers Centres and poetry organizations in every Australian State and Territory. Chapbooks will be available free at the launch events, and also be available as a PDF download. A selection of poems and commentary broadcast as audio and downloadable from writing centres, The Poets Union and the Australian Poetry Centre and broadcast on local radio.

Science Made Marvellous launches in Sydney on Tuesday 17th August in The Dixson Room of State Library, from 6.00 to 7.30pm. There will be readings and a panel discussion on the relationship between poetry and science with guests including Chris Winder, Professor of Toxicology, University of NSW; Paul Giles Challis Professor of English at University of Sydney, poets Stephen Edgar, Emma Ballou and Tricia Dearborn, and for those who book early, a free chapbook.

Bookings to the State Library of NSW - email bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au or the Bookings Officer on 92731770.
For More Details Contact: Carol Jenkins on 0418 216 480 or (02) 99692187 or by email at: cjenkins@riverroadpress.net

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In Melbourne – The Science of Poetry for National Science Week
Welcome to the age of TV space travel. Cameras and robots are our eyes and hands in alien worlds. How can film and poetry, which themselves make worlds, reflect the new worlds that science is bringing us? New poetry, rocket shards, NASA experiments, sci-fi film talk, images of newly-discovered nebulae.

Event: The Science of Poetry including a short talk from Anne Brumfitt, architect of the education program at the European Space Agency.
Date: 18 August 2010
Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: funky Melbourne Bar - The Croft Institute upstairs.
Address: Upstairs, 21 Croft Ally,
Melbourne.
Cost: $10.00 (tickets available at the door or via try booking.

This event is being run by the Australian Poetry Centre, with assistance from National Science Week.

Website – www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au
Email – admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au
Phone – 03 9094 7826

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In Sydney: You Deserve Dessert with Margaret Owen Ruckert
Event: Margaret Owen Ruckert will talk on The Poetry of Food and read from her book You Deserve Dessert
Date: Friday 20th August
Time: 10.30 -11.30 am
Venue: Randwick (Bowen) Library,
Address: 669 - 673 Anzac Parade,
Maroubra (corner of Gale Road and Anzac Parade).
RSVP - Enquiries and bookings – (02) 9314 4888

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Brett Whiteley Studio – Poets Union monthly reading
– guest poet for 22nd August is Winifred Weir
Sunday 22 August 2010
The Poets Union monthly poetry reading is held on the fourth Sunday of the month, Sunday 22 August 2010

Date: Sunday 22nd August
Guest poet : guest poet for Sunday 22nd August 2010 will be Winifred Weir
Venue: Brett Whiteley Studio in Sydney.
Address: 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills (off Devonshire Street, via Esther Street and Esther Lane)
Time: 2.00 - 3.30 pm
Free entry. Open Mic included.

Winifred Weir has been published in a collection of four poets, Contours (Round Table Press, 1991), and her poetic narrative, or verse novella, Isabella, which was awarded the Women Writers’ Poetry Book Award in 2003, was published by Five Islands Press in 2001.
Weir’s poems have appeared in Southerly, Overland, Meanjin, Island, Scarp, Westerly, famous Reporter, Poetry Australia, Hobo and the Newcastle Herald as well as numerous anthologies over many years. In 1996 she won the Women Writers’ Poetry Prize. She has worked as a teacher and currently lives in Sydney’s north.

The Poets Union thanks the Brett Whiteley Studio staff and the Art Gallery of NSW for their support and we thank Rosnay wines for their wonderful wine and sponsorship.
Convenor: Angela Stretch for Poets Union Inc. Enquiries for 2010 : 0438 898 578

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In Sydney 30th August – Sydney Poetry bookclub meets to discuss Judith Beveridge’s poetry collection ‘Storm and Honey’

Date: Monday 30thAugust
Book for discussion on 30th August: Storm and Honey by Judith Beveridge
Venue: Madam Fling Flong’s (upstairs)
Address: Level 1, 169 King Street, Newtown.
Time: 7.00 – 9.00 pm

About Sydney Poetry bookclub – the second sydneypoetry.com bookclub will convene at 7 pm on Monday 30th August upstairs at Madam Fling Flong’s (aka Soni’s –which is the downstairs part of 169 King Street, Newtown) to discuss Judith Beveridge’s Storm and Honey.

What you need to do between now and then: read the book (Storm and Honey), develop an opinion.

About the venue (Madam Fling Flong) – sometimes there are private functions upstairs, so if we are not there, we’ll be perched in the front bar downstairs (aka Soni’s).

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In Sydney – 3rd -5th September, the 7th Australian Poetry Festival : ‘Inventing the Tradition’

Bookings are now open for ‘Inventing the Tradition’ the seventh Australian Poetry Festival to be presented by the Poets Union.

Inventing the Tradition is designed to be challenging and, above all, to be entertaining and stimulating. It is a festival not a conference but it has the serious aim of investigating the relationship between the mainstream and the margins, between tradition and the avant-garde. Poets will be reading from their own work but they will be contextualising their readings by reference to poets whom they admire and by briefly mentioning the theories, traditions (or anti-traditions) from which they write. Readings will mix ‘n match poets from different aesthetic theories and practices to expose the audience to different ways of thinking about poetry. It is hoped you will hear poets and ideas that you may not have met before in Sydney.

We are pleased that the Judith Wright Memorial Lecture will be delivered this year by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Chris is one of Australia’s most respected poets and academics. He is also Chair of the Australian Poetry Centre and Interim Co-Chair of Australian Poetry.

Papers from the festival will be published in a special edition of Five Bells towards the end of the year. They will make a significant contribution to discussions about the nature and scope of contemporary poetry in Australia and spread the ideas beyond the festival’s specific time and place.

Event: Inventing the Tradition - the seventh Australian Poetry Festival
Dates: Friday 3rd September – Sunday 5th September
Time: between 10am — 5:30pm, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September.
Location: Central Sydney festival events take place in Kings Cross over 3, 4 and 5 September.

The cocktail party: will be held at The Sugar Mill on Friday 3 September
Date: Friday 3rd September
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm, Friday 3 September.
Venue: in the cocktail bar of the Sugarmill Hotel,
Address: 33-37 Darlinghurst Road,
Kings Cross

Main festival events: will take place in the Rex Centre at Kings Cross.
Address: 58A Macleay Street
Kings Cross (entrance across the square from the El Alamein fountain and next to the post office, near Baroda Street),

BOOK NOW TO SECURE A PLACE
Ticket Prices:
– Full Festival Pass $80/$70
– Weekend Pass $60/$50
– Day pass $40/$30)

Accommodation: Festival guests are staying at the De Vere Hotel,
Address: 44 - 46 Macleay Street, Potts Point.
Accommodation, restaurants, cafes and pub are plentiful.

DOWNLOAD A BOOKING FORM and return with payment by 18 August
A copy of the program and a booking form is available on the Poets Union website www.poetsunion.com

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In Melbourne on Sept. 4 – Overland 200 launch party
Date: Saturday, September 4
Time: at 7:00pm
Location: Feddish, Federation Square,
Melbourne

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In Pearl Beach – Central Coast Poets anthology : launch and readings from ‘Off the Path’

Event: Jean Kent will launch the Central Coast Poets Inc. latest anthology, "Off the Path" (Picaro Press)
Date: Saturday, 11th September, 2010,
Time: at 1.30pm,
Venue: Pearl Beach Memorial Hall,
Address: Diamond Road, Pearl Beach, NSW 2256.

Jean Kent will launch the Central Coast Poets Inc. latest anthology, "Off the Path" (Picaro Press) .
This biennial anthology highlights selected poems from the Henry Kendall Poetry Award, 2010 & members' work.

Readings will be followed by light refreshments.
RSVP : Enquiries or RSVP to Gillian Telford, gilltel@optusnet.com.au

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4 poetry events at The Sydney Fringe festival - 12th to 22nd Sept:
- City Nightfall
- Mad Woman’s Breakfast. Eat my Bush!
- PUFF - Poetry Underground Film Festival
- Candy Royalle: Love Spectacular
Visit www.thesydneyfringe.com.au/

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Sun. 12 & Mon. 13 September – Poetry Underground Film Festival (PUFF) at The Sydney Fringe

Event: Poetry Underground Film Festival –PUFF, at The Sydney Fringe
Venue: Madam Fling Flong
Address: Upstairs, 169 King Street,
Newtown
Directions: (Just south of the Missenden Road intersection with King Street)
Shows: 2 performances 12/9 8pm, 13/9 6.30pm
Dates: Sunday 12th September at 8.00 pm, (after Madwoman’s Breakfast)
+ Monday 13th September at 6.30pm (before Madwoman’s Breakfast)

PUFF is a collection of poetry on film, in film, about film, about poetry, about film
about poetry, with poetry on film. PUFF is the collision of two worlds - the literal
and the visual - to form a lisual, viteral, visceral experience, the likes of which you
have probably seen before, but in a totally different way. PUFF is uncensored, incensed,
insensitive, desensitised and nonsensical; may offend some viewers (with any luck),
contain adult themes and strong language…expect the unexpected and enjoy a series of
predictable surprises.

PUFF has been co-ordinated by the Australian Poetry Centre

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Sun. 12 & Mon. 13 September – Mad Woman’s Breakfast at The Sydney Fringe

Event: Mad Woman’s Breakfast. Eat my Bush!
Venue: Madam Fling Flong
Address: Level 1, 169 King Street,
Newtown
Directions: Just south of the Missenden Road intersection with King Street
Shows: 2 performances 12/9 6.30pm, 13/9 8pm
Dates: Sunday 12th September at 6.30 pm (before PUFF)
+ Monday 13th September at 8 pm (after PUFF)
Tickets: $20 and $16 concession
Bookings: www.thesydneyfringe.com.au/

About the show Madwoman’s Breakfast. Eat my Bush!
From Federico Garcia Lorca to Phyllis Diller, from Gloria Steinem to Jerzy Kosinski : it’s a
madwoman’s breakfast! One Australian’s mixmaster of metaphors and emotions about America - opening up a Pandora’s pantry of photos, poetry, quotes and smirks. By Cathy Bray.

About the Madwoman – Cathy Bray has been writing poetry and thinking about America for a very long time. She combines her photos of New York with her own poems and every American literary, film and comic influence she can muster.

Cathy Bray has had her poetry published in a number of anthologies (Phoenix, Prismatics, ILLUMINA 2007) websites and journals (Five Bells). In 2010, her first chapbook of poems ‘The Owl’ was published by Picaro Press

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Tues. 14 & Wed. 22 September : City Nightfall – reflections on Kenneth Slessor at The Sydney Fringe

Event: City Nightfall
Venue: The Seymour Centre, Downstairs
Address: corner of Cleveland Street and City Road, opposite the University of Sydney
Shows: 2 performances
Dates : Tuesday 14th September (14/9)
+ Wednesday 22nd September (22/9)
Time: at 8.45pm (both nights)
Tickets: $28 and $24 concession
Bookings through www.thesydneyfringe.com.au/

About City Nightfall –
TAKE A STEP BACK IN TIME with a series of shapes from the pages of much loved Australian modernist poet, Kenneth Slessor. Proceeding from experience of a past Sydney through visions that hold a momentary exaltation extending from the 1930s. Poetic images that evoke the sensory qualities of experience in flesh and blood, lived with ‘feel’.
“Writing poetry is a pleasure, ...a pleasure out of hell”
Kenneth Slessor 1947
Poems from Darlinghurst Nights, used by kind permission of P Slessor and HarperCollins. Virgil Reilly drawings used by kind permission of T Thompson and ETT Imprint.

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19th & 20th September - poet Candy Royalle: Love Spectacular at The Sydney Fringe

Event: Candy Royalle: Love Spectacular,
Venue: Madam Fling Flong
Address: Upstairs, 169 King Street,
Newtown
Directions: Just south of the Missenden Road intersection with King Street
Shows: 2 performances 12/9 6.30pm, 13/9 8pm
Dates: Sunday 19th September at 6.30 pm
+ Monday 20th September at 8.00 pm
Tickets: $20 and $16 concession
Bookings through www.thesydneyfringe.com.au/

About the show:
Candy Royalle: Love Spectacular is an hour-long journey into the euphoric highs and the dark depths of love from one of Sydney's best loved performance poets. Using song, storytelling and poetry, this one-woman show draws on the personal experiences of Candy and her intimates. At times confronting and sexually-charged, this intense show will take its audience to the brink and back...
Candy Royalle recently performed at the launch of Guerilla Poetry (organised by Jess Cook and Token Imagination in conjunction with the Poets Union and the city of Sydney) and has appeared at many gigs and festivals all over Australia.

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Poetry Pilgrimage to Broken Hill 2-4th October
POETRY PILGRIMAGE TO BROKEN HILL
AN EXTENDED WEEKEND OF HOSPITALITY SIGHTSEEING HISTORY ART POETRY
THE MAYOR OF THE SILVER CITY – BROKEN HILL INVITES
POETRY AT THE PUB in NEWCASTLE - THE CITY OF STEEL
TO
POETRY AT THE PUB in BROKEN HILL
AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Date: 2nd - 4thth October 2010
the main event will be on Sunday 3rd October - from 4pm
Venue: ‘Mulberry Vale’ – about 5k from Broken Hill Central

(free transport will be available from Broken Hill Central)
...beyond the Darling River on the edge of sundown... Broken Hill and the inspirational outback... the vibrant earthy colours and magical light of this landscape have drawn film-makers and artists here to capture its special quality... it packs a powerful emotional punch, this dark red soil... there’s definitely a spiritual element in this country... graphic testimony to the struggles of the mining pioneers... the Hill that changed a Nation...
- from: Broken Hill: the accessible outback, edition 17, 2010
Why a Pilgrimage?
Broken Hill and Newcastle have rich traditions as mining/industrial towns, but they also share poetic heritage with their ’Poetry at the Pub’ groups. Both groups have been going continuously since the early 1980s – this is the first time they will officially ‘face off’
Accommodation: The Tourist Lodge 100 Argent Street Broken Hill – ph: 08 8088 2086
(we have organised a great deal for you ) thetouristlodge@bigpond.com
OR
Choose your own from many options
http://www.visitnsw.com/town/Broken_Hill/Broken_Hill_Visitor_Information_Centre/info.aspx
Need more detail? Bill Tibben 0404 210 438 in Sydney OR Ray Cook 08 8088 4272 in Broken Hill

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COMPETITIONS, PRIZES and SUBMISSIONS
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The APC Poetry Underground Film Festival (PUFF) at The Sydney Fringe – entries sought by 20 August

PUFF (Poetry Underground Film Festival) is coming… the APC is seeking films ‘most connected to the art form of poetry’

Seeking: The APC is seeking poetry films on any theme, subject, of any rating, from any city or location around Australia, inspired by any poem, poet or muse, or written by yourself.
Film: It may have text or voice-over…or not. It may be surreal and esoteric…or narrative driven.
Language: It may be in English or another language.
Length of film: No longer than 5 minutes.
Themes and types of film: It may contain adult themes and strong language…or be animated and family friendly.
Only requirement: that it be poetic. As long as it feels poetic in nature to you, we are happy to accept it.
Winners: The top fifteen films deemed ‘most connected to the art form of poetry’, with the best production values, will be selected by a panel of established poets and film makers and officially screened at The Sydney Fringe festival in September.

Please read the terms and conditions on the APC website www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au and attached (on both the PU and APC websites) and
submit your film (no longer than 5 minutes long) by Friday August 20th to:
Australian Poetry Centre
PUFF
PO BOX 21082
Little Lonsdale St
Melbourne, 8011, VIC
www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au

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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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Sentences Annual Literary Competition 2010 – due August 31
The Bridge Foundation is a charity based in Sale and advocates for prisoners, and their families on release.
SENTENCES ANNUAL LITERARY COMPETITION 2010 - entries are invited in the following sections:
SECTION 1 OPEN SHORT STORY Limit 2,500 words
SECTION 2 OPEN POETRY Limit 40 lines

All entries to be previously unpublished work.
PRIZES : lest - $100 2nd - $75 3rd - $50
Entry fees $5 for one entry $12 for three entries
No entry form necessary. Separate cover sheet with name and address please.
Winners notified by mail. Results published on our website www.bridgefoundation.net.au
Entries to : The Bridge Foundation, P O Box 9279, Sale, Victoria 3850
Closing date : August 31st, 2010

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Cricket Poetry Award – value $2,000 entries due 1st September

Calling artists and poets… The organisers invite painters and poets from test playing nations to submit a painting or composition that depicts life in and around the game and sport of cricket.
The Cricket Poetry Award offers AU$2000 to the winning poet with international exposure for the top twenty poems.
Click here for overview –> complete 2009 exhibition including poet Andy Kissane reading his winning poem ‘The Catch’ from 2009 Cricket Poetry Award.
Entry forms and conditions on the Poets Union website www.poetsunion.com under ‘Competitions and Prizes’ Entries close: September 1st. 2010

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Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize – ENTRIES CLOSE MON. 13 Sept
Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize – please visit http://www.islandmag.com/index.html for more details .
$2000 first prize for A single poem or suite of linked poems not longer than 80 lines.

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The Nature Conservancy Australia - NATURE WRITING PRIZE
A Biennial national prize of $5000
NATURE WRITING PRIZE – entries close 30 September
Inaugural winner published in indigo journal
Judges: literary journalist, Sally Blakeley and poet and nature writer, Mark Tredinnick.
Entries Close: 30 September 2010
The prize will be awarded for an essay between 3000 and 5000 words set within an Australia landscape and exploring the author's sense of 'place'.

Founded in 1951, and with more than 1 million members worldwide, The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and water for nature and people. Working in partnership with Australian conservation organizations, Indigenous landholders and government, TNC Australia programs include the biodiversity rich Godwin Link in WA, Central Australian deserts and Northern Australian grasslands.

indigo journal is dedicated to promoting Western Australian writers and their writing.
Find out more by visiting www.indigojournal.org.au

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Inverawe Nature Poetry Competition - entries due Oct 11

Message from Margaret Chestnut:
Hi - we are up and running for the 2010 Inverawe Nature Poetry Competition, now in its fifth year.

Entry forms are on the web www.inverawe.com.au and follow the poetry link.
The entry forms will also be in the June edition of Island Magazine.
First prize $1000, minor award $300, Tasmanian residents $300, emerging poet $200.
Conditions: The competition is for a poem not exceeding 28 lines, on a nature theme.
Entry fee: $6 per poem, maximum three poems per poet.
Details and feedback: Last year’s winning poem and the judges’ report are on the website www.inverawe.com.au
Judge: As last year, Adrienne Eberhard will judge the competition.
Closing date: The closing date for entries is October 11, 2010.

Regards, Margaret Chestnut
Inverawe Native Gardens
Tasmania’s Largest Landscaped Native Garden
www.inverawe.com.au
gardens@inverawe.com.au
ph 03 6267 2020

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Melbourne Poets Union – International Poetry Competition 2010 due by Friday 29 October
MELBOURNE POETS UNION - Established 1977

Competition: INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION 2010
Prizes: $1,000 First Prize $300 Second Prize $200 third prize
+ $100 Martin Downey Urban Realist Award
+ Plus Book Vouchers for Highly Commended & Books for Commended
Judge: Competition Judge – Ron Pretty
Poems: not more than 50 lines
Due: Friday 29th October (see conditions below)
Entry form: Download Entry Forms from MPU’s Website http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mpuinc
More Information: Contact for MPU Inc is Leon Shann
Tel. 03 9386 6259 or email shann3056@optusnet.com.au
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
 poems should be in English, unpublished, not accepted or submitted for publication
 elsewhere and must be your original work
 poems should not be entered in any other competition, or have previously been a winner
 in any other competition
 may be on any theme, maximum 50 lines and must be typed
 shall not bear the poet’s name
 entries should be received by Friday 29th October 2010, or postmarked that date
 entries must be accompanied by cheque/money order payable to Melbourne Poets Union
 and addressed to Melbourne Poets Union, PO Box 266, Flinders Lane, Vic 8009
 $7 per poem or $13 for 2 poems or $18 for 3 poems (no cash please)
NOTE
 entry fees are not refundable
 there is no limit to the number of entries an individual may submit
 failure to meet any of these conditions shall render the poems ineligible
 please enclose a self stamped address envelope (SSAE) for results
 the judge’s decision is final - no correspondence shall be entered into.
 MPU reserves the right to publish the winning poem/s on their website.

Entry Forms – please download from MPU’s Website: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mpuinc
Sponsors: Black Inc Books, Black Pepper Publishing, The Paperback Bookshop

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The Greenhouse – Poets Union e-anthology
Submissions invited and due 15th November for next issue.

A Poets Union e-anthology of Environmental Poems edited by Martin Langford

The Poets Union invites members to contribute poems to The Greenhouse, a collection of poems about the environment published as an e-anthology on the Poets Union website. This is one of the most important issues we have ever faced.

The Greenhouse (first mounting) NOW PUBLISHED - featuring the work of over 50 Poets Union members. The Greenhouse will be progressively mounted over three deadlines in 2010. There are now two deadlines remaining:
15 July 2010
15 November 2010.
We invite you to place your thoughts on this issue on the Union website.

Entry: Each member may submit a maximum of one poem per deadline (ie three poems over the whole year).
Editor: poet and Poets Union committee member Martin Langford will edit the submissions.
Biographical note: Members should also submit a 25 word biographical note the first time they submit work to the anthology.
Submit 1 poem: as a simple Word (.doc) attachment
Email poems to: Martin Langford martinlangford@bigpond.com
Subject: submission 'THE GREENHOUSE' + YOUR NAME
Cost: Free to members of the Poets Union

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Mascara Literary Review (Mascara Poetry has expanded! )
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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Islet on-line magazine
call for submissions to a new on-line magazine www.islet.com.au from Island...
Are you an emerging writer or visual artist?
Island magazine is very pleased to call for submissions to islet, its new online publishing space.
Islet publishes a free, quarterly collection of small works by emerging writers and visual artists.
For pay rates, maximum word lengths, and detailed submission guidelines, please visit the website: www.islet.com.au
Check out the current issue www.islet.com.au and pop in to our Conversation page while you’re there!

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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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Jazz and Poetry section of annotated discography on jazz and literature
- Submissions invited
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 (Peter Newton) 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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Jacket Magazine – Number 40
now available http://jacketmagazine.com/40/index.shtml
And for news about Jacket's exciting future, see the homepage at http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml
Editors: John Tranter, Pam Brown

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POETICA – ABC Radio National. Saturdays and Thursdays :
Australia-wide Poetry program - Saturdays at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursdays at 3.05 pm

August
7th Burung Merek – a feature on the late, great Indonesian poet, W.S. Rendra.
14th Suburbia – an anthology about the beauty and terror of Australian suburban life.
21st Counting the Rafts – the work of Australian poet and playwright, Jack Hibberd.

28th Anne Carson – selected poems by Canadian poet and essayist, Anne Carson.

September
NATIONAL POETRY WEEK BECOMES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH ON POETICA.
4th National Poetry Week 2010 – a round-the-nation sampling of recent Australian poetry.
11th Bruce Dawe – selected poems by this well-loved Australian poet.
18th War is not the Season for Figs – the poetry of Lidija Cvetkovic.
25th Jack – excerpts from Judy Johnson’s verse novel set in the Torres Strait.

October
2nd Taha Muhammed Ali – a feature on this Palestinian poet and short story writer.
9th A Pantomime of Words – the poetry collages of Nobel prize winner, Herta Müller.
16th Neruda’s Houses – a feature on Neruda’s eccentric homes and the poetry he wrote there.
23rd Senghor – the poetry of Senegalese writer and past-president, Leopold Sedar Senghor.
30th The Journey – selected works of by Irish poet, Eavan Boland.

POETICA is presented by BRENT CLOUGH and MIKE LADD - For further details please contact the producers of Poetica: Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271
Or visit the Poetica website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/

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APC Online Course – ‘The Business of Poetry’ August 2-Oct 11
The Business of Poetry - Unleash the power of language to create many streams of revenue!
CALLING ALL POETS WHO WANT TO EARN A LIVING FROM THEIR POETRY
On 28 April at 5:30pm, Entrepreneur in Residence at RMIT, Marcus Powe, and the Acting Director of the Australian Poetry Centre, Paul Kooperman, gave a free lecture at RMIT about earning a living as a poet and artist. The workshop was well-attended and a great success. There is obviously strong interest in establishing a career, making a living and sustaining a livelihood from writing poetry or creating art of any kind.

Course: ‘The Business of Poetry’ - The Australian Poetry Centre (APC) on-line course. As a follow up, or in case you missed this lecture, the Australian Poetry Centre is running an online workshop offering poets the chance to develop a strategy for earning an income from writing poetry without compromising their style or craft.
Date of course: over 10 weeks (August 2-Oct 11)
Due date: applications by 9 July

Co-ordinator: The course will be run by Marcus Powe www.marcuspowe.com
On-line course Date(s): starting Monday August 2nd, and run for ten weeks, ending Monday October 11th.
Course requirement/proposal: To be accepted into the course, prospective participants are asked to submit a half page proposal outlining why they want to earn a living and/or income from their poetry, ideas they personally have for doing so and their commitment in pursuing this goal.
Course description: Each week, participants will be asked to set goals and follow specific steps in order to achieve their goals. Together, with Marcus, participants will identify problems, solutions and strategies in order to plan for success and begin sustaining a career as a poet. You can participate from any location in the world, as long as you have an email address.

Conditions: Membership of the Poets Union or the Australian Poetry Centre, is required. If accepted into the course, you will need to be a member of the Australian Poetry Centre (APC) or a member of the Poets Union. Please check the APC website www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au or the Poets Union website www.poetsunion.com for forms and details of how to join.

Course fee: The course costs $220 (that’s $22 a week for the sake of your career) and places are limited. You do not need to pay until you have been accepted into the course. Once accepted, full payment is to be made before the course begins.
Due date for applications: The deadline for these proposals is Friday July 9th.
Send applications/proposals by email: To submit your proposal, expressing your interest to enrol in the course, please email it to
admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au
More support for artists in business can be found at www.drbusiness.tv

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The Greenhouse – issue 3 members’ submissions due Nov.15
Email directly to martinlangford@bigpond.com
Visit the Poets Union website and click to the right of the Home Page on The Greenhouse to read poems from over 50 Poets Union members.
Congratulations to the poets and to Martin Langford the editor, for all his hard work.
And thanks to Marion Benjamin our webmeister for posting them so beautifully.
Forward the link to your friends www.poetsunion.com

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FROM THIS BROKEN HILL 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
–new online publishing www.islet.com.au
Are you an emerging writer or visual artist?
Island magazine is very pleased to call for submissions to lslet, its new online publishing space.
Islet publishes a free, quarterly collection of small works by emerging writers and visual artists.

For pay rates, maximum word lengths, and detailed submission guidelines, please visit the website: www.islet.com.au .
Check out the current issue and pop in to our Conversation page while you’re there!

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Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm
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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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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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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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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Poetry Lab by email with poet Julie Chevalier 29 April-9 Sept.

POETRY LAB BY EMAIL With Julie Chevalier (10CHEV4)
Course dates: Thurs. 29 April – Thurs. 9 September
Full price: $450
Venue: on-line course
Enquiries: NSW Writers’ Centre Phone (02) 9555 9757
Email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au

Want to write poetry but can’t make it to a course or workshop? Need individual feedback on your work without leaving the house? Join widely published poet and teacher Julie Chevalier for an online, interactive poetry writing course.
This course is suitable for someone who is interested in writing contemporary poetry and has reliable email. It fills the gap between working through exercises in a book (although books are recommended) and working with a mentor. It enables people who are unable to access courses and workshops because of isolation, time or distance to receive personal feedback to improve their poems. Students are offered the opportunity to contact each other. HSC students are welcome.

Enquiries: NSW Writers’ Centre
Phone (02) 9555 9757 Fax (02) 9818 1327
Email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au
Website: www.nswwriterscentre.org.au

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Knopf’s National Poetry Month http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/
If you register with Knopf’s National Poetry Month, they will email you a poem every day in April...Every year in celebration of National Poetry Month, Knopf Poetry offers a free poem—along with bonus features like beautiful broadsides, audio clips, and signed books—each day during the month of April through our Poem-a-Day emails.
Enter your email address to sign up http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/

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OTHER NEWS FOR POETS
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Poet Philip Gross is the winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for his collection of poems ‘I Spy Pinhole Eye’

The Winner is … Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)
Poet Philip Gross has won the Wales Book of the Year 2010 for I Spy Pinhole Eye - a collection of poems published by Cinnamon Press. The announcement was made on Wednesday 30 June at a Gala Dinner at St David’s Hotel in Cardiff, introduced by BBC Wales Political Editor, Betsan Powys. Gross was presented with the £10,000 prize by Minister for Heritage, Alun Ffred Jones.

Philip Gross is the author of twelve poetry collections, including The Water Table which won the T S Eliot Prize 2010, as well as a fiction writer, dramatist and Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. He lives in Cardiff.
I Spy Pinhole Eye is a collaborative work between poet and photographer. Simon Denison uses a pinhole camera to transform that most mundane of objects – the footings of electricity pylons - while Philip Gross’s poems explore the act of seeing and interpretation.

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Congratulations to Nathan Curnow winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for his poem endtime

Nathan Curnow is the winner of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2010 for his poem endtime.

2010 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize winners:
First Prize ($10,000) ‘endtime’ by Nathan Curnow, Victoria
Second Prize ($5,000) ‘Always Sometimes Never’ by Andrew Slattery, New South Wales
Commended ($2,500) ‘One Broken Knife’ by Carmen Leigh Keates, Queensland
Commended ($2,500) ‘Dead Sea Psalms’ by Jill Pattinson, Victoria

Judges' comments: http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Read the 2009 and 2010 winners and see the judges' comments at http://www.textjournal.com.au/ulrick
Visit the Griffith University website http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/school-humanities/news-and-events/josephine-ulrick-prizes

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Jordie Albiston winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier’s Award for Literature) for her collection ‘the sonnet according to ‘m’
Jordie Albiston lives in Melbourne, where she was born in 1961. She is a poet whose work frequently reflects historical research. Australian composer Andrée Greenwell has adapted two of her books (Botany Bay Document, 1996 - retitled Dreaming Transportation - and The Hanging of Jean Lee, 1998) for music-theatre: both enjoyed seasons at the Sydney Opera House. Nervous Arcs won the Mary Gilmore Award for a first book of Australian poetry in 1995, and was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize. Her fourth collection, The Fall, was shortlisted for Premier's Prizes in Victoria, NSW and Queensland. Here fifth, Vertigoa cantata was published by John Leonard Press, in 2007. She holds a PhD in literature.
The letter ‘m' is emblematic of recurrence and precipitousness in these poems. They emerge with the wantonness of sensations in everyday life. In this case three lives: maternal grandmother, paternal great-great grandmother and the poet. Jordie Albiston, with characteristic delicacy and zest, limns these very different women as perspectives to each other.
Recurrence is intrinsic to sonnets. They are patterned internally, and are often paroxysmal: a perfect form and formation for poems which worry the distinction between the fatal and the banal. The sequence tells what happens when you admit the existential into everyday life, in small or large doses. The results can be desolate, or sublime. And comedic as well: Albiston knows how to play between darkness and send-up, when it comes to an arduous and animating tension between body and mind.
The Sonnet According to 'M' is published by John Leonard Press
Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to ‘m'

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Derek Motion - winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets for his work “forest hill”
07 Apr 2010 : A national prize held in honour of Australian poet Judith Wright has been awarded to Charles Sturt University (CSU) postgraduate student, Mr Derek Motion. The 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, valued at $3 000, has been won by the poet and PhD student for his work, ‘forest hill’.
The successful poets featured at a presentation event at the Melbourne Emerging Writers’ Festival on Saturday 29 May, alongside Keri Glastonbury and Gig Ryan (poetry editors of Overland and The Age respectively).
In addition to the prize money, Mr Motion’s poem will be published in the next issue of Overland, a quarterly e-bulletin about events, politics and literature. He was presented the poetry award at the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival in the Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday 29 May.

Commenting on the winning entries including Mr Motion’s work, judge Dr Keri Glastonbury found, “…this loose-knit community is where a lot of the energy and action in Australian poetry is, and I look forward to seeing these poets release first books”.
Mr David Gilbey, Senior Lecturer in English at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga said, “I'm delighted at Derek's continuing success in the lists of Australian letters. Derek's poetry is concentrated, allusive, multi-faceted, drawing on literary traditions and contemporary cultural and technological practices. It is also finely human and wittily self-facing - a pleasure to read.
“Like Judith Wright's poetry, Derek combines metaphysical, personal and social concerns. He richly deserves this award and it's a mark of the modernity and integrity of the judging that his poetry has been recognised.”

Mr Motion named his poem ‘forest hill' after the area on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga where he spent some of his early years and where went to primary school.
“In particular I think I was concerned with locating imagery surrounding the time when you start to become who you are; a kind of site of individuation and thinking about what this means for the adult me,” Mr Motion said.

It is not the first time the CSU postgraduate student has had his work honoured at the national level.
In October 2009, Mr Motion received an Australia Council 2010 Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Initiative Grant, valued at $15 000. Read more here.

Mr Motion is doing his PhD through the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Wagga Wagga. His research focuses on his own poetry in the context of Australian poets, Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) and Michael Dransfield (1948-1973).
Living in Wagga Wagga with his young family, Mr Motion is also Director of the Booranga Writers’ Centre at CSU.

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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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Emma Jones WINNER Best First Collection, FORWARD PRIZE for her collection ‘The Striped World’
Congratulations to Australian poet, 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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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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Christine Paice WINNER of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2009
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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VOICEWORKS MAGAZINE
TURNED 21 - The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine.
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 Words We Found available through all good bookshops and online at www.expressmedia.org.au http://www.expressmedia.org.au/ 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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Best wishes,
Cathy Bray
for Brook Emery and the Poets Union committee,
Poets Union Inc,
PO Box 755,
POTTS POINT NSW 1335

Tel. (02) 9357 6602 (Tuesdays & Wednesdays)
Email: info@poetsunion.com
Please visit the Poets Union website: www.poetsunion.com
and our new blog: www.poetsunioninc.blogspot.com

The Australian Poetry Festival 'Inventing the Tradition' 3-5 September

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The seventh Australian Poetry Festival : 3-5th September ‘Inventing the Tradition’

Announcing the program for ‘Inventing the Tradition’ the seventh Australian Poetry Festival to be presented by the Poets Union.

Inventing the Tradition is designed to be challenging and, above all, to be entertaining and stimulating. It is a festival not a conference but it has the serious aim of investigating the relationship between the mainstream and the margins, between tradition and the avant-garde. Poets will be reading from their own work but they will be contextualising their readings by reference to poets whom they admire and by briefly mentioning the theories, traditions (or anti-traditions) from which they write. Readings will mix ‘n match poets from different aesthetic theories and practices to expose the audience to different ways of thinking about poetry. It is hoped you will hear poets and ideas that you may not have met before in Sydney.

We are pleased that the Judith Wright Memorial Lecture will be delivered this year by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Chris is one of Australia’s most respected poets and academics. He is also Chair of the Australian Poetry Centre and Interim Co-Chair of Australian Poetry.

Papers from the festival will be published in a special edition of Five Bells towards the end of the year. They will make a significant contribution to discussions about the nature and scope of contemporary poetry in Australia and spread the ideas beyond the festival’s specific time and place.

Event: Inventing the Tradition - the seventh Australian Poetry Festival
Dates: Friday 3rd September – Sunday 5th September
Time: between 10 am — 5:30pm, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September.
Location: Central Sydney festival events take place in Kings Cross over 3, 4 and 5 September.

The cocktail party: will be held at The Sugar Mill on Friday 3 September
Date: Friday 3rd September
Time: 7 pm - 9 pm, Friday 3 September.
Venue: in the cocktail bar of the Sugarmill Hotel,
Address: 33-37 Darlinghurst Road,
Kings Cross

Main festival events: will take place in the Rex Centre at Kings Cross.
Address: 58A Macleay Street
Kings Cross (entrance across the square from the El Alamein fountain and next to the post office, near Baroda Street),

Accommodation: Festival guests are staying at the De Vere Hotel,
Address: 44 - 46 Macleay Street, Potts Point.
Accommodation, restaurants, cafes and pub are plentiful.

A copy of the program and a booking form is attached (below)

lOVE @ tHE bAR - the fINAL CHAPter. And U R INvited!

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There is NO CURtain Call, NO CUEs, NO more white and black, NO more MUSes,NO more Sydney Writers Festival, T here is NO mORe ti Me BUT there is more l OV E l OV E! t HE RE is mORe 2 C on screen. MOre to C and EXperience together. A special occasion to share with sPEciAL people. And U R INvited!

On behalf of Laureate Productions I thank you 4 your talent, support & PROfessionalism. This is a celebration in recognition of that and of the BEautiful collaborative ART that HAPpens, "eVERYtime U wALk in tHE rOOm," so says my Uncle Mike, (The Searchers).

From within and without I lOVE UR wORK! It pushes and inspIres in ALL the rIght wAys. A bottoms up CHinks - ThANkYOU!
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please note this is not an exclusive event so please feel free to invite those dearest and nearest.

RSVP to give me an idea of numbers: Angela Stretch

And for those of you who haven't met the lovely Lesley, she has been a staunch supporter of what we are doing & is kindly allowing us space within TAP to celebrate. THANK YOU - lOVERlY!!!!!!!!!!!