September 2011
18 posts
Caleb Lewis…On Monologues | Fresh Ink →
There are few moments onstage more powerful than a good monologue. Done right it’s an act of virtuosity, a brief moment of stillness where everything else falls away save one startling single voice. Done badly it’s a twenty-minute drum solo – at best self-indulgent, at worst an interruption the audience endures waiting patiently for the show to resume. A great monologue might work for many...
“The shortlist for the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize 2011 have just been...”
– Ruby Street: Whitmore Prize shortlist
The Rereaders →
millproject:
The Rereaders is a fortnightly literary and cultural podcast featuring Sam Twyford-Moore, Fiona Wright and Rebecca Giggs. It’s awesome.
Red Room Company's The Analogue Crusader →
The epic animation project with the exciting Red Room Company is coming into it’s final stages. The large pop up book and animation collated over a hundred poems gathered from Red Room Poetry workshops as well as a selection of established Australian Poets.The animation tells the story of Alex Malwalski, a travelling story teller and poetry collector, struggling to preserve the analogue...
Popshot Magazine | The Poetry & Illustration... →
Popshot is a bi-annual British based art publication that champions contemporary poetry and illustration. Gently intent on hoodwinking poetry back from the clammy hands of tweed jackets and school anthologies, Popshot looks to celebrate the poetry of today and tomorrow with the whimsical arms of illustration wrapped tightly round it. We are of the thought that the future of poetry is even...
2011 Blake Poetry Prize – Winner Announced →
Robert Adamson has been awarded the 2011 Blake Poetry Prize for his poem Via Negativa The Divine Dark.
“The next time you are chatting away at a pub or cafe, take a look around. There...”
– Like a knock on your door from a neighbour, ‘Knuckled’ raps on Sydney streets | StreetCorner.com.au
“Storied News Limited literary insert The Australian Literary Review will publish...”
– Australian Literary Review will fold after Group of Eight unis pull out | Crikey
“One might be surprised to learn that there are many women writers of Maltese...”
– Maltese women writers in Australia - timesofmalta.com
The Angry Genius of Les Murray by J. M. Coetzee |... →
Fi on the modernists!
“Ali Alizadeh’s latest collection, Ashes in the Air, blows across the fault lines...”
– Tina Giannoukos reviews Ali Alizadeh | Cordite Poetry Review
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Sydney City Poet: First things →
Kate Middleton has started a tumblr of her times as the City of Sydney Poet…
sydneycitypoet:
Poets revel in the chance to celebrate: so much of what we do is solitary that whether its having a poem accepted for publication, seeing our books on the shelf in a book shop or finding out some grant or prize has come our way, we feel that all our solo toil was worth it and raise a…
Poetry Payment Rates | Adam Ford →
Adam Ford surveys the payment rates for poetry journals and zines in Australia.
“I’m more inclined to think online/digital media will supplement, rather than...”
– Vox: Ben Carmichael « Verity La (via millproject) 