Poetry News
River Readings to feature Mark Tredinnick
The next River Readings will be held at 6pm on Friday, 10 September and will feature Mark Tredinnick. Mark’s latest book, The Blue Plateau, is shortlisted for the Non Fiction category of the $100,000 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Support for the readings comes from Arts NSW.
River Readings is a regular poetry reading series in the [...]
The poetic image to be polished in Batemans Bay
One of Australia’s truly significant poets will give a workshop in Batemans Bay in August. Susan Hampton is that rare combination, a poet and editor, and this makes her a teacher of poetry with an insight into both the creative process and polishing a poem for publication. Susan’s work has been praised by critics for [...]
International poets read in Nowra
Three of China’s most promising emerging poets and two award-winning Australian poets will present an afternoon of public poetry readings in Nowra.
This free literary event will be held from 2pm until 4pm on 24 July at the Manse on Kinghorn Street Nowra, (opposite Aldi). The readings from Debby Sou Vai Keng, Iris Fan Xing [...]
Nowra’s River Readings - A Big Night for Shoalhaven Poets
South Coast Writers Centre, the Kitchen Table Poets and the Shoalhaven Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers are working together to put on regular poetry readings in the Shoalhaven Arts Centre.
The River Readings series will kick of with award-winning guest poet Brook Emery. At the first River Readings,there will also be ten local [...]
Awarding-winning writer to kick-start Illawarra’s aspiring poets
It’s surprising how many of us have been moved to write a poem, whether to mark an important event in our lives – a marriage, a birth, or a loss – or just to play with words.
Start Writing Poetry with award-winning poet Christine Paice is an introductory workshop that will give people who [...]
The All Poetry Competition – 2010 now open
Closing Date June 30, 2010
For all genres of poetry, length between 14 and 40 lines.
Open theme. First Prize: $150 Second Prize: $80 Third prize: $50
Each winner will receive a copy of Tangents by The Kitchen Table Poets
Entries to be postmarked no later than June 30, 2010.
No entry form required. Include a cover sheet showing name of entry(ies), [...]
Rocket Readings – Wollongong
They’re on again! The South Coast Writers’ Centre will hold another of its popular Rocket Readings on 8 December, with special guest star poets Chris Mansell and David Musgrave – plus the famous Rocket Readings Open Section. The event will be hosted by Linda Godfrey.
When: 6pm, 8 December 2009
Where: Phoenix Theatre, corner of Bridge Street [...]
Sea Things - the duffle bag is bulging!
Scores of South Coast people have taken pen to paper to add an Illawarra feel to a national literary project that is seeking to portray Australian’s love affair with the ocean through verse.
A duffle bag that arrived in Port Kembla a week ago on the third leg of the Sea Things project is now bulging with poems [...]
All Poetry Competition Results 09
First
‘Head of the Table’. Susan McCreery Thirroul NSW
Second
‘Malachite’. Dale Harcombe. Sanctuary Pt. NSW
Third
‘Marry I Would’. Alexandra Taylor. Mt Colah NSW
Highly Commended
‘Asperger’s Eyes’. David Campbell. Beaumaris Vic
‘Did I Tell You?’ David Campbell
Commended
‘Deconstructing Dan Brown’. John Carey. Chatswood NSW
‘Downstream’. John Egan. Ashfield NSW
Shortlisted
‘Memory’. Joanne Mills. Darlington WA
‘Mute’. Joanne Mills
‘High Summer’. Dorothy Swoope. Milton NSW
Congratulations to everyone. These [...]
BUY TANGENTS, KITCHEN TABLE POETS NEW COLLECTION
take seven poets, a kitchen table
and a famous artist
what do you get?
The Kitchen Table Poets, seven Shoalhaven women who meet monthly to share their love of poetry and read their latest works around a kitchen table, have published a new book – Tangents. Containing a collection of diverse poetry, the book is a visual delight. [...]
