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- Jessica Cook on Life Matters, ...
Life Matters, ABC Radio National
Tuesday, March 24 at 9:00am
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We are currently SEEKING PROPOSALS for events, activities, ideas and
opportunities (poetry-related please) which we could assist you to
manage, market, promote or produce at our NATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL in
Goolwa, South Australia: April 23-26, 2010. Check our website for
details: http://www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au
www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au
Sometimes, the outlets seem so thin: television,exercise, either side of minor violences. Writingin the Carlton Gardens, this mannered shadow,
Cafe Poets Friday 26 June: Sospeso Readings, Hawthorn VIC 7.00pm - Featuring Anthony O’Sullivan, Myron Lysenko and Ezra Bix as MC. First half of the evening is Open Mic for poets to perform their work and the best few will be selected to read on the APC podcast No
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We're back with a new Cafe Poet profile! Fiona Mcllroy takes centrestage today: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=26
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Profile of Fiona McIIroy.
Born 1947 in Melbourne, I have travelled widely, with a micro-climatologist father who went to arid places like Arizona and Egypt. After studying language, literature and philosophy, I moved bush. Twenty-two years in far East Gippsland developing an intentional community called Warm
Corners Co-...op, and three children later, I moved to Canberra for children's high schooling.
In my community sector roles, I became known as the community poet who could never resist placing verse in the newsletters as well as prose.
In 2000, I joined my mother May Cecily Wright, sister-in-law Deb Foskey and sister Fran McIlroy in publishing a poetry collection titled: Warm Corners (Gininderra Press). As a teacher of all ages, community edeucator, workshop leader and life coach, I enjoy encouraging others to realise their potential. The Australian landscape is a deep sorce of nourishment and inspiration, as evident in the recent book of poetry titled: Taste of a Poem:
(Ginninderra Press) The poems take heart from a love of life and the earth in all its awesome beauty. Social comment and satire are another element of my poetry. Being resident poet in a cafe is my natural habitat when not at the Bowen Creek.
Cafe Poets Graham Nunn features three fellow Cafe Poets on his blog - Josephine Rowe, Amelia Walker and Lara Taylor. Longer profiles and some writing featured.
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Poets and cafes have always been a happy match and currently there are a number ofpoets undertaking residencies in cafesAustralia wide,thanks to an initiative of the Australian Poetry Centre. And there are some exciting projects happening as a result.
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Laura Smith studied creative writing at the University of Wollongong, then spent a year telling people she was a writer who doesn't write.
She studied to become a lighting technician, then spent a year telling people she was an audience member who doesn't pay.
Laura's publication history includes Voiceworks, 4W, ArtsHub,... Riverina Theatre Company, and Radio National. She has since begun work on a collection of poems about working in the theatre industry.
Laura can be found writing at Caffe Sospeso, Hawthorn, Victoria. www.caffesospeso.com.au for more information.
Cafe Poets Let us remember Anzac in our writings today.
Cafe Poets The Melbourne Cafe poets have been asked to be part of an RMIT film/video/internet project where RMIT university students will film their poems. Congratulations Melbourne Cafe Poets! maybe we could get this happening elsewhere?
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Lara Taylor won her first poetry comp at age 9 with a poem entitled ‘My Horrible Brother’. Her style hasn’t changed much since then; she enjoys a simple childlike use of words to explore complex human themes. In 2006 she won The Literary Prize for a performance at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta for her poem ‘I am ...looking at the Masses’, an exploration into human pain and the search for meaning. Recent titles include ‘The Flippy Floppy Bunny Rabbit’, ‘The Very Sad Poem’, a comical piece about her desire to have a more elegant vocabulary and ‘From Hiam to Lebanon and Back’. Travel with her on a journey which may be deep and profound or comically ludicrous. Her work stirs the emotions and can move an audience to stillness. Lara names Dr Seuss, Shakespeare, Hemingway and Blyton as writers who have inspired, as well as her own life experiences and the mothering of two lovely boys.
Lara writes at the Mortdale Grind Cafe in Mortdale, Sydney.
Cafe Poets 37 fans! Thanks for the support, friends. Spread the Cafe Poet word around. We hope you'll interact with our lovely poets, have a cuppa or two, and write alongside them.
Cafe Poets New Cafe Poet profile: Anne Collins, Cafe Poet at Chado Way of Tea, Hobart TAS. Author of 'Season of Chance' (Walleah Press, 2005) and 'Seasoned with Honey' (Walleeah Press, 2008), an award-winning four poet anthology.
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Anne Collins writes poetry, essays, reviews and stories. Her work is published in literary magazines in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Her two books are 'Season of Chance' (Walleah Press, 2005) and 'Seasoned with Honey' (Walleah Press, 2008), a four poet anthology that, as a manuscript, won a national FAW award in... 2007.
Anne is Cafe Poet at Chado Way of Tea, Hobart TAS.
