Launch: Les Wicks & Paul Cliff

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Launch: Les Wicks & Paul Cliff

Time: February 5, 2012 from 2:30pm to 5pm
Location: Friend in Hand Hotel
Event Type: launch, members
Organized By: Les Wicks
Latest Activity: Jan 22, 2012

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Event Description

COME & CELEBRATE LANGUAGE

 

On Sunday 5th February, 2:30 PM you are invited to a gathering with the

launch of five titles:

AU/UA Contemporary Poetry of Ukraine & Australia

Les Wicks - Shadows of the Read

Paul Cliff – Vanuatu Moon: prose poems –Books 1 & 2

Les Wicks - Barking Wings

at

 

the Friend in Hand Hotel

58 Cowper St, Glebe

upstairs bar

2.30pm

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AU/UA Contemporary Poetry of

Ukraine & Australia

 

This e-book is the first collection of contemporary poetry from both countries in both languages accompanied by rich photography. Exchanges between our two dynamic cultures are yet to fully develop & this work is an important step in that process. Work includes some of both nations’ leading writers plus some younger voices.

 

The title can be downloaded freely at:

http://meusepress.tripod.com/AUUA.pdf

http://issuu.com/meusepress/docs/auua

http://krokbooks.com/ebooks/krokbooks.com_auua.pdf

ISBN 978-966-2362-84-8

 

Published by Krok Books in association with Meuse Press.

 

The anthology will be launched by Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn. Bilingual reading of poems on the day. Unique opportunity to hear a great old language from a young country.

Yummy Ukrainian snacks will be provided.

 

Event generously sponsored by Ukrainian Studies Foundation in Australia
and Ukrainian Council of NSW.

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Also available is Les Wicks’ Shadows of the Read – a chapbook of poetry in Ukrainian & English by Krok Books.

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Paul Cliff – Vanuatu Moon: prose poems Books 1 and 2.

 

Cliff's wry and observant take on Vanuatu, in two booklets (chapbooks). His fourth (and fifth) published volumes of poetry.

Another great title from PressPress. $9.90 each

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Les Wicks - Barking Wings

 

Wicks’ 10th book is full of feathers, life, shadow & laughter. Beguiling language, a bam-bam-bam of image is all underpinned by a core accessibility that invites you in...”

 

$9.90 published by PressPress

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Should you be unable to attend copies of the books can be purchased.

 

 

Paul Cliff's books are available from: http://www.wellsprungproductions.com.au/PressPress/PressPress_Home.html

 

Les Wicks' Barking Wings is available from:

http://www.wellsprungproductions.com.au/PressPress/PressPress_Home.html

or from the poet's homepage

http://leswicks.tripod.com/books.htm . Shadows of the Read can also be ordered here.

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