Dear friends, you are invited to attend poetry on Sunday at 2pm. I am pleased to relay that our feature poet this month is the delightful Norah Krouk. I would also like to remind you that Alec George, Coordinator of Brett Whiteley Studio will be running a special talk
...on Brett Whiteley’s famous work, Alchemy, prior to poetry. The work has poignant references to well known poets of the past. Interior of the Brett Whiteley Studio, featuring Brett Whiteley’s painting Alchemy 1972-73. 1.30pm Alchemy talk | Sunday >>>25 March 2012 Duration 30 minutes | FREE! 2.00pm Nora Krouk | Sunday >>> 25 March 2012 Born 90 years ago in Harbin, China, Norah Krouk has written Russian poetry since childhood, switching to English while living in Hong Kong. Her Russian poetry has been published in various Shanghai magazines, New York’s New Review and Israel’s Yegund Yotseisin, as well as in the anthology Russian Poetry in China, published in Moscow in 2000 (winner of Russian Booker). In 1993 she won the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Jean Stone Award and won first prize for poetry in the 2008 Antipodes Russian Literature Festival. Norah Krouk | Warming the Core of Things "If warmth and wisdom are the two dominant qualities of this book, it is the voice of the poems which makes them so attractive." Brook Emery, Mascara Literary Review http://tiny.cc/kbbau ‘My poems’ meaning reads like open palms …’ Nora Krouk writes of ardour, intimacy and pain in great age with wit and spontaneity. Her candour and the idiosyncratic rhythm and lineation of her verse contribute a strong and different voice to Australian poetry. She writes through a prismatic cultural perspective and with unremitting honesty of what it is to love and lose love at 90. Her technique and the tenor of this work make it powerful and haunting. Anna Kerdijk Nicholson Read another review on Whispering Gums: http://whisperinggums.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/nora-krouk-warming-the-core-of-things/ Nora Krouk’s poetry bears the traces of her Russian cultural heritage: lyricism, candour, a sense of the individual caught up in the tide of history, an appreciation of love, friendship, hospitality and beauty in all its forms in the course of a long and eventful life. John Carey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Readings at Brett Whiteley Studio Toby Fitch >>> Sunday 22 April 2012 Kate Middleton >>> Sunday 27 May 2012 Laura Shore >>> Sunday 24 June 2012 Thank you Rosnay Wines for their beautifully palatable organic wine. Visit their website to order your wine directly. www.rosnay.com.au For further information contact the Coordinator, Angela Stretch e angela.stretch@gmail.com
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