RhiZomiC Poetry

the last Wednesday of every month

Poetry Party and open-mic

Featuring:

Louise Wakeling & Jenni Nixon

Louise Wakeling is a Sydney poet, teacher and reviewer whose work has appeared in many journals and anthologies over a number of years, including Blue Dog, Five Bells, Southerly, Westerly, Secret Cow and Going Down Swinging. Saturn Return, her novel was published by Hale & Iremonger in 1990. A second novel, Watermarks, was written as part of a PhD in 1998.
 
Her poems have been included in the recent anthologies,Out of the Box, edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009) and The Best Poems of 2010, edited by Robert Adamson (Black Inc. 2010). In 2007, Wakeling was awarded a Premier's English Teaching award to research the teaching of poetry in American universities and high schools by poet-professors and teachers.
 
A member of the RoundTable group of poets in Sydney, Wakeling has perfomed at several Sydney Writers' Festivals, in conversation with the Harbour City Poets.  She is also a member of the Sydney-based group DiVerse, who have composed and performed ekphrastic poetry for several years at art galleries in New South Wales and intestate.  She is currently writing poetry in conversation with the Harbour City Poets for a performance at the Sydney Writers' Festival in May, 2011 on the subject of the ''endless city".  Wakeling's latest collection of poetry is Paragliding in a war zone (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009). She is currently working on a new manuscript of ecopoetry.
 
Jenni Nixon is a Sydney poet and performer. Published Café Boogie (Interactive Press 2004). 2009: Agenda!  chapbook of political poems, (Picaro Press) Poetry in  anthologies,
Best Australian Poems, 2009, Black Ink, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets– Puncher & Wattman, Harbour City Poems  (Sydney in Verse l788-2008) – Puncher & Wattman, Semaphore Dancing & DotDotDash.  Commended. Marion Eldridge Award 2009. Best Australian Poems 2010, Black Ink. Antipodes Phoenix Education., 2011.
 
Wednesday March 30, 7-9 PM
Kerrie Lowe Gallery
49 King St. Newtown