ALL WELCOME as the second sydneypoetry.com bookclub convenes at 7pm on Monday 30 August upstairs at Madam Fling Flongs (aka Soni's – 169 King St, Newtown) to discuss Judith Beveridge's Storm and Honey.

(Sometimes there are private functions on upstairs, so if we're not up there, we'll be perched in the front bar downstairs.)

What you need to do between now and then: read the book, develop an opinion. (If you can't find the book in bookshops or the library, you could place an order online with Giramondo. )

Oh and and have a think about what title we should do next!

About Storm and Honey
(via Giramondo)

The major part of Storm and Honey portrays the working life of a trawler’s crew, fishing in estuarine and coastal waters. It opens with the discovery of a child’s corpse inside the belly of a shark – an intensity which is held throughout as the poems respond to the visceral shock of the fishing, the characters of the men, and the power of light and wind and water.

These energies are so fully enacted in the language of the poems, in their visual and aural effects, that you feel there is a claim being made for poetry itself as an elemental power. Elsewhere there is delight and comedy too, in poetry’s ability to distill the storm.

Storm and Honey has won the 2010 Grace Leven Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the 2010 NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry.

Judith Beveridge is one of Australia’s most highly regarded poets, the author of three books of poetry, The Domesticity of Giraffes, Accidental Grace and Wolf Notes (Giramondo, 2003), which won both the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry and the Queensland Premier’s Judith Wright Calanthe Poetry Prize. Her poems are widely studied in schools and universities. She teaches creative writing at the University of Sydney, and is the poetry editor of Meanjin. In 2005 she was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature.

Can't make it?
Can't make it to the August Bookclub? Join us in September.

About sydneypoetry.com Bookclub
A monthly meet-up to discuss a recently published title. All welcome. We all read the same book. We meet on the last Monday of the month. We talk about the book. We choose another book for next month. Simple. Clean. Fun.

For online discussion go to the Poetry Bookclub group.