Originally posted on Blue Pepper Monday May 23, 2011.

News came today of the untimely demise of one of the true legends of Sydney bibliophilia and out-and-out ratbaggery, Bob…

Cross-posted from Andy's Writing Blog

One of our members got in touch recently about how to add videos from YouTube.

Here's the step by step process using a Red Room Company video as an example (and this one's already been added here).

1. Find a video on YouTube that you'd like to share on the sydneypoetry.com site. (Don't forget to check it's not…

Poet and novelist (and sydneypoetry.com site member) David Musgrave has been shortlisted in the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards in the Fiction list. Congratulations to David. Congratulations also to Roberta Lowing, another Sydney poet and organiser of the…

From our friends at Cordite

Cordite's special thirty-fifth issue, showcases new poetry from Australia (OZ) and the Republic of Korea (KO). Over the next three months, this site will play host to a range of new works including poetry in English and Hangul, critical essays, feature articles, interviews, photo essays…

Sometimes there's so many good poetry events on I get confused about what they are, or where or when.

It's just possible I'm not alone, and so for a while now I've been planning a weekly email to members to share upcoming poetry events.

Today is that day when my dreams came true. Well, ok, I sent the email.

The email will be sent weekly mostly because…

2:30: Poems on Pillows

Australian Poetry Ltd, the new 'peak industry body for poetry' (I didn't make that up!) ran a competition in the lead-up to the Festival. People were asked to submit 10-line poems on the theme of Sweet Dreams. Seven poems were selected, printed on postcards and placed on the pillow of every bed in the hotel where Festival guests were staying. At this session the seven winning poems were read to us, six of them by the poets.

My guess is that…

This was in a much bigger venue than other poetry events, and we were told that it could have filled a space twice the size. It was one of a series of events around Australia to celebrate the recent publication of the UWA Collected Poems. The book's editor, Toby Davidson, has organised and chaired the events, in which local poets read poems by Webb and speak briefly of their connections to him.

Toby D is a young man…

A poem about my struggle with anxiety and therapy. Anxiety that resulted from a dysfunctional relationship with the parents...please feel free to provide feedback :)

psychological assessments and neurological complexes

occurring everyday, occurring at the nexus,

at the place of recovery, the place of discovery,

the place where you will find, the child who is lost in your mind

the place where you can be, the person you've failed to see

so realising it's in…

 

Image: AC Grayling (above) spoke on the Thursday May 19th session 'The Poetry of War' at the Sydney Writers Festival.

Ed: Jonathan Shaw has cross posted several…

well this is just something i did in about 10 minutes just now, i don't know if its any good but i like it, i thought i'd like to see what everyone else though - i have other ones that i would like to share but this i might show first just to test out the waters - just a bit of background on the piece, i'm not the most feminine of girls so i have lived with such commentary my whole life and i feel it doesn't really matter what i am

Ask me about my sexual…

We loved the reading by Rhyll McMaster last night, she is an accomplished reader who has a very personal and welcoming style. Her poetry conveys the beauty and transcendence of the everyday. Thank you Rhyll, it was a  real privilege.



If you would like to hear more of her work, she will be reading on Saturday 14th at 3pm (Repeated on Thursday at 3pm) on ABC radio national's "Poetica"…

http://www.murgatroid.com/china.html

For a brief overview of the Language Poetry movement, go here >>   http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5661

Cleo