Artwork: She Prefers Fires, 2008, Ink and cotton on fine art paper, Tamryn Bennett, www.tamrynbennett.com

Just yesterday I got hold of the program for the Poetry and the Contemporary Conference to be held in the Victorian…

Cathy Bray's eighth memorial attempt at a blog - very hard if you keep forgetting your password. Luddites unite!

The 19 year old is back on mid-semester break from WAAPA Musical Theatre and very short of funds...hence an afternoon devoted to the creation of my shiny new tumblr 'may its tribe increase' - I won't tell if you won't, if you know this is from Abou Ben Adam  www.cathybraythepoet.tumblr.com

"onya"  Adrian,

What a feast !!

Making a choice will be difficult enough. 

Then one has to 'dig in' to decide what, when, where, then how.

Should keep me busy for a 'coupla' days.

"Thanks"

Jim. 26/6/11.

Life isn't about how you survived the storm...

it's about how you danced in the rain!

*****

So true for all of us.

All that follows is an ABC excerpt which members may find interesting –

"Kim Scott…

From the weekly email to members

This week there's a deluge of opportunities closing including three 'city' gigs: …

I have been wondering why the English are so fond of chariots. Chariots are a recurring theme in English identity and in their rugby songs. They even made a film called after them. What is it all about?

Chariot is a relatively recent word. It originates in 14^th century French as an extension of…

• Justin Lowe of Bluepepper is calling for…

Kandos poet Terry Yates will launch the Kandos Writers' Group inaugural Anthology titled Kandos Moments on Friday 1 July at 4pm at the Kandos Returned Services Community Club, 20 Dangar Street, Kandos.

The Kandos Writers' first collection features short stories, a letter, memoir and poetry.

Local artist Judi Martinelli Rasmusssen's delightful work complements this diverse pallette of styles.

The group meet at the Kandos Library and are part of the Fellowship of…

Arabanoo Lookout

On the cold lookout

At Arabanoo

The sky that night

 Black and inescapable,

Descended on us as all air,

And touched the spanned mirror

Of black water skin.

 …

Long have I prefered DeviantArt to Flickr, as I like the more ecclectic collection of ‘deviations’ (or text/art/photo/whatever-you-submissions) to the focus on photography at Flickr.

One of the best thinigs that I have found through my ramblings through DA are the other (seemingly increasing amount of?) ‘deviants’ and groups working on pieces of…

Up in the warm womb of Heidelberg

surrounded by lush sub tropical plants

palms, and the song of the Thrush

embraced by the ever changing skyline

wave riders, and Atlantic winds:

the  stream of consciousness flows...

Tanami Trek

             part 2.

Suplejack Station is now far behind,

this journey so far is one of a kind.

One of me brothers said don’t be a big sook,

just suck it up, it wont be too crook,

now only a few hundred kilometres to go

it’d be bloody worse if there was  - - -  snow.

We hope we won’t have to - overtake a…

• Chair of Australian Poetry Chris Wallace-Crabbe (pictured)…

Some dated news -

Few are as aware of the need to rescue poetry from the art world's metaphorical gulag than Paul Kooperman, the national director of Australian Poetry, which runs the cafe poet-in-residence program.

''It's a huge challenge. Enormous,'' he says. ''We launched an iPhone app a couple of weeks ago, and the funny thing about that is when you search 'Australian Poetry' [on the internet], you get Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and now our app. There's such a gap between…

And the winners are: • Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 Best Book for The Memory of Love • Craig Cliff wins Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 Best First Book for A Man Melting • Defining books "of our time", say judges.

The 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize were announced in Sydney.

The judges praised The Memory of Love for its risk taking, elegance and breadth. A poignant story about friendship, betrayal, obsession and second chances – the novel is an…

Stadia versus stadiums

This week more FIFA executives are denying corruption charges; the awarding of the 2022 FIFA Soccer World Cup to Qatar (which Australia had tried to bid for) is again being questioned; and Sepp Blatter (pictured), the man in charge, was re-elected unopposed as FIFA…

First an apology for the unicorn. Do not be alarmed. You have not inadvertently arrived at a site devoted to unicorns. This is a site for poetry, and this is a post about a post on a poem for a unicorn. Confused? Neither are we! And there is no cause for concern.

Now on with apologising to unicorns.

You may recall the…

On Friday last week sydneypoetry.com passed an exciting milestone – our 300th member joined. Welcome again Anna B Rasztabiga. Since Friday six more people have joined so we're on our way to 400.  Welcome again, of course, to all…