July 2011 Blog Posts (24)

Improving your vocabulary with malapropisms

Improving your vocabulary and word choice will help you properly reticulate [sic] your ideas.

I am not incinerating [sic] that any of you lack the consecration…

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Added by Tim Entwisle on July 31, 2011 at 12:42 — No Comments

Trading visual for verbal?

I'm thinking about working up some nerve and heading down to a poetry slam workshop in Brisbane in September.  There's one on tomorrow afternoon as well, but I (conveniently) have work to get done for Monday...

 

The September workshop though - I think it's a go-er!

Who here does slam poetry?  How do you prepare??

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Added by kelli mcgraw on July 31, 2011 at 2:00 — 3 Comments

Failed Blogger

The other day, I found myself scrounging through pages of sites listed under 'history' and I stumbled across my own blog---- 'A new mission'

The text ran for just under 500 words...but basically, I sought to dicipline myself and set myself the goal of writing a bit of my thoughts down EVERYDAY for the next 365. (I know...how unoriginal, right?)

And that was the only post I achieved...

 

Why is there no spell check box here? EXcuse all the typos in advance,…

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Added by Jessie Tu on July 26, 2011 at 18:46 — No Comments

Thanks for your welcome Adrian

Thanks for you welcome Adrian.I think poetry is good and fundamental to healthy gums. I hope I have something to say about wildlife particularly. And what could be more poetic than a fox in the hen house? Or snails of the window sill, and allow me to introduce mould in the shower recess. There is so much wildlife going on around us that we need to take stock occasionally and weigh up the relationship. With out wilderness we are nothing and never have been. I'm especially keen on elephants.…

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Added by Raymond H Wittenberg on July 26, 2011 at 9:09 — No Comments

The evolution of hack and hacking

Hack is a common word in English that has had a bit of a working out the last few weeks. It has an interesting history. There are really two sources of hack which explains the broad uses of the word, including one describing certain types of writers and poets. This week's story is presented as an infographic.

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Added by Tim Entwisle on July 25, 2011 at 9:43 — No Comments

The Sydney Poetry Morning Herald for Monday July 25, 2011





1972 interview with Allen Ginsberg about his own poetry and aboriginal Australian poetry.

  • Christopher Bantick…
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Added by Adrian Wiggins on July 25, 2011 at 2:11 — No Comments

Special Poetry offer from Giramondo

Giramondo is celebrating the release of two fine new collections of poetry by John Mateer and Joanne Burns with a special book deal. Both books are available for $40 - because we love Sydney Poets.…



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Added by Fiona Wright on July 22, 2011 at 17:25 — No Comments

NFSA Research Opportunity

http://www.nfsa.gov.au/research/research-fellowships/

 

Just came across this research opportunity with the National Film and Sound Archive..

 

Looks pretty punchy!  Those with an interest in practice-based research might like to check it out.

 

Cleo

Added by Cleo Mees on July 22, 2011 at 9:43 — 1 Comment

My discontent with abyssopelagic

Above: Sunfish in the epipelagic zone (Flickr:  Hiroto Kitagawa). Below: Sunfish side on.

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Added by Tim Entwisle on July 18, 2011 at 17:00 — 2 Comments

The Sydney Poetry Sun Herald for Sunday July 17, 2011



Clothing labels with poems printed on them are sewn clandestine in local Thrift Stores (via Agustina Woodgate)

Clothing labels with poems | Agustina Woodgate

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Added by Adrian Wiggins on July 18, 2011 at 0:25 — No Comments

Too much tar. Not enough adventure.

Travellin’ the Gibb.

 

They’re bungin’ some tar on the

Gibb River Road,

so hooray for the Nomads and their heavy load.

 

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I travelled it once,

a fair time in the past…

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Added by Jim Spain on July 16, 2011 at 18:00 — No Comments

ABPA WINNER.

Because it is so bloody marvellous, I must share with you the winning ABPA entry for this year -



A Bushman’s Last Farewell© 2011 - Catherine Clarke   

As a bushman I’ve been wandering for all my working life,
and I never settled down with home and family, a wife.
I just worked where work was going as a drover, station hand;
did some mustering and shearing, always working on the land. As the twilight of my years now finds me lost in solitude
and I…

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Added by Jim Spain on July 16, 2011 at 17:50 — No Comments

New Design

After some experimentation with Ning's 'theme designer' the new look for Sydney Poetry is settling in.

 

Let us all know what you think.


Added by Adrian Wiggins on July 12, 2011 at 23:30 — 6 Comments

oem "Passing Voices"

Passing Voices

Voices from darkness, muffled rhythms;
parallel with being.

Transformed; exuberant,
Consonant, rhythmic melody.

Voices drift to quiet dissonance,
Merge again with darkness.

 

Copyright Dallas Burgess 2011

 

Added by Dallas Burgess on July 12, 2011 at 19:02 — No Comments

Words about carbon

Carbon is a non-metallic element that makes up less than one per cent of the earth’s crust and 100 per cent of the Australian political debate.

Much of the world’s carbon is contained in coal that was created during the Carboniferous Period from 360 to 300 million years…

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Added by Tim Entwisle on July 11, 2011 at 18:00 — 7 Comments

Overland 203

Crossposted from Jonathan Shaw's blog Me Fail? I Fly!



Jeff Sparrow (editor), Overland 203, Winter 2011

This is another excellent issue of Overland.…

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Added by Jonathan Shaw on July 10, 2011 at 14:00 — 2 Comments

Andy Kissane's Every Night They Danced

Andy Kissane, Every Night They Dance (Five Islands Press 2000)

Crossposted from Jonathan Shaw's blog Me Fail? I Fly!



Someone I've never met emailed me to say they'd stumbled upon my blog…

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Added by Jonathan Shaw on July 10, 2011 at 13:30 — 1 Comment

A few words on "Out of the Box"

Cross posted from http://splashdownunder.blogspot.com

 

Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets…

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Added by Andy Quan on July 8, 2011 at 17:00 — 1 Comment

Word of the Week—The not so sweet life of dulcet

Choosing the right partner for your life journey can help you to achieve great things and to realise your full potential. Unfortunately choosing the wrong partner can drag you down and stop you achieving your promise. Unfortunately the pairing of dulcet and tones has not been a beneficial choice for the…

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Added by Tim Entwisle on July 4, 2011 at 22:00 — 1 Comment

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