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November 2010 Blog Posts (4)

Warning: Hipster Poet Zine

Every now and then I come across a magazine that I wish we had in Australia... this is one of those.

“As a fixie poet, I’m against two things: bike brakes and line breaks.”

Via http://www.latfh.com/

Added by Adrian Wiggins on November 19, 2010 at 13:30 — 2 Comments

Australian Poetry Needs a 2011 Poet in Residence

If I were a Poet in Residence I would relocate the family to Ettalong Caravan Park and write fetching odes with narrative and local colour – the surfers, the fishermen, the bowlers, the septic...

Well, ok that's me.

What about you... Sure your digs are pretty champ. How about those poems you write... awesome, right! Imagine now the champer and awesomer…

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Added by Adrian Wiggins on November 8, 2010 at 21:00 — No Comments

Coming up: Best Australian Poetry 2010

Ah – it's that time of year when poets all over Australia lie awake wondering if they've been given the nod, picked from the madding crowd and been borne aloft, up and into the firmament of those whose poems are best. Have I mixed enough metaphors for ya yet?…

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Added by Adrian Wiggins on November 3, 2010 at 9:00 — 3 Comments

Just received: Meanjin Vol 69/3

As you may be aware... there's been a mishap at Meanjin.

Editor Sophie Cunningham, who has overseen the last few years of Meanjin and steered it to becoming one of the most attractively designed & compiled literary journals around, has unexpectedly resigned her contract.… Continue

Added by Adrian Wiggins on November 2, 2010 at 12:30 — No Comments