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…

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

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.…

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

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Clothing labels with poems | Agustina Woodgate

• Bonny Cassidy on Harwood, Malley, myths and hoaxes | So Long Bulletin
• Michelle Cahill's…

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

Let us all know what you think.

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…

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

Jeff Sparrow (editor), Overland 203, Winter 2011

This is another excellent issue of Overland.…

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

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

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…

We started The Raggamuffin because we were sick of reading bad poems by the same old poets in reputable journals. We were sure, as many of you are, that such poems were only published because their creators were famous, had been published before, or were friends with the editors.

We were also sick of the technophobic fog that continues to…

Thomas Arthur Guy…

Image: Sydney artist Gabriella Hirst with some of her work.

Cross-posted from the Something Else 89.7fm blog.

This post is a response to an interview with Gabriella Hirst, a…

Cordite's first homepage.

• Cordite first went online in 2000 and the homepage was fairly plain. See how Cordite evolved in David…

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…

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…

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…