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

 

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…

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…

What we noticed while noodling about on the internets this week...

• David Prater documents the dialogue between Korean and Australian poets for Cordite 35.…

Bumf is an informal word used to describe, in a slightly derogatory way, the superfluous or unnecessary paper documents that fill our everyday life such as forms, Government documents, publicity material, junk mail etcetera.

Now if you are gentile and don’t like crudity be aware that this fascinating…

Adam Aitken, Tonto's Revenge (Tinfish Press 2011)



Tinfish Press is a small Hawai'ian publishing house run by Susan M Schultz, the poet who wrote Dementia Blog. It publishes…

Usually when an opportunity crosses our desk we simply post it in the Events section with all the other opportunities for sydneypoetry.com members to go at with hammers and tongs. This one though is too delightfully named, and scoped, to go without better…

• Australian Poetry launches Sotto , a "monthly online members-only collection of interesting articles, commentary and poetry from contributors across the country."…

In my day job I help businesses with their website strategy – I'm what's called an information architect. That's right, have a good laugh.

Anyway, one of the things I do is keep an eye on website statistics to see how sites are performing. This being a member site I thought it might be of interest to y'all to have a sneaky peak at the monthly…

Adam Ford has put out another poetry mixtape of awesome, and I just want to pinch his cheeks for coming up with the idea.

Being the 8th in an itinerant series of lists of poetry that I found online and brought home to love and hug and call George…

Poets included in this month's tape are MC Allan, Cate Kennedy, John Ashbery (an…

Cate Kennedy, The Taste of River Water (Scribe 2011)

When Cate Kennedy read, marvellously, from this book at the Sydney Writers' Festival, she talked her poems as meditations through narrative, and that's a nice description. Her poems generally have a narrative thread, whether it's…

Originally posted on Adam in ( Glebe Sydney…

Kerry Leves

1948…

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…

EKPHRASTIC POETRY

from the greek, Ekphrasis

is the production of poetic (written) responses to visual artworks.

A loose…