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

Jeff Sparrow (editor), Overland 203, Winter 2011

This is another excellent issue of Overland.…

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…

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…

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…

2:30: Poems on Pillows

Australian Poetry Ltd, the new 'peak industry body for poetry' (I didn't make that up!) ran a competition in the lead-up to the Festival. People were asked to submit 10-line poems on the theme of Sweet Dreams. Seven poems were selected, printed on postcards and placed on the pillow of every bed in the hotel where Festival guests were staying. At this session the seven winning poems were read to us, six of them by the poets.

My guess is that…

This was in a much bigger venue than other poetry events, and we were told that it could have filled a space twice the size. It was one of a series of events around Australia to celebrate the recent publication of the UWA Collected Poems. The book's editor, Toby Davidson, has organised and chaired the events, in which local poets read poems by Webb and speak briefly of their connections to him.

Toby D is a young man…

 

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…