FINDINGS

• How Language Enabled “Visual Theft,” Sparked Innovation, and Helped...

• The Fifty Most Quoted Lines of Poetry (The Inky Fool). "Shakespeare doesn't make the top ten and Gertrude Stein is more quoted than Byron. Bet you didn't see that coming." Our own favourite: 14. Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker (Ogden Nash)
• David Tredinnick reads the poems of Michael Dransfield on ABC RN's Poetica. This seam is not yet mined out.
• Pam Brown will be presenting at the trans-Tasman poetry symposium coming up in Auckland, New Zealand at the end of March - short takes on long poems
• Data artist Jer Thorp on Humanized Data at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Design (via Brain Pickings)

HATCHES, DISPATCHES, BEST IN SHOW

• Toby Fitch lists another bunch of upcoming new releases at Southerly
• Poetry International, in collaboration with 3:AM Magazine, showcases young European poets.
• Issue Five of Bare Hands is now online showcasing contemporary poetry & photography from around the world.
• Overland launches Women's Work to fix things up.
• Hypertext writing (2001)
• Les Murray has received the John Bray Poetry Award for Taller When Prone at the Adelaide Festival.

NEW HIRES

• Kate Middleton takes over from Toby Fitch as guest blogger at Southerly
• Rabbit announces Bonny Cassidy and Corey Wakeling join their team as essay editor and reviews editor respectively.
• Over at Cordite Zenobia Frost joins as assistant editor and Corey Wakeling strikes again, this time as interviews editor.

REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, PUNTS

• Rob Wilson reviews David Barnes Prayers waiting for God
• Spineless Wonders interviews Michelle Cahill
• Mark Roberts reviews AU/UA: Contemporary Poetry of Ukraine and Australia in Rochford Street Review
• Paul Kane reviews Rita Dove's Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry in ABR.
• Martin Duwell reviews David McCooey Outside.
• Brian Reed on Les Murray and John Kinsella in the LA Review of Books:

As far as most American poetry readers are concerned, “Down Under” might as well be synonymous with “Out of Sight, Out of Mind.” The most recent edition of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, for example, includes approximately 130 authors from the United States and nearly 50 from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In contrast, Australia, a country with a vibrant, well developed, two-centuries-long tradition of English-language verse, is represented by a mere three names: A. D. Hope, Judith Wright, and Les Murray.

DON'T MISS

• WordinHand with Jade Oldfield, Jane Grimley and Art Rush
  March 6, 2012 from 7:30pm to 11pm – The Friend in Hand Hotel

VALE

• John Knight 1935 – 2012

QUOTE O' WEEK

He was sure that I was mistaken about the very low numbers of copies of his various volumes that we’d sold, but his books just weren’t selling, not even at Gleebooks."

– Pat Woolley responds to Michael Wilding in Rochford Street Review