VIS-PO

You know how we love a little vis-po here at syd-po... Well Claire Potter has diagrammed Matthew Hall’s ‘Dawn Falsely Observed’.

WRITERS HOUSES ILLUSTRATED

Via Brainpickings – why stop at drawing up poems?

Any Australian addition to this collection would of course include the red-brick block on the corner of Chelmsford and Lennox Streets Newtown where John Forbes once resided.

HATCHES, DISPATCHES, BEST-IN-SHOW

Video: A few words fom John Knight, John Foulcher and Jean Kent at the launch party for new imprint Pitt St Poetry

• David Prater farewells Cordite and Cordite welcomes Kent MacCarter
• Stephen Edgar and Fiona Britton win the Dorothy Porter Prize
• Liz Allen's Body Language was launched at Gleebooks.
• Southerly launched 'A Handful of Sand' edited by Lionel Fogarty and Ali Cobby Eckerman.
• Ken Setter's Poems from the Factory is available from Amazon.

DON'T MISS

Kate Middleton, Kit Brookman, Tricia Dearborn, Carol Jenkins, Vivian Smith and Alan Wearne reading at the Poets' Picnic tomorrow (Tuesday) night.

QUOTE O' WEEK

"Language is not the dress but the incarnation of thought."
— William Wordsworth

Via Kate Middleton (In the photo above Middleton and Wordsworth enjoy a sandwich by the Duck Pond in Centennial Park).