This post is a creative, experimental mash-up of personal experience plus one of the poems Bernhard Schlink read on Sunday 23 August in RMIT Capitol Theatre, in a session called 'Pleasure and Pain: Poetry and the Body' at Melbourne Writers Festival. The poem is called 'Ballad of the Outer Life' or 'Ballade des auBeren Lebens', and is by … Continue reading Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part five: words like triangles (a further experiment in the confessional)
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Queensland Poetry Festival special: Elizabeth Bachinsky
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. Revisit number one, A.F. Harrold; or number two, Hinemoana Baker, if you like. Enjoy! Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of three collections of poetry, Curio … Continue reading Queensland Poetry Festival special: Elizabeth Bachinsky
Queensland Poetry Festival special: Hinemoana Baker
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. Hinemoana Baker is number two. Revisit number one, A.F. Harrold, if you like. Enjoy! Arts Queensland Poet in Residence 2009 Hinemoana Baker's writings have … Continue reading Queensland Poetry Festival special: Hinemoana Baker
Queensland Poetry Festival special: A.F. Harrold
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. A.F. Harrold is number one. Enjoy! A.F. Harrold is an English poet and performer who does things with words that aren't always normal. Although, … Continue reading Queensland Poetry Festival special: A.F. Harrold
They will give me new parts
part blog-post, part insight into current creative development I ate banana pancakes this morning. I saw an old man on a bike in matching denims and a stackhat. I looked into somebody's eyes. There are nine paper tasks on the floor. They will give me new parts like Frankenstein's monster. A producer this week told … Continue reading They will give me new parts
How to Eat a Wolf by Sharanya Manivannan: a poem
Does all lust start and end like this? Don't get me wrong. I loved my wolf. I held him tethered like a pussycat. I nursed the rumble in his belly with hands gentle as a burglar's. He lived on milk and blood and ocean. He had violets for his furs. It's just that he was … Continue reading How to Eat a Wolf by Sharanya Manivannan: a poem
Voiceworks: Budget
Voiceworks is an Australian journal publishing the work of writers under 25. Budget is the first issue under the editorial of Bel Monypenny does steer a less-showy ship, still understandably finding its path. The issue suits the theme design-wise - being lean, and mean (with a teeny-tiny font that didn't make my eyes too happy), but content-wise the issue is still wealthy. The … Continue reading Voiceworks: Budget
Notes for Somebody in Berlin: a poem by Bel Schenk
1. You are worth keeping like the ticket stub for this museum. You are worth remembering like the catastrophe I am trying to understand. 2. I tell you about my school. Between the green glow of the exit light and the echoing sounds of Oh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum I look for families in the … Continue reading Notes for Somebody in Berlin: a poem by Bel Schenk
South-west. A poem by Geoff Lemon
South-west By Geoff Lemon I'm driving south. Or roughly south I'm sure of that. The car's a Mustang, 60s build rich with that old leather smell. Adam West is in the passenger seat, window halfway down. It's night and warm outside. The air rolls in like oil. Adam West is smoking - Chesterfields. Somehow this … Continue reading South-west. A poem by Geoff Lemon
I'd Like to Introduce You to Two of My Favourite Poets
Sean M Whelan's and Nathan Curnow's poems are very different in both style and theme, but come from much the same place. Nathan captures the poignancy of childhood and the wonderment of parenthood, nostalgia and love in his chapbook No Other Life But This through tiny observations - an arm through a sleeve, a question, a coffee … Continue reading I'd Like to Introduce You to Two of My Favourite Poets
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