Pushing at Silence by Andrew Burke
$16.available from selected Bookstores and Mail Order from: Folio (Salt) PO Box 202 Applecross 6153 Western Australia (Please make cheques/money orders payable to the publisher, FOLIO (SALT) and allow 21 days for delivery within Australia.)
Or WHISPERING GALLERY by Andrew Burke by Sunline Press.
‘The Roof Milkers’ by Annamaria Weldon
Her forthcoming collection, to be published by Sunline Press in June (2008), spans three decades of poems and two homelands and will be launched at Poets Corner 19th July 2008.
'Flash Company – Poems and fictions’ by Murray Jennings
Rrp: $19.00 available from: LANE BOOKS, Claremont, MILLPOINT CAFÉ BOOKSHOP, South Perth, and PLANET BOOKS, Mt Lawley OR from Murray Jennings P.O. Box 460 COMO W.A. 6152 Price $21.00 posted
'Book of Days' by Deanne Leber
Shortlisted for the 2006 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards.
An autobiographical journey into the ways we remember. It is emotionally violent, humorous and playful. It traces lines of narrative which have been disrupted by madness.
Available from http://www.angelfire.com/de/dustdream/
Contact Frances for further details.
OUR INVITED GUESTS:
Andrew Burke is an Australian poet who has lived most of his life on the west coast in Perth. Born in Melbourne in 1944, Burke's family moved west to expand the family business eighteen months later. In his teens, Burke read Kerouac and Ginsberg and other 'Beat' writers, and they gained his interest more than the Hardy and company he was studying at school. He started to ape their style in all he wrote, and published his first short story at 18. He has written on a daily basis ever since - stories, plays, poems, and - to feed wife and children - ads and videos, annual reports and press releases. Since 1990, Burke has taught creative writing and allied subjects at universities and schools all over Western Australia, read and compared readings from Singapore to Wagga Wagga. Multi-published, multi-talented and multi-voiced, his HI SPIRTS blog is a most worthy read.
Annamaria Weldon has been a guest reader at [Poet's Corner], Voicebox, WoW, Scots and at OOTA events. Her forthcoming collection, “The Roof Milkers” to be published by Sunline Press in June (2008), spans three decades of poems and two homelands. After a childhood in North Africa, London and Guatemala, completing her education back in Malta and working there as a journalist, editor and emerging poet, she came to WA in 1984 and joined the West Australian newspaper. Her credits since include writing for the The Australia Council, publishing poems and short fiction in anthologies (OOTA’s November Light- 1999 and Tidelines- 2000; ) and journals (including Yellow Moon, Five Bells and Indigo Vols. 1 & 2) and winning both First and Second places in the 2007 Ena Taylor Poetry Award (Peter Cowan Writers Centre) 2007.
With her mentor Kevin Gillam at FAWWAs 2007 Poetry Masterclass, she developed her manuscript “The Roof Milkers” which will be featured at Poets Corner 19th July 2008.
Murray Jennings has worked at a range of jobs including storeman, postman, clerk, salesman and editor's assistant. He has also been involve in radio broadcasting for many years. He worked as an ABC announcer in Perth and the Kimberleys and later became the Head of the Broadcasting Department of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. Jennings' poems and short stories have been published in a number of journals and anthologies around Australia and his radio plays have been broadcast on ABC Radio. After retiring from 11 years of teaching at WAAPA, Murray intends to explore his other talents. “I’m going to focus on writing for both print and radio, and also concentrate on painting and sculpturing,” he says.
He’ll be reading from his book: “Flash company : poems and fictions / Murray Jennings.” Stone's Publishing, 2007.
Deanne Leber ~ A past host of Poets Corner, we welcome Deanne back as an invited reader. Born in Western Australia, she has had her work published in various journals, magazines and newspapers and is currently completing her PhD in Writing at Edith Cowan University.
Deanne’s first collection of poems, “Book of Days”, is an autobiographical journey into the ways we remember. It is emotionally violent, humorous and playful. It traces lines of narrative, which have been disrupted by madness.
OPEN MIC - as usual
Contact Frances if you'd like to read.
Fellowship of Australian Writers WA invites you to the launch of Lines in the sand new writing from Western Australia
to be launched by Grant Stone Scholarly Resources Librarian, Murdoch University
6.30pm, Thursday 29th May 2008
Centre for the Book, Alexander Library, Perth.
Please RSVP by 20th May 2008 to (08) 9384 4771 or admin@fawwa.org.au
(from the reverse of the invitation)
LINES IN THE SAND '...a vivid and compelling selection...' John Kinsella
A collection of poetry and prose by established and emereging West Australian writers.
Edited by Julienne van Loon and Glen Phillips.
The anthology celebrates 70 years of the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA. See the display in the Centre for the Book for highlights of FAWWA history 1938 - 2008.
If you are unable to attend the launch, order your copy directly from the FAWWA ($29.95 ea) admin@fawwa.org.au or (08) 9384 4771
South Perth POETRY PARK LAUNCH: (quoted from the invitation)
Mayor & Councillors of the City of South Perth warmly invite you to the opening of the South Perth Poetry Park at 5.30pm, Thursday 15th May 2008 at Neil McDougall Park, South Perth.
The Poetry Park will be opened by the Hon. Sheila McHale MLA, Minister for Disability Services, Tourism, Culture & the Arts.
Light refreshments will be served. RSVP essential on 9474 0800 or library@southperth.wa.gov.au
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The Poetry Park, I'm told was instigated by Ken Spillman ~ a wonderful initiative. For your information I've copied the press release which appears on this page:
http://nac.gov.sg/new/new02a.asp?id=348
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Singapore Poets Invited to Launch Poetry Park in Australia 08 May
2008
A Poetry Park will be launched at the Neil McDougall Park in South
Perth, Australia to celebrate the outstanding work and achievements
of Western Australia's poets. The opening also marks the launch of
Over There: Poems from Singapore & Australia, an anthology of
Singaporean and Australian poets, edited by Alvin Pang and John
Kinsella.
The event to be held on Thursday, 15 May 2008 will be officiated by
the Honourable Sheila McHale MLA, Australian Minister for Disability
Services, Tourism, Culture & the Arts.
The Singapore contingent for the launch led by Lee Suan Hiang, Chief
Executive Officer, National Arts Council, will comprise Meritorious
Service Medal recipient, Professor Edwin Thumboo, distinguished poet and literary scholar, Professor Kirpal Singh, as well as acclaimed
Singapore poets, Alvin Pang and Ng Yi-Sheng, and publisher Ethos
Books for Over There, Fong Hoe Fang.
Says Lee, "Singapore's participation in such a major launch offers a
great opportunity for us to promote Singaporean literature and our
writers in Australia in a big way. Considering the large Australian
market for literature in English, it's indeed a milestone for us and
we look forward to more collaborative functions and programmes
between both countries in the future."
First of its kind in Australia, the innovative project was conceived
and coordinated by one of Western Australia's most prolific writers,
Ken Spillman. Says Spillman, "Western Australian writers have long
thought of themselves as isolated. That may be true in relation to
our east coast, but we are realising that proximity to the vibrant
artistic culture of Singapore is much more interesting than
connections with Sydney and Melbourne."
Spillman also feels that the attendance of prominent Singapore poets
at the launch will give the project an international dimension and
will strengthen ties between the literatures of Western Australia
and Singapore. "Alvin Pang's work with John Kinsella, one of
Australia's most celebrated poets, points the way forward. It's
clear that Singapore literature has entered an exciting phase, and
that we can learn a great deal from each other. We can inspire each
other, too - that's the greatest aspect of it all," he adds.
Over There is published under the NAC 50Fifty Co-publishing
Initiative for publishers. Says Fong, "We are very excited about the
level of collaboration and quality work that is coming out of our
engagement with the Australian literary world. We hope this will be
the genesis of what promises to be a brave new world of literary
bridges and sharing that will enhance relationships with our
neighbours far south."
About NAC 50Fifty Co-publishing Initiative
The 50Fifty Co-publishing Initiative is a step towards developing a
greater pool of Singapore literature and an investment in the
development of Singapore's literary publishing industry. The
initiative identifies works that are well-written, distinctive and
with a potential to generate domestic and international interest.
Books published under the initiative include The Lies That Build a
Marriage by Suchen Christine Lim (Monsoon Books), One Earth by Isa
Kamari (Original title in Malay - Satu Bumi) (Ethos Books), as well
as Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia, edited by Alvin
Pang and John Kinsella (Ethos Books).
About the Poetry Park Project
The first phase of the Poetry Park project involves the installation
of panels displaying the work of 12 of WA's most highly-acclaimed
poets, as well as a "Poets Walk of Honour" featuring plaques bearing
the names of poetry winners of the WA Premier's Book Award. Poets
represented on the panels are John Kinsella, Philip Salom, Fay
Zwicky, Andrew Lansdown, Tracy Ryan, Rod Moran, Dennis Haskell,
Andrew Taylor, Alec Choate, Miriam Lo, Barbara Temperton and Roland
Leach.
Subsequent developments of the park include poetry readings as part
of the community events, poetry festivals and the incorporation of
poetry into public art. The Poetry Park project is funded by the
City of South Perth with the assistance of a Lotterywest grant and
has the support of the State Library of Western Australia, WritingWA
and the South Perth Historical Society.
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