Southerly 69.3 2010 Launched

Southerly 69.2 - My poem Ferris Wheel - published in this issue!

 













Southerly invites you to the launch of 69.3, the Poetry Special Issue. This volume continues Southerly’s tradition of publishing and promoting the best in Australian literature, and with this launch, we wish to celebrate this issue's focus on poetry and poetics.
Venue: University of Sydney,
Address: Common Room, John Woolley Building
Time: from 6 - 8pm
Date: Thursday March 25th.

A poem of mine, Ferris Wheel was recently published Southerly 69.2, so I don't mind promoting this wonderful Poetry & Poetics issue. I found out, you can't buy the magazine in WA! Click on to Southerly 69.2 here at Southerly Magazine

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Judging Panel ASAL, 2010 on Evangelyne & other poems

Helen Hagemann's book [Evangelyne] looks the size of a chapbook but is actually quite substantial. Every line is packed with content, in coastal poems of memory and nostalgia that are celebratory, sometimes elegiac, and often both simultaneously. The poems have a wide range of reference even while maintaining a consistency of subject matter. No words are wasted and this with rich imagery creates an emotional intensity, but an intensity that does not preclude humour. The shortlisted poets include Emma Jones, Emily Ballou, Sarah Holland-Batt and Joanna Preston.  

Although my book didn't make it, it made it into The Australian Newspaper. Check article by Rosemary Sorensen, 13th March 2010

Congratulations! now to Joanna Preston for The Summer King winner of the Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize 2009 - (9/7/10)

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