Sunday, March 24, 2013


 Monday Poetry with Helen Hagemann continues at the Grove on Monday 25th March. This workshop “Writing Love Poems” will help poets towards the upcoming anthology, Australian Love Poems 2013 by Inkerman & Blunt. Poets cited: Charles Olson, Pablo Neruda, John Tranter, Chris Mansell, Eric Beach, Dorothy Porter, and more. 1.00pm start. Coffee and chat in the Grove's Coffee Shop after class. All welcome!
Venue: The Grove Library, 1 Leake Street, Cottesloe. (Cnr Napolean St) & close to Cottesloe train station.
Date: Monday 25th March
Time: 1-3.00pm
Cost: OOTA $15.00, Non-OOTA $20.00

Australian Love Poems 2013
The Perfume of Flowers
               by Charles Olson



The perfume
of flowers! A haw

drops such odour
it stops me

in the wall
of its fall. Love

arrests

Lime-trees

saturate

the night. We walk
in it

On a path jonquils
fill

the air. Love
is a scent.
 

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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

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