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Holly Rose Review

Wednesday, December 02, 2009
...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 7:13 PM

Beth Adams and Dave Bonta of qarrtsiluni

Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Interview for Read Write Poem:
Beth Adams: "We felt it was crucial to run a fair and strictly anonymous contest, and have the winning book be of the highest quality, both in its online and print forms. We also wanted to recognize as many of the top manuscripts as we could, which is why we chose and published a poem from each of the 10 shortlisted chapbooks, with audio and an author bio. The work was stunningly good, I thought — I was often moved to tears while choosing these poems at the end."

posted by Ivy @ 12:33 PM

The Use of Poetry

Monday, November 30, 2009
Ian McEwan writes:
"It was already clear that his own special study would be the physics of light, and he was naturally drawn to the poem of that name, and learned its last dozen lines by heart."

posted by Ivy @ 12:54 PM

Significant Others

Sarah Broughton writes:
"There is a distinguished list of 'significant others' in cultural history – usually wives or lovers or sisters of celebrated writers, artists and musicians who are famous for their proximity to the celebrated person, rather than their own achievements..."

posted by Ivy @ 12:47 PM

Peril

...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 12:39 PM

RIP John West

Sad news about Australian poet John West

Hear his poem, The Admission

Funeral arrangements

posted by Ivy @ 11:26 AM

Monumental: an exquisite corpse

Sunday, November 29, 2009
Broadside #16 features Karen Head and her Plinth Twitter Poetry Project:
Two video clips are included in this broadside as well -- from Time Magazine and the One & Other project.

posted by Ivy @ 9:42 AM

Some Favourite Poetry Collections of 2009: Part Two

Saturday, November 28, 2009
Which poetry books do the poets recommend?

posted by Ivy @ 3:22 PM

Some Favourite Poetry Collections of 2009

Friday, November 27, 2009
What’s your favourite volume of 2009?

posted by Ivy @ 12:59 PM

Police Poetry Calendar

Thursday, November 26, 2009
Welcome to the first calendar of poems and photographs by Portland police officers, detectives, local poets and photographers [USA]:
At the first meeting between the poets and police officers, Lt. Sauschuck said, 'I gotta be honest with you, Marty, if you gave me a choice between writing a poem or fighting four guys at the same time in the street out there, I'd be fighting those four guys right now.' A few seconds later, poet Annie Finch sighed and said in a forlorn tone, 'Me too. Writing poetry is hard.'
[via Stick Poet Super Hero]

posted by Ivy @ 10:52 AM

The Death of Loftiness in Poetry

Robert Peake wrote:
"Imagine reading some of these titles to Whitman, Keats, or Blake, and explaining that these are the titles of books of poems. The sound of their bemused, bewildered, and ultimately uncomfortable laughter is a sound that haunts our age."

posted by Ivy @ 10:36 AM

The Daily Telegraph editor who brought Buddha to life

Saturday, November 21, 2009
...a poet who was considered for Poet Laureate

posted by Ivy @ 12:46 AM

out of the box - is nearly out

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets, edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones"

posted by Ivy @ 4:37 PM

Ouroboros Review

Friday, November 13, 2009
... is fresh

posted by Stu @ 1:27 AM

Distance Voices: Virtual Poetry Festival

Thursday, November 12, 2009
On 14 November, StAnza will stage a brand-new poetry event, a one-day virtual poetry festival, using the latest digital technology to link up poets from around the world.

posted by Ivy @ 11:58 PM

So what if I copied work says Sir Andrew Motion, Shakespeare did all the time

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sir Andrew Motion has been accused of “shameless burglary” by a military historian whose research he lifted and put into a poem about shell-shock for Remembrance Sunday.

And the poem in question...

posted by Ivy @ 9:59 AM

FRiGG

Monday, November 09, 2009
...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 12:47 PM

Pool Poetry

...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 12:38 PM

How Not to Run a Literary Festival

Thursday, November 05, 2009
Amanda Craig writes:
"Firstly, you must pay. It is simply not OK to treat authors as a public service. Authors may seem to have a lovely carefree life, or to be so low-paid that another day of penury simply doesn't matter, but in fact we all work extremely hard and our time is worth something. It may only be £100 or it may be ten times that. But offering only biscuits is an insult. We can get biscuits at home, thanks."

posted by Ivy @ 5:13 PM

Ka mate ka ora

...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 11:08 AM

Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter

Wednesday, November 04, 2009
"Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him under any circumstance to take part in chain-poems..."

posted by Ivy @ 11:20 PM

Rust and Moth

...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 10:28 PM

Campaign to Put the Poem Back in Waterloo Underpass

The poem was commissioned by the Arts Council and the BFI from Sue Hubbard to make the experience of taking the underpass from Waterloo to the Imax Cinema a little less grim.

posted by Ivy @ 3:49 PM

qarrtsiluni's Call

Tuesday, November 03, 2009
"We are interested in creative interpretations of health..."

Deadline: 30 November

posted by Ivy @ 5:17 PM

Cerise Press

Monday, November 02, 2009
...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 2:55 PM

Who will win the first ever Australian Poetry Blog Battle?

Sunday, November 01, 2009
Curnow vs Motion.

posted by Ivy @ 3:47 PM

The History of a Manuscript

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
"If you're keeping track that makes 64 presses (contests and open submissions) I submitted to."

posted by Ivy @ 7:19 PM

Divan

... is fresh

posted by Stu @ 6:55 AM

Verse broadens the mind, scientists find

Richard Gray:
If literature is food for the mind, then a poem is a banquet, according to research by Scottish scientists which shows poetry is better for the brain than prose.

[via amy king's alias]

posted by Stu @ 2:30 AM

Some Rights Reserved: Poets and the Creative Commons Revolution

Monday, October 26, 2009
Travis King writes:
So, what does this mean for us poets? Poetry rarely pays well, and most poets remain obscure throughout their lives and even after death. As Doctorow and other advocates say, the danger for authors lies not in "piracy" but in obscurity. But with the use of a Creative Commons license, it becomes easier to distribute one's works.

posted by Ivy @ 1:26 PM

The Poetry of Birds, edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee

Sunday, October 25, 2009
The book contains almost 300 pages of poems on birds ranging from the ubiquitous sparrow to the fantastical phoenix.

posted by Ivy @ 1:54 PM

poetry & ideas

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Kris Hemensley:
"Another day, another poem. I turn the page of the three-year Alhambra Poetry Calendar (selected by Shafiq Naz, Belgium; see www.alhambrapublishing.com) which Paul Kane introduced us to a couple of years ago. It's the 21st September, 2009. In 2008 it fell on a Sunday, this year it's Monday. Page 342's poem is (surprise --genuine surprise) : Coventry Patmore's To The Body. At last! I think aloud, --A POEM!

posted by Ivy @ 8:33 PM

A Pair of Ragged Claws

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
"...we are dealing with an elite art form: not everyone can either do it or enjoy it."

[via Currajah]

posted by Ivy @ 12:29 PM

f a i l b e t t e r

Friday, October 16, 2009
...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 12:37 PM

Sticky Tape Poem

Thursday, October 15, 2009


"The whole idea is to get poetry out there and what better way to spread the word than to send it out on packages."

posted by Ivy @ 4:39 PM

Fairy-Tale Book Repository

"We seek to collect as many fairy-tale books as possible, books known and unknown, for children or for adults, from around the world..."

posted by Ivy @ 12:49 PM

14 by 14

...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 1:37 AM

Why do poets write? (Not for ambition or bread)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Penelope Shuttle:
The trouble with this poem is that it is too well-known for its own good. I'm trying, without much success, to remember the first time I read it. It seems always to have been among the poetry furniture in my head, and so I can't really ever recapture the first electrifying effect of my first encounter with it. But electrifying it was, that I recall, and it is good now to have the challenge of re-assessing this over-familiar poem and experience it as the new.

posted by Ivy @ 5:33 PM

BBC - Poetry Season

Patrick Neate:
"Tell someone you're a poet and their reaction will rarely be a brisk nod and an even 'right you are then'. More likely they will suddenly regard you in one of two ways - either with undeserved and inappropriate wonder or, more often, with equivalent and barely-concealed contempt. In the latter instance, their reaction seems to say: 'A poet? What's the point of that?'"

posted by Ivy @ 1:00 PM

questions, questions, questions - lyrically speaking

The new Aussie lyric poetry

posted by Ivy @ 11:10 AM

For Nina Sankovitch, a Book a Day, Every Day

Monday, October 12, 2009
But perhaps what stands out most is that, at a time when reading books can feel like a pre-Internet anachronism, she did it mostly because, well, she wanted to.

posted by Ivy @ 6:01 PM

Should We Ban Poets’ Biographies from Poetry Magazines?

Roberta James:
"A biography which gives more than name and past works is at fault because it inevitably influences the reading of a poem."

posted by Ivy @ 2:18 PM

Sea Things

posted by Ivy @ 12:19 PM

Autumn Sky Poetry

Sunday, October 11, 2009
...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 7:29 PM

1000 Verse Renga, the world’s longest poem ever!

Friday, October 09, 2009
Everyone is invited.

posted by Ivy @ 11:20 AM

StAnza 2010 Participants and Two Readings

How fast will the Heaney tickets sell?

posted by Ivy @ 11:18 AM

Currently, there’s a re-emergence of the lyric as a central form in Australian poetry, lead by several young, mostly women graduates and students...

... of creative writing courses. Is this trend a reaction against the innovations of postmodernism and the resultant north American, but globally influential, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement that had its heyday over 20 years ago?

posted by Ivy @ 11:14 AM

Poet Don Paterson wins £10,000 prize

And Emma Jones has become the first Australian to win the debut prize for her work, The Striped World.

posted by Ivy @ 11:09 AM

Standing up for pure poetry

Poetry is becoming very fashionable – in all its forms.

posted by Ivy @ 10:58 AM

Aldeburgh First Collection Prize shortlist

Thursday, October 08, 2009
And the nominees are...

posted by Ivy @ 12:26 PM

Great Irish Book Week

Great Irish Books

posted by Ivy @ 10:52 AM

Author Tess Gallagher: Cancer gave me courage

Wednesday, October 07, 2009
The bout with cancer, which is now in remission, gave her the courage to care for her terminally ill mother, buy her dream cottage in Ireland and take on a publishing giant.

posted by Ivy @ 8:06 PM

Unveiling of Centenary Knitted Poem

...at the British Library Piazza at 11am on Wednesday 7th October.



Dylan Thomas's 'In My Craft or Sullen Art' was the poem chosen for the Poetry Society's Knit a Poem project.

posted by Ivy @ 7:45 PM

Poetry Marathon, Saturday and Sunday 17–18 October

Poetry Marathon is a two-day poetry event featuring performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians.

posted by Ivy @ 7:00 PM

Christian Bök's EUNOIA

The UPGRADED EDITION

posted by Ivy @ 6:54 PM

To Let You Pass

Christian Wiman:
"It is now six months since Craig Arnold died — or vanished, as most notices have termed it."

posted by Ivy @ 2:25 PM

THE NEW TORONTO POET LAUREATE IS DIONNE BRAND!

"We at The Toronto Quarterly would like to congratulate Dionne Brand on being named the new Poet Laureate for the city of Toronto."

posted by Ivy @ 12:15 AM

TRICKHOUSE

Tuesday, October 06, 2009
...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 10:02 PM

A list of small presses that publish poetry books outside of contests

Please support these presses by buying their poetry books [US]

posted by Ivy @ 4:23 PM

The poetry at the heart of cinema

The past decade has seen biopics of Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas and now John Keats, but film's reliance on poetry goes beyond simply retelling poets' life stories

posted by Ivy @ 1:00 PM

Britain needs a black poet laureate

Monday, October 05, 2009
Peter Beech:
"Black and minority ethnic poets don't always behave in the expected way for poets; that is, they don't always sit down and write in standard English about Greek myths. Perhaps that's why they struggle to get into print. In 2004, writer-critic Bernardine Evaristo discovered that fewer than 1% of those published by mainstream poetry presses were non-white."

posted by Ivy @ 8:34 PM

Tea Tasters Wanted

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
"A Cup of Fine Tea" has a new home. Tea tasters for this new critique column wanted.

posted by Ivy @ 1:38 PM

qarrtsiluni

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
...is (always) fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 6:51 PM

one-eighth vulture

Friday, September 11, 2009
...is fresh.

posted by Ivy @ 8:53 AM

Seven Kitchens Press reprints Christina Pacosz's Notes from the Red Zone

Tuesday, September 08, 2009
David Chorlton notes in his letter of nomination...:
'The passage of twenty-five years has not diminished the relevance of [these] poems. As I have followed Christina Pacosz's work, I have been impressed by her vision of the world, beset as it is by the problems she addresses. If poetry is to be returned to circulation after a time in the dark, let it be the poetry that exposes recurring concerns and shows determination to deal with them.'

posted by Ivy @ 3:59 PM

The Country Dog Review

...is fresh.

posted by The Storialist @ 2:37 AM

Bryan Thao Worra's "Zelkova Tree"

Saturday, August 29, 2009
Tammy Ho Lai-ming:
"I vividly remember reading "Zelkova Tree", the very first poem we published in Cha, for the first time. It triggered my memory of reading Ovid’s Metamorphosis. In Book IX of that book, the nymph Dryope unknowingly plucks a flower of the lotus tree, which is actually another nymph (Lotis). Because of this crime, Dryope is turned into a black poplar. Before the transformation runs its full course, however, she has enough time to utter a message for her son, warning him to be cautious: ‘let him fear the pool, pluck no blossoms from the trees, and think all flowers are goddesses in disguise!’ (Ovid’s Metamorphosis Book IX, 380-81). Apart from pointing out the changeability of all life forms, one can also say Metamorphosis is highly eco-conscious. All these plants and animals are incarnations of others; you are imprudent to poke, pluck and part them, for you cannot be sure what they really are: they may be someone you know!"

posted by Ivy @ 6:28 PM

Erykah Badu on Def Jam Poetry

Friday, August 28, 2009

posted by Ivy @ 10:55 AM

Profile: Wendy Cope

Thursday, August 27, 2009
Were you at all conscious in the early stages of your career that poetry was an overly male world and, if so, how did you manage to get around that? Does it matter that we now have our first woman Laureate?:
Wendy Cope: Yes to the first question. Writing parodies of male poets was one way that I rebelled against male ideas about how we should write. The first poems of mine that got published were literary jokes that made male poets laugh. Some of them probably think those were the only good poems I ever wrote. I don’t think the gender of the Poet Laureate is important. I don’t think the Laureateship is important. I am on record as saying that I would be happy to see it abolished.

posted by Ivy @ 2:51 PM

Call for submissions on 'Longing'

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Kurungabaa: a journal of literature, history and ideas for surfers

[Wow, I don't think I've encountered a literary journal with a surfing theme before. That's new. —Ivy]

posted by Ivy @ 7:16 PM