Other blogs we like
Read all the recent posts here on one page, from these great Tasmanian literary blogs! Currajah, a blog of literary news, and Skirting the Periphery, a blog on the literature of island communities - by Tasmanian publisher Ralph Wessman; North of the latte line literary blog - by Tasmanian poet Anne Kellas; and Paige Loves Books blog - by Tasmanian radio presenter Paige Turner.
Recent Posts
Apologies to followers for the messed up line breaks in my post about line breaks! The actual blog now has the correct version of the poem For Z. (I am an old HTML hack and had formatted the post with code that Blogger did not accept, messing up my formatting :)
The written poem: Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English by Rosemary Huisman uses a poem of mine, "For Z, under house arrest in Johannesburg 1988" to exemplify "graphic iconicity" and now I think I know what that might mean through an error I made when including the poem a decade...
The Sun Fish by Irish poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has a special place in my study.
A gift from my Queensland poet friend Pam Schindler, it's a book I return to again and again. In reading her work, I feel as if I have held in my hands some rare and marvellous thing. I don't get that feeling very often. It's perfect poem-stuff.
Matthew...
A gift from my Queensland poet friend Pam Schindler, it's a book I return to again and again. In reading her work, I feel as if I have held in my hands some rare and marvellous thing. I don't get that feeling very often. It's perfect poem-stuff.
Matthew...
Congratulations to Karen Knight for her entry in Villanelles ( Everyman Library Pocket Poets series)
Hearty congratulations to Karen Knight: a villanelle from her collection, Postcards from the Asylum, has been included in a collection of villanelles edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali, due to be published by Random House in the prestigious Everyman Library Pocket Poets series in March 2012.
Postcards from the Asylum's publisher Lyn Reeves of...
Postcards from the Asylum's publisher Lyn Reeves of...
I really thought I had posted a piece about Paul Celan here, but apparently not. In attempting to rewrite what I thought I had written I have come across far better appraisals of his work than I could ever hope to write: so here they are:
Translating Paul Celan from Poetry International
How can one...
Translating Paul Celan from Poetry International
How can one...
I have decided to add a Google adsense feature to this blog. However it seems I have attracted the strangest of adverts. I hope this won't put readers off.
Last night I finished reading Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther. It had been on my bedside reading table for ages. Well, it was just as heavy as I had anticipated it would be.
It's interesting that, as his literary career progressed, Goethe had distanced himself from the Sorrows of Young Werther, and that towards the end of his life, he was saddened to find...
It's interesting that, as his literary career progressed, Goethe had distanced himself from the Sorrows of Young Werther, and that towards the end of his life, he was saddened to find...
I won't be at the cafe on Wednesday 22nd February after all ....
It is quite amazing how much work I am getting done being a cafe poet. It just shows how putting in some dedicated time yields good fruit.
I am also enjoying the poetry conversations that the program enables, and hope there will be more of them.
From my conversations with people, it seems time is the...
It is quite amazing how much work I am getting done being a cafe poet. It just shows how putting in some dedicated time yields good fruit.
I am also enjoying the poetry conversations that the program enables, and hope there will be more of them.
From my conversations with people, it seems time is the...
I'll be at the cafe from 10.30 on Wednesday 22nd February for a couple of hours. It is quite amazing how much work I am getting done, but I also welcome "interruptions" – I am enjoying the poetry conversations that the program enables. I only wish I had hundreds of dollars to spend on the books around me ... but then I would need hundreds more hours each week to get any reading done!
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