Sunday Poetry 2012
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Poetry readings at the Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills
Performance
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Featuring guest poets and an open mic.
For enquiries, contact Angela Stretch, coordinator:
mobile 0434 898 578 or email angela.stretch@gmail.com
Fourth Sunday of the month, 2pm
Further dates to be advised
Free
Duration 1 hour
Location: Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills
Image: Brett Whiteley I have swallowed a monstrous dose of poison (detail) © Wendy Whiteley
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Ross Donlon
Sunday 26 February 2pm – 3pm
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Ross Donlon has published poems in newspapers and journals and was winner of the Wenlock Festival Poetry Prize, 2010, within the Arvon International Poetry Competition. He has read at festivals in Australia as well as at the Wenlock Poetry Festival, England. His latest book is The Blue Dressing Gown and other poems. Ross was born in Sydney and now lives in Castlemaine, Victoria where he convenes a popular poetry reading. In 2012 Ross will be artist in residence in Norway and in Ireland at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. He will be guest poet at the Wenlock Poetry Festival in England and the Strokestown Festival, Ireland. www.rossdonlon.com/
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Nora Krouk
Sunday 25 March 2pm – 3pm
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Born 90 years ago in Harbin, China, Norah Krouk has written Russian poetry since childhood, switching to English while living in Hong Kong. Her Russian poetry has been published in various Shanghai magazines, New York’s New Review and Israel’s Yegund Yotseisin, as well as in the anthology Russian Poetry in China, published in Moscow in 2000 (winner of Russian Booker). In 1993 she won the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Jean Stone Award and won first prize for poetry in the 2008 Antipodes Russian Literature Festival.
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Toby Fitch
Sunday 22 April 2pm – 3pm
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London-born Toby Fitch’s chapbook Everyday Static was published by Vagabond Press in 2010. His first full-length book of poems, Rawshock, will be published by Puncher & Wattmann this April. Currently Fitch is undertaking a creative doctorate on Rimbaud, Mallarmé and various poetic tropes, including mistranslation, concrete and absinthe poetry, at Sydney University. He hosts the monthly poetry night at Sappho Books and is the poetry reviews editor for Southerly.
tobyfitch.blogspot.com
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Kate Middleton
Sunday 27 May 2pm – 3pm
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Kate Middleton is Sydney’s first City of Sydney Poet, a 12-month appointment, supported by Arts NSW in partnership with the Centre for New Writing at UTS. During her appointment, Middleton will produce six ‘ekphrastic’ poems responding to iconic artworks by Brett Whiteley, Margaret Olley, Grace Cossington Smith and Martin Sharp. In 2009 Middleton published Fire Season, which was awarded the Western Australian Premier’s Award for Poetry.
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Laura Shore
Sunday 24 June 2pm – 3pm
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Laura Shore’s poetry has featured in literary magazines in the US, Italy, New Zealand and Australia. She won the 2009 FAW John Shaw Nielson Award and the 2006 CJ Dennis ‘Open Poetry’ Literary Award. Her latest book, Water over Stone, won IP Picks Best Poetry 2011. Recently, Shore was awarded a two-month KSP Emerging Writer’s Residency in Western Australia, which commences in August.
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