Love Poetry 2012. Valentine’s Night at the Japanese Gardens

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Posted on January 16, 2012 by WA Poets

Join us on Tuesday 14 February 2012 for a celebration of love. Whether it is love lost or gained, quietly lived, or shared passion, this event expresses love through the words of Perth’s best poets and wordsmiths. Bring your favourite picnic and join us in the quiet setting of a Japanese garden at the Perth Zoo to listen to love lyrics and music under moonlight.

'Waiting for Love' by Beba Hall

Live performances by

Dennis Haskell, Lucy Dougan, Andrew Burke, Kevin Gillam, Vivienne Glance, Amanda Joy, Danny Gunzburg, Jaya Penelope, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Veronica Lake and Chris Arnold

MC Karen Tighe

The program also includes the launch of ‘Love Poetry 2012’, a dedicated publication for this occasion by Mulla Mulla Press with contributions from the performing poets and many more. Listen to Mags Webster’s Woman/Rain, one of the poems selected for publication in ‘Love Poetry 2012′.

Tickets $25/$20 (Standard / Conc & WAPI members).

Times: Tuesday 14 February 2012 from 7-10 pm. Doors open 6 pm.

Venue: Japanese Gardens, Perth Zoo, South Perth (enter through Gate 3, not main entrance).

BYO or pre-order picnic before 8 February 2012 with Hamper Valentines Poetry Event 2012 form.

This event is supported by The Small Room and Mulla Mulla Press, and co-ordinated by Tineke Van der Eecken.

Pay by bank Transfer

Bank:	Bendigo Bank
A/C Name:	WA POETS INC
BSB:	633-000
A/C Number:	128245552

Please include your name in the reference and valentine in the subject, and email the WA Poets Inc treasurer, Gary de Piazzi and let him know how much you deposited and on what date. This is very important for our record keeping.

Strictly Hypothetical

Posted on January 23, 2012 by WA Poets

Strictly Hypothetical has an exciting new show planned for Fringe World Perth!

Whether or not you can join us, please consider forwarding this e-mail to anyone who may be interested!

Fair Game: In a Sportopian Future who needs Art?

6pm, Fri 10 Feb: only $15!

You think Perth is a cultural wasteland now, wait ‘til you see it in 2025!

It’s the post-obesity WA of the future and public health
has never looked so good.

In a society of football, fitness and fanatics, art is dead and sport has long since assumed its proper place: Centre Stage.

But can a bus load of cultural refugees from Melbourne change this brave new world before the curtain falls on the Perth art’s scene forever?

Inspired by Geoffrey Robinson, Strictly Hypothetical explores fictional scenarios based on real world issues, for a truly different night out.

Because conversation is the greatest adventure sport!

Think ABC’s ‘Q and A’ meets new hit “Can of Worms” only live – where you get to ask questions and ultimately determine the outcome.

· Friday February 10th 6pm – 7:15pm

· Fringeworld Treasury Cabaret, Perth, Corner St Georges Tce & Barrack St

· Tickets: $15 online $20 at the door

· Bookings Essential: http://www.strictlyhypothetical.com

Hope to see you there!

Poets – the world’s two best wine regions come together

Posted on January 23, 2012 by WA Poets

Would you like to read your poetry in Midland AND the Margaret River region?

We’re planning a satellite event to the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival which runs from 29 April to 6 May.

The plan is to have an informal gathering in MJAC for local poets on Sunday April 1^st, with an open mic for anyone willing to read original work. The Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival team have invited us to read at the Special Poetry Dinner on Thursday 3^rd May at the Cowaramup Club… ROAD TRIP!

We are sourcing billets and fuel money to bring poets from the Swan Valley / Eastern Hills region to Margaret River. Negotiations, research and much sweet talking is underway, if you’d like to be involved or have any ideas please get in touch with Sarah Ryan (details below).

http://www.artsmargaretriver.com

Melbourne literary journal looking for submissions

Posted on January 23, 2012 by WA Poets

Dear Writers,

There is a new literary journal in Melbourne, and we want YOU! We’re pretty sure that there are deep pools of wondrous talent welling within writers’ groups, so we’re coming straight to the source (oh, the imagery!).

VIM Journal is all about counteracting bad news – we want to hear stories of hope, wackiness, enthusiasm, wonder; anything that makes you smile, or think about the world in a fresh way, or sing a bit, or dance a jig.

We have put out a call for submissions for the inaugural edition, and we would love for you to send in your writing. See the attached press release for more information, and visit our website for submission guidelines and other bits and pieces: vimjournal.com. For updates on the journal, as well as whimsical observations of the world and its oddities (we hope), follow us on twitter and like us on facebook (details below). Submissions close 3 March 2012.

We can’t wait to see what you’ve got in store for us, so send it on through.

Good day to you!

Cheers,
The VIM team

The 2012 Castaways Poetry Prize

Posted on January 21, 2012 by WA Poets

The City of Rockingham is pleased to announce

The 2012 Castaways Poetry Prize

Almost $500 in prizes

Submissions are open from now until 13^th March 2012

To enter:

Visit the Castaways Web Gallery at http://rockingham.wa.gov.au/Leisure-and-recreation/Art-and-craft/Castaways/Castaways-Gallery.aspx and view the 32 images of art entries from previous exhibitions. All entered poems must be inspired by, drawn upon, or use the theme of, images in the Castaways Web gallery.

Send a maximum of 3 poems, attached to an email in rtf or doc format, to castaways@rockingham.wa.gov.au with “POETRY SUBMISSION: Your Title” as the subject line.

The body of your email must include your name, address, phone/mobile number, email address, and the title & line counts of your poems. To ensure anonymity, do not include your details on your entered poems themselves.

Do not post entries. Only entries received via email will be accepted.

Each poem must be no longer than 24 lines.

Poems must be original, unpublished, not have received an award in another competition, and not be under consideration elsewhere from the time of entry in the awards until the official announcement of the winners.

Winners able to attend will be invited to read their poem at the Castaways 2012 Opening Night Awards presentation on Saturday 12 May 2012.

Employees of the City of Rockingham and their family members are ineligible to enter.

The judges’ decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into. Any attempt to lobby judges or City of Rockingham employees, or influence decisions, may result in disqualification.

Entries close 13March 2012, and winners will be contacted by phone or email prior to the public announcement at the Castaways 2012 Awards night presentation.

The 1st prize winning entry will be published in the Castaways 2012 catalogue.

1^st PRIZE: $250 + 2 copies of the Castaways 2012 catalogue

2 COMMENDED PRIZES: $100

For further information contact Lee Battersby, Community Development Officer (Culture & Arts) on 9528 0386 or lee.battersby@rockingham.wa.gov.au

Castaways Sculpture Awards is an annual arts event which has added to Rockingham’s unique cultural identity since 2008, successfully melding the theme of recycling and environmental awareness with the creative re-use of materials and innovative arts practice. Every May, nearly 50 stunning sculptures grace the beautiful Rockingham foreshore, creating opportunities for young and emerging artists to showcase their artworks alongside established professional Western Australian Artists, under the professional curatorship of Lyn DiCiero, arts writer, art judge and editor/owner of art journal the Artist’s Chronicle.

Jukebox: Day Six of the dotdotdash Subscribathon

Posted on December 9, 2011 by WA Poets

Do you love reading dotdotdash? Did you listen to that bonus CD in Issue Six: Jukebox on repeat? Do you love listening to performance poetry? Then you should definitely come down to the Fringe Gallery on Friday the 16th of December to help WA Poets Inc celebrate day six of the dotdotdash subscribathon! Held over eight days and nights, each event will be themed after a dotdotdash issue.

WA Poets Inc are very enthusiastic to have collaborated with The dotdotdash Collective to give you an amazing night of symbiotic musico-poetry performances at the Fringe gallery.

What: Day Six of the dotdotdash subscribathon: Jukebox
When: Friday the 16th of December at 7:30pm
Where: The Fringe Gallery, 94 Bawdan Street, Willagee

There will be turntables, so bring along your favourite record, if you’re game enough to share it with the crowd.

MC Naked Blind will introduce our special guests for the evening who will blow your minds away with epic poetry performances. These include:

Liana Christensen
Amanda Joy
Mar Bucknell
Kaitlyn Plyley
Vivienne Glance
Flora Smith

There will be a small coverage charge of $5. We hope to see you there!

Find this event on Facebook

To find out more about the dotdotdash subscribathon check out their website or their subscribathon event page on Facebook

Trivia: A traditional Jamaican Sound System always has a selector, an MC and a DJ. If people bring records, I guess that makes the audience the selector.

Subscribeathon is brought to you by the following fine businesses and writing organisations:
The Department of Culture and the Arts
OOTA writers
Fremantle Press
UWA Publishing
Twelfth Planet Press
Underground Writers
WA Poets Inc
OnWilliam
Love is my velocity
SPUNC
WritingWA
The Fellowship of Australia Writers WA
KSP Writers’ Centre
The Blue Room Theatre

30/09/2011

Posted on September 30, 2011 by WA Poets

Haiku – One Moment Please
8 Week Course
with Maureen Sexton

This course will examine the following:
What is haiku?
What is the essence of haiku?
Where did haiku come from?
Why write haiku?
How to write haiku?
What is haiga? How haiku fits with images and drawings/paintings.
Is haiku good for your health? A haiku a day keeps the doctor away?

The following quote from Marcel Duchamp, is especially relevant to haiku:
‘It is not what you see that is art, art is the gap.’
When: Every Wednesday from 19th October to 7th December, 12.30 to 3 pm.
Where: The Art House, 63 Railway Avenue, Kelmscott (walking distance from Kelmscott train station)
Cost of the full course: Full $200, Concession $160. Open to negotiation under certain circumstances. Email or phone Maureen to book your place: maureenjsexton@gmail.com or 0435 024 616. Places are limited, so book early!
Bring your lunch if you would like to.
Maureen is the WA Representative of HaikuOz (The Australian Haiku Society) and runs the Mari Warabiny Haiku Group in WA.

Mari Warabiny Haiku Group
Invites you to join us on a ginko (haiku walk)

Where: Araluen Botanic Park
When: Saturday 29th October, 10.30 am

We will meet under the M. Simons Memorial Pergola. If you would like to meet beforehand, or if you need to be picked up from Kelmscott train station, please contact Maureen Sexton to make arrangements: maureenjsexton@gmail.com or 0435 024 616.

What is a ginko?
“A ginko is a haiku walk through a chosen location where poets write, discuss, revise, workshop, read, laugh, breathe and listen to haiku.” Myron Lysenko

What happens in a ginko?
We gather and have a little talk about haiku and what we’re doing. We head out separately or in small groups to go for a walk and make notes on things we observe along the way, sometimes whole haiku come out at that stage. We gather back together and share our notes, spend some time writing up our ideas into haiku. We share our haiku and offer ideas or feedback. This could be done over a picnic lunch.

Hear here

Posted on August 17, 2011 by WA Poets

ACR reading poems from the dead including the late Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mary Gilmore, Philip Larkin, Mina Loy, Louis MacNiece and other voices pressed in books from New Edition, Fremantle. At present, this event is scheduled for Saturday 27^th August, from 12—2pm; but please check here for up-to-date details.

16/08/2011

Posted on August 16, 2011 by WA Poets

Festival Programme Correction

For anyone with a 2011 festival programme, please note that Cottonmouth is now held on the first Tuesday of every month, rather than Thursday. We will update our online programmes to reflect the new date. For all the latest Cottonmouth news, please see the Cottonmouth website.

Book Launch—Southern Barbarians by John Mateer

Giramondo Press invites all interested to the launch of John Mateer’s newest collection, Southern Barbarians, at Crow Books.

For more details see Crow Books

Southern Barbarians

The Portuguese traders who brought Europe to Japan in the sixteenth century were known as ‘southern barbarians’. In his new collection John Mateer offers a contemporary re-charting of the Portuguese Empire, the hemisphere of influence which ties Portugal to Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Australia, Timor, Malacca, Macau and Japan.

This empire is a fugitive one, notable for its saudade, its awareness of loss, its yearning for a world that appears only intermittently in this one, as an echo, a trace, a memory. At its heart is the figure of the poet, as migrant, tourist, desterrado. His identity is inhabited by other identities, just as the place he is in reminds him of other places.

He is Camões, author of Os Lusíadas, he is Pessoa of the multiple heteronyms. Haunted by doubles and reflections, accompanied by ‘spirit guides’ who pass between this world and the other, he is both ghostly and connected wherever he goes, connected in his ghostliness.

Belowsky Live: A Lesson In Belowskology

Posted on August 3, 2011 by WA Poets

24, 25, 26 and 27 August
DownStairs at the Maj, His Majesty’s Theatre 825 Hay St, Perth
FEATURING Belowsky

Belowsky is a train-wreck waiting to happen – he will hit all your senses, with his brand new, unique one-man show, so enter at your own risk and Take a Lesson in Belowskology!

Meet gurus that hang out on YouTube and complicated complex cosmopolitans. Meet John Lennon in heaven and Bonn Scott in his bedroom, meet the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren and Vivian Westwood down at World’s End.

Belowsky’s comedic, mesmerising spoken word will have you laughing, thinking and wondering as he takes you on a journey around the world and back again through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, like you’re trapped in a neon technicolour pinball machine.

From his famous lobby shows at the infamous Standard Hotel, West Hollywood, to his live talk show Authentic at the Notting Hill Arts Club and opening for The Charlatans at the Cuckoo Club in the West End of London for Death Disco TV, to most recently bringing his quick wit to Foxtel’s Quickies in my Kitchen with celebrity chef Anna Gare, this international hound dog will leave you wanting more.

Poet to the Stars, He’s a spoken word comic genius.—Alan McGee, co-founder of Creation Records and Oasis Manager

Tickets available at BOCS Ticketing on 9484 1133 | BOCS outlets | bocsticketing.com.au

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Southern Barbarians