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February 2010

 

If you would like to send information for inclusion in poets ink, please email to maureenjsexton@gmail.com Please share your successes by sending information on your recent writing accomplishments for the Member’s Credits section.

 

In this issue:
WA Poets Inc News
Poet’s and Songwriter’s Updates
Poet’s and Songwriter’s Calendar
Other Information

 

WA Poets Inc News

 

Join or re-join WA Poets Inc. Support your poetry community by joining WA Poets Inc. You will enjoy the following benefits:

  • You will have the opportunity to be published in the Creatrix poetry journal
  • You will have the opportunity to be invited as guest poets for annual WA Spring Poetry Festival
  • You will have the opportunity to perform/read at the WAPI Perth Cultural Markets
  • You will receive poets ink, the WA Poets Inc newsletter full of information about poetry and poetry events
  • You will be able to vote at general and annual general meetings
  • You will have the opportunity to have your name on the poets database on the WA Poets Inc website with links to your websites/blogs. (If you would like links to your websites/blogs next to your name, please send the links to maureenjsexton@gmail.com.)

Membership is $20 or $10 (concession) for the year (1st January to 31st December)

Please email the membership secretary, Anne: einnady@yahoo.com or go to: http://www.wapoets.net.au/pages/membershipform.html Please make cheques or money orders payable to WA Poets Inc. If you wish to pay by direct/electronic transfer, please email einnady@yahoo.com and we will send you the details. Any donation, no matter how big or small, would help toward the enormous costs of running the festival and other projects of WA Poets Inc. * Please include your email address, as this is very important!

 

Next Creatrix deadline - 21st February for the March issue. The poetry selection, editing and administration team are Peter Jeffery, Sally Clarke, Chris Palozzolo, Anne Dyson, Jeremy Balius and Veronica Lake. The haiku selection, editing and administration team are Maureen Sexton, Rose Van Son and Dean Meredith. Creatrix will be published online in March, June, September and December each year. Please follow the submission guidelines carefully. http://www.wapoets.net.au/pages/creatrixhomepage.html

 

WAPI at Perth Cultural Markets. WA Poets Inc will continue to host poetry readings at the Perth Cultural Markets on the third Saturday of each month, 12 to 2 pm. For more info, contact Gary: garydepiazzi@bigpond.com. There may soon be a change of venue, so watch this space or check out the website. http://www.wapoets.net.au.

 

Creative Connections Art and Poetry Exhibitions. Organising is under way for the 2010 Creative Connections Art and Poetry Exhibition. The next Creative Connections meeting is on Wednesday 3rd February, 10 am at 64 Boulton St, Dianella. For more info, contact Maureen: creativeconnections@live.com.au. More information soon.

 

2010 WA Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week. An exciting program is being developed and funding applied for. You will receive more information soon. The dates are: 2010 WA Spring Poetry Festival – 27th to 29th August, 2010 National Poetry Week – 30th August to 5th September.

 

Poet’s and Songwriter’s Updates


PERTH POETRY SLAM at the Blue Room is on again for four weeks at 8pm on Wednesdays starting from 24 February. Registrations open soon at www.perthpoetryslam.com, DATES: HEAT 1 - 24 FEBRUARY, HEAT 2 - 3 MARCH, HEAT 3 - 10 MARCH, FINAL - 17 MARCH, all at the Blue Room as part of the 21 Summer Nights... from 8pm. Also may be a Bunbury heat! Participants will be able to register at this website from 27th JANUARY. Please note: this site will be updated over the coming week with new information about the 2010 Perth Poetry Slam series contact us


Shane McCauley's poetry classes at OOTA have resumed. http://www.indigojournal.org.au/join.htm

 
Poetry classes with Janet Jackson on Monday evenings at Challenger TAFE in Mosman Park this term, subject to sufficient enrolments. www.challengertafe.wa.edu.au

 
New site called PoetSpeak. A site publishing audio recordings of poetry and text. Features authors reading their own work. Looking for quality contributions. http://thepoetspeak.com/

 
Cottonmouth returns to its monthly schedule in 2010. Look out for some special "Cottonmouth Presents" gigs throughout the remainder of this year. Are there words twitching in the back of your throat? Letters searing scars on your tongue and sending spasms through your wisdom teeth? Is there scribble behind your lips and ink on your soft palate? Are you Cottonmouth? Get ready to spit diction. Cottonmouth is a performance-based project by and for emerging wordsmiths. Held monthly, the night convenes spoken-worders, poets, sound artists, playwrights, new-media-welders and basically anyone with narrative art tickling their epiglottis. Accompanying the Cottonmouth nights is a national podcast and a publication. Watch this space. http://cottonmouth.org.au/

 
Congratulations to the WA songwriters who won awards in the 29th Australian Songwriting Contest – Deb Beckett (Ballad), Dave Gillam (Open section), Sarah Newman (Spiritual) and Holly Denton (Youth section). See http://www.asai.org.au

 
The Australian Haiku Society Update: Review of Wind Over Water Anthology http://www.haikuoz.org/2010/01/review_of_wind_over_water_anth.html

 

Poet’s and Songwriter’s Calendar

 

  • Sat 30 Jan PERTH POETRY CLUB features Deanne Leber and Ron Okely. 2pm at The Moon, 323 William St, Northbridge. Deanne's poetry is colourful and lyrical. Ron's is more matter-of-fact, often presenting fascinating snippets of Perth's past. Deanne's first collection was shortlisted for the 2007 West Australian Premier's Book Awards. Plus OPEN MIKE for poets and songwriters, professional sound, and the friendly ambience of The Moon cafe. 2-4pm, 323 William Street, Northbridge. Come and listen! Perth Poetry Club: www.perthpoetryclub.com  Email: perthpoetryclub@gmail.com Phone: Janet 0406 624 578

 

 

  • Fri 5 Feb Bush Poets Monthly "muster" 1st Friday of each month, The Auditorium, Bentley Park (formerly Swan Cottages) Retirement Village, 26 Plantation Drive South Bentley, 7.30 - 10pm, Cost: visitors $7 - members $5, Enquiries Brian Langley: briandot@tpg.com.au, Website: www.wabushpoets.com

 

  • Sat 6 Feb PERTH POETRY CLUB features Indigo (SA slam winner) + TBA Indigo, 27, is an emerging artist in spoken word, poetry, circus and dance. Recently third in the 2009 Australian Poetry Slam, she was the SA State Winner two years running. She enjoyed Perth and its poets so much the last time she is back again to distract you, and herself, with some entertaining word play. If that doesn't work, she might be forced to resort to a little contortion. 2-4pm Perth Poetry Club: www.perthpoetryclub.com Email: perthpoetryclub@gmail.com Phone: Janet 0406 624 578

 

 

  • Sun 14 Feb and Sun 14 March: CONTEMPORARY POETRY WORKSHOPS with Janet Jackson, 2-5pm, Mt Lawley Neighbourhood Learning Centre. Limited places: book now. lostpoetjj@gmail.com 0406 624 578

 

  • Sat 20 Feb WA Poets Inc at Perth Cultural Centre Markets Guest poets TBA plus Open Mike Third Saturday of the month at the outdoor markets at Perth Cultural Centre, 12-2pm. Contact: garydepiazzi@bigpond.com

 

 

 

 

 

  • Sat 27 Feb INDIGO 5 LAUNCH, 6:15pm, New Fortune Theatre, UWA at the Perth Writers Festival. RSVP by 22 Feb to info@indigojournal.org.au Lovesong novelist Alex Miller will be launching indigo’s newest volume of the best in WA writing. It’s going to be indigo’s biggest launch party yet, with performance readings by Kate Hall and Murray Dowsett and a special appearance from Dr. Carmen Lawrence. Drinks will be provided, the latest volume of indigo will be on sale and a host of interstate guest editors, past and present, will be mingling in the crowd. Make sure to stick around afterwards because the Cottonmouth crowd will be taking to the stage for live music, edge-of-your-seat slam poetry and readings from some of WA’s best young writing talent.

 

  • Sat 27 Feb Poetry at HARRIS ORGANIC WINERY, Swan Valley 7-9 pm Harris Organic Winery invites you to an evening of poetry under the grape arbour. Please bring any poetical works that you would like to share  – especially welcome are original works (15 minute time slots) Harris Organic Winery is located: Corner Great Northern Hwy/Memorial Ave, Baskerville (the top of the Swan Valley) Fresh organic food will be served throughout the evening Wine by the glass and bottle available for sale. The cost is only $20 per person (free for performing poets!) For further enquiries, please phone (08) 92960216 email:  info@harrisorganicwine.com

 

  • Sun 28 Feb Fringe Poetry and Performance Night. Guests TBA. Last Sunday night of every month, 7.30 – 10 pm, The Fringe Gallery Willagee, 94 Bawdan St, Willagee (opposite Webber Reserve), Cost: $5. Refreshments can be purchased on the night., Readings from invited poets and writers., An open mike section (if you wish to read please come early to register), Some music by local artists, A book exchange ( bring along any old but worthy books that you wish to sell), Enquiries Terry Farrell on 0412 911 562 or email: terry.farrell@optusnet.com.au.

 

 

 

Other Information

 

WA Poets Inc, PO Box 684, Inglewood 6932, Email: wapoets@gmail.com, Web: http://www.wapoets.net.au

 

Australian Songwriters Association, http://www.asai.org.au/events/

 

The Line Mine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thelinemine/

 

WA Folk Federation http://wafolk.iinet.net.au/calendar.html

 

Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre, 11 Old York Road, Greenmount, WA 6056, Telephone/Facsimile: (08) 9294 1872, Email: kspf@iinet.net.au, Web: www.kspf.iinet.net.au/

 

Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Joondalup Campus, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, WA 6027, Telephone: (08) 9301 2282, Email: cowan05@bigpond.com.au, Web: www.pcwc.org.au.

 

Fellowship of Australian Writers WA, Tom Collins House, corner Wood and Kirkwood streets, Swanbourne, WA 6010, Telephone: (08) 9384 4771, Facsimile: (08) 9384 4854, Email: admin@fawwa.org.au, Web: www.fawwa.org.au

 

Society of Women Writers WA, PO Box 434, Northbridge, WA 6865, Email: swwofwa@gmail.com

 

WA Bush Poets and Yarn Spinners, 1st Friday of the month, 7pm for 7.30pm start, Enquiries Brian Langley: briandot@tpg.com.au, Website: www.wabushpoets.com

 

Poet’s Hub at writingwa, http://www.writingwa.org/articles/category/5

 

What’s On at DCA http://www.dca.wa.gov.au/news/whats_on/writing

 

dot dot dash magazine: http://www.dotdotdash.org/

 

Mother has words zine: http://motherhaswords.blogspot.com/, http://zinewiki.com/MoTHER_(has_words%E2%80%A6), http://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/MoTHERhaswords, http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=35340354861&ref=search&sid=1463153461.2724094442..1, http://www.myspace.com/motherhaswords.

 

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