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wapoet's blog2008 WA Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week eventsSAT 23 Aug 08: Please note some of the events below have been updated... For up to the minute updates on 2008 WA Poety Festival and National Poetry Week Events, go to Maureen Sexton's website here... brought to you by WA Poets IncEmail: wapoets@yahoo.com.au WA POETS EVENTS - 29 AUGUST - 7 SEPTEMBER 2008:FRIDAY 29th AugustOOTA Poetry Wall, State Library of Western Australia School Student's Day with Veronica Lake OOTA Poetry Reading with guest poet, Marcella Polain de Ness @ Scots with WA Poets Inc SATURDAY 30 AUGUSTFestival Grand Opening OPENFACE 08 - Performance Poetry Action SUNDAY 31st AUGUSTReconciliation workshop, Translation Workshop & Multicultural Reading WAPI Poetry Reading, with special guests and open readings MONDAY I SEPTEMBERHaiku Wall at City of Perth Library Workshop: Sculpting in English with Janet Jackson Haiku Workshop with Maureen Sexton Walking on Water, Laneway Theatre, Perth WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBERPoetry Session with Kevin Gillam THURSDAY 4 SEPTEMBERCreative Connections Poetry and Art Exhibition Voicebox, FAWWA anthology readings FRIDAY 5 SEPTEMBERPoetry Session with Evelyn Bach Lunchlines at Edith Cowan University WA Bush Poets & Yarn Spinners Traditional Night - poems from the past SUNDAY 7 SEPTEMBERPCW Poetry Extravaganza WA Poets Inc is in full swing - New Stuff!WA POETS INCWA Poets Inc is in full swing. A new committee has been formed and we are accepting new members. We have some very exciting events coming up in 2008, so keep an eye out on this website... Further information will be made available shortly on the website, about the future of The Word is Out Journal. We are not accepting subscriptions to the Word is Out Journal. We are however, publishing the exciting new creatrix poetry e-journal. Please click here to go to creatrix. WA POETS INC AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: WA Poets Inc. has a new and exciting Festival team. All members bring together their creative skills, love of the arts and many, their arts administration experience. The Festival team is dedicated and enthusiastic, wishing to build on the success of past festivals and to maintain current ties with Western Australia arts and government infrastructure. As administrators with new ideas, scope and vision, WA Poets Inc. is working towards a successful 2008 3 day Spring Poetry Festival. By showcasing local, national and international poets, we believe that we can show the public the camaraderie that exists between Australian poets and their work in general. COMMITTEE STRUCTURE Committee members: WA Spring Poetry Festival team members: WA Poets Inc contact: wapoets@yahoo.com.au WA POETS INC EVENTS IN 2008 (Including the WA Spring Poetry Festival and WA Poets Inc celebrates National Poetry Week) Title: Creative Connections Poetry and Art Exhibition, in association with WA Poets Inc Title: Three Day WA Spring Poetry Festival - WA Poets Inc (the organisers of the WA Spring Poetry Festival) celebrate National Poetry Week 2008 with a three day festival Title: Haiku Competition and Haiku Wall - City of Perth Library celebrates National Poetry Week Title: Poet's Corner celebrates National Poetry Week 2008 Title: Haiku Workshop - City of Perth Library celebrates National Poetry Week Title: Walking on Water celebrates National Poetry Week 2008 Title: Exhibition of History of WA Poetry Title: Westerly Centre Readings Title: Voicebox Title: Creative Connections Poetry and Art Exhibition, in association with WA Poets Inc, celebrates National Poetry Week 2008 Title: Poetry of the Sacred Title: Poetry Film Festival Poets on PoetryRobert Kennedy, a Sydney based poet wants to produce a book titled Poets Workshop with Janet Jackson - 12 JulyI will be doing a workshop on "Sculpting in English" at Tom Collins House on Saturday afternoon 12 July. It will be about three hours long, and cheap! -- firm details when I have them. Target audience: All poets willing to try new ideas. Creative prose writers wanting to have a go at poetry. Objectives: If interested please contact FAWWA. 2008 CREATIVE CONNECTIONS ART AND POETRY EXHIBITION2008 CREATIVE CONNECTIONS ART AND POETRY EXHIBITION There will be two exhibitions this year. CREATIVE CONNECTIONS ART AND POETRY EXHIBITION Art and poetry are important ways for people to express themselves creatively and we want to give differently-abled and abled artists and poets the opportunity to do this and connect with the community and each other! Love Poetry Hate Racism EventsLove Poetry Hate Racism - Celebrating diversity through poetryAll across the Globe throughout the month of April 2008 WINGS presentsLove Poetry Hate Racism in WA Saturday 19th April 20 View Stree, North Perth 7 pm to 9 pm Contact Afeif: afeif5@yahoo.com.au April, 2008, will see as many as 50 cities all around the world organise Love Poetry Hate Racism events. These events will encompass everything from large scale events in big venues with feature poets, to Poetry in the Park with small groups of local readers, to local poetry groups turning over their monthly library readings to the topic of racism. This is the second year Love Poetry Hate Racism events have been held around the world. In 2007, a group of poets based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a city known at the time as the "race hate capital of Europe", decided to put out a call for poetry events to be held on the 20th April to provide a counter to the tendency to identify the day with intolerance, bigotry and the espousal of racist ideology because of its association with Enoch Powell’s "Rivers of Blood" speech. In this speech, delivered on the 20th April 1968, Powell suggested that people in Britain were being swamped by alien cultures. The speech was littered with racist ideas and provided the backbone for groups who wished to pursue anti-immigrant ideologies over the years since the speech was delivered. We wanted also to provide a counter to the idea that the mixing of cultures was something that would lead to disaster. Actually we believe that it is the cross-pollination of the ideas of different cultures which breathes new life into our futures. This year we have commitments from Warsaw to New York, from Auckland to Amsterdam and from Birmingham to Belfast. In fact we are already better represented around the world than we were last year. The events come at a time when racist ideas are being stirred up everywhere; In the US elections accompanying the rise of Barack Obama as a serious contender for the nomination as Democratic candidate, in the new immigration laws being put into place in Britain, in the attempts recently in Britain to give credence to Enoch Powell’s "Rivers of Blood" speech. It looks possible that this year we may be welcoming for the first time this year poetry events which will run by poets from cities with a predominantly Muslim background. Of course in each city where Love Poetry Hate Racism takes place there will be local issues which people will be seeking to address but our general approach will be the same. Love Poetry Hate Racism asks simply that people show respect to ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples and migrants and that we stand together to encourage diversity. Our starting point is that the interaction of cultures is essential for the progression of Art and with poetry in particular being an art form which provides us with common ground wherever we happen to be, we also suggest that society benefits from this multicultural interaction. Anyone who wants to organise a poetry event using those simple principles is welcome to do so. We are also open to the idea that some people would like to be part of the events but worry about the moniker. That is simple to deal with, call your event "Celebrating Diversity Through Poetry" – and just affiliate to LPHR. This year the dates are flexible and events are being held in Galway, Ireland in early April and in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia on April 25th. That means there is a window of opportunity over 10 days. You can organise your own event or allow for an already existing event to be part of Love Poetry Hate Racism by simply informing us that you wish to do that. If you intend to be part of the events happening all over the world on the weekend of April 18-20 or during the period from April 11th through to April 25th please contact the following, www.myspace.com/lovepoetryhateracism or chelleymclear@hotmail.com or gordonfrombelfastpoets@yahoo.co.uk. National Poetry Week 2008Hello to WA poets, Event organisers and Writing centres, National Poetry Week 2008 will be celebrated all around Australia from 29th August to 7th September. If you would like to organise any events or include regular events in WA for this year's National Poetry Week, please contact the WA Co-ordinator, Maureen Sexton by email at: maureensexton@bigpond.com or sajwriter06@yahoo.com.au or by phone: 0435 024 616. For more details about National Poetry Week, contact the National Co-ordinator, Jayne Fenton Keane: jfk@nationalpoetryweek.com or go to www.nationalpoetryweek.com This year’s themes are: Screen; Shop; Suspect; Space; I, eye; Friend; Cast; Save; to be interpreted any way you like. Events tentatively organised so far – Title: WA Poets Inc (the organisers of the WA Spring Poetry Festival) celebrates National Poetry Week 2008 with a three day festival Title: Poet's Corner celebrates National Poetry Week 2008 Title: Walking on Water celebrates National Poetry Week 2008 Title: Creative Connections Poetry and Art Exhibition, in association with WA Poets Inc, celebrates National Poetry Week 2008 Warm regards From National Co-ordinator Jayne Fenton Keane: National Poetry Week is in its 7th year. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to its growth and diversity. Join NPW 2008 to help create poetry events that will excite, stimulate or stun the public. National Poetry Week seeks to foster imaginative partnerships with poets, audiences, communities, artists, students, bookstores and arts organisations. Most events are organised on a voluntary basis with the goodwill of venue managers, volunteer coordinators, poets, organisations and individuals who share an interest in poetry. If you are passionate about poetry and the need to bring it alive in the streets and consciousness of the broader public you are invited to join the team of organisers for this year. Lodge your interest now to set the wild language of poetry free in the world. POETS CORNER @ PAGES CAFÉPOETS CORNER @ PAGES CAFÉState Library, Perth Cultural Centre ~ 20 October 2007 will be hosted by FRANCES MACAULAY FORDE ~ invited guests so far are: LIANA CHRISTENSEN, ANDREW BURKE, ASHLEY J HICKS, JANET JACKSON and previous guest host DEANNE LEBER with BRYN GRIFFITHS to be confirmed. Contact Frances to read 3rd Sat each month Poet's Corner & Pages Cafe, Perth, WA Or contact Frances through her website http://www.francesmacaulayforde.com Contact Frances to read 3rd Sat each month Or contact Frances through her website AN AFTERNOON with DOROTHY PORTER2007 WA SPRING POETRY FESTIVAL – 13TH-21ST OCTOBER TICKETS NOW ON SALE! – ‘AN AFTERNOON with DOROTHY PORTER’ – Sunday 14th Oct, State Library Dorothy Porter is the author of Driving Too Fast, Crete, Other Worlds, Akhenaten, What a Piece of Work, and Wild Surmise. The Monkey’s Mask won the Age Book of the Year, National Book Council Award, and the Braille Book of the Year for poetry. As a festival highlight, WA Poets Inc. proudly brings you ‘An Afternoon with Dorothy Porter’ with a talk, reading, Q&A time, plus book signing in the State Library Theatre, Alexander Library Building, Perth on Sunday 14th October at 1.00pm. Tickets: Full price: $15 – Member/Concession/Students $10. Send a cheque/money order to WA Poets Inc., PO Box 684, Inglewood WA 6932 with a SSAE for return of tickets. For further details contact the Festival Directors at wapi@iprimus.com.au - Or visit the website for membership/festival details: www.thewordisout.net.au "HEL-RAISER" CABARET CD LAUNCHHillarious poems, saucey songs and wicked comedy by Helen Child, one of Perth's finest and funniest performance After featuring at Melbourne's Overload Poetry Festival and on "NoiseTV", Helen is launching her first CD, "Poetry From Hel", for this year's WA Pride Festival. The evening includes her comedy characters: Old Ma Bones, Her Majesty the Queen, Dolly the Sexdoll Rights Activist and Helvis the Pelvis. PLUS delicious $10 pizzas and a pint! Funky music and stylish surrounds. WHEN: SUNDAY 7TH OCTOBER.  |
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Author of The Monkey’s Mask (made into film) and now another crime-thriller El Dorado, Dorothy Porter is one of Australia's most maverick and versatile poets. According to the Weekend Australian, her new verse novel El Dorado sold 4,000 copies in the first month. And if that’s not all, wait until you catch her libretto The Eternity Man made into film by Channel 4 UK/ABC TV, directed by Britain’s Julien Temple (best known for his Sex Pistols film “The Filth & The Fury”).