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Mark Mordue, Things That Year – By Vagabond Press
Things That Year is a random set of poems about life, love, and rock’n’roll. It’s about being inside some experiences, and outside of others, watching. The poems coalesce into a journey between beginnings, the deaths of friends, being lost and coming back from it all, home. Memories, like these poems, are just leaves on some weird tree inside us. Hopefully what falls also makes room for something new to grow.
Mark Mordue is a writer, journalist and editor based in Sydney. He was the winner of the 2010 Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year. He is currently working on a biography of Nick Cave.
Richard Tipping, Tommy Ruff – By presspress.com.au
Richard Tipping’s Tommy Ruff is a fresh catch of pointed poems from the deep south of Australia, by a poet well known for not fitting in to available categories.
A new publication by http://www.presspress.com.au
Inaugural AALITRA Translation Prize Awards Ceremony
Diane Di Prima’s 80th Birthday
Diane Di Prima in a reading with Michael McClure
The great poet-activist-wise-woman-scholar, Diane Di Prima turned 80 years old yesterday (6 August)! –
Happy Birthday Diane!
She, in the past year, has been teaching a course (at the Bay Area Public School) – “The Dream of Pre-History”
From her catalog note: “This class explores the beginnings of what we call “human” – the fall of Neanderthal and the rise of Cro-Magnon culture – the beginnings, dominance, and eclipse of matriarchy – the double invasions of patriarchy and oligarchy – and the persistent dream of a non-hierarchical society”
“The dream of a non-hierarchical society” – a beautiful and pure dream, these past four-score years, (despite the increasing brutality of “patriarchy and oligarchy”), a dream she has unflinchingly and heroically pursued – and continues to pursue.
Her Recollections of My Life As A Woman is required reading
Her poetry, for that matter, is (also) required reading
We conclude with her elegy for fellow cultural warrior, Amiri Baraka, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, on the occasion of his passing, last February:
For Amiri Baraka
don’ matter was it
yr left foot went bad
or yr right
don’ matter yr lungs
or yr heart
don’ matter if that
mass
on yr liver was
malignant
or what’s been wrong
so long
w/yr kidneys
don’t matter
drugs
or herbs
or acupuncture
or why you didn’t
go
to those appointments
don’t matter how much you drank
or if you drank
don’t matter you did or you didn’t
take drugs
meaning meds
or take drugs
meaning drugs
what matters now
what matters &
what’s gonna matter
a hundred
a thousand years
what matters when
what we wrote
what we thought
is lost
(& don’t kid yourself,
Ginsberg
it’s all of it
gonna be lost)
what matters:
every place
you read
every line
you wrote
every dog-eared book
or pamphlet
on somebody’s shelf
every skinny hopeful kid
you grinned that grin at
while they said
they thought they could write
they thought they could fight
they knew for sure
they could change the world
every human dream
you heard
or inspired
after the book-signing
after the reading
after one more
unspeakable
faculty dinner
after that god-awful flight
& the drive to the school
what matters:
the memory
of the poem
in thousands of minds
that quantum
of energy
passed over
passed
all the way over
to the other
to thousands
of others
what matters
Revolution
what matters
Revelation
what matters
the poem
taking root in
thousands
of minds …
“Revolution/what matters/Revelation/what matters”..
Happy Birthday, Diane!
Στη μνήμη του ποιητή Βύρωνα Λεοντάρη
Την τελευταία του πνοή άφησε ο ποιητής της μεταπολεμικής γενιάς Βύρων Λεοντάρης.
Ο Βύρων Λεοντάρης γεννήθηκε στη Νιγρίτα Σερρών το 1932. Πέρασε τα πρώτα χρόνια της ζωής του στη Σάμο, από όπου καταγόταν, και το 1939 εγκαταστάθηκε με την οικογένειά του στην Αθήνα.
Αδελφός του κριτικού Μανόλη Λαμπρίδη, του ποιητή Ανδρέα Λεοντάρη, σύζυγος της ποιήτριας Ζέφης Δαράκη. Σπούδασε στη Νομική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (1952-1956) και εργάστηκε ως δικηγόρος. Στο χώρο της λογοτεχνίας ασχολήθηκε με την ποίηση, ενώ δημοσίευσε επίσης κριτικά δοκίμια.
Πρωτοεμφανίστηκε το 1954 με την ποιητική συλλογή “Γενική Αίσθηση’. Συνεργάστηκε με τα περιοδικά “Κριτική”, “Εφημερίδα των Ποιητών”, “Επιθεώρηση Τέχνης”, κ.ά.
Ήταν μέλος της εκδοτικής ομάδας του περιοδικού “Σημειώσεις”.
Το ποιητικό του έργο τοποθετείται στο χώρο της μεταπολεμικής ελληνικής ποιητικής γενιάς. Έργα του μεταφράστηκαν στα γαλλικά, αγγλικά και τουρκικά.
[…]
‘Ήξεραν οι παληοί και προνοούσαν
να ‘ναι ελαφρύ το χώμα τους
φύλαγαν πάντα ένα λευκό σεντόνι στο σεντούκι
συγύριζαν το μέσα τους , στόλιζαν τις ψυχές τους
ήξεραν να μοιρολογούν
εξοικειώνονταν με τους νεκρούς τά ‘λεγαν μεταξύ τους
στ’ όνειρό τους
κ’ έπαιρναν απ’ το χέρι τους το αντίδωρο του αγνώστου
κάθε που τους ξεπροβοδίζανε στου ξύπνου το κατώφλι
Κι εμείς τώρα δεν ξέρουμε ούτε πού ‘ναι πεταμένα τα κόκκαλα
της μάνας μας…
Έχουμε αποκοπεί από τους πεθαμένους
δεν ακούγεται πια η φωνή τους μέσα στη φωνή μας
δεν ξέρουμε να κλάψουμε
πώς να φερθούμε μπρος στο θάνατο και τι να πούμε
Στα ουράνια βάραθρα γκρεμοτσακίζονται τα λόγια μας
άδεια χελωνοκαύκαλα.
*Από τη συλλογή “Εν γη αλμυρά”.
Melbourne Subjective: An Anthology of Contemporary Melbourne Writing
Press Release
Melbourne Subjective: An Anthology of Contemporary Melbourne Writing will be launched at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library at 5.30 pm on Thursday August 14th.
Kevin Brophy will read his stream-of-consciousness prose poem ‘Memory, Nausea, Sydney Road’
and Antoni Jach will present his innovative mixed genre fiction, ‘Film Stills from “Luminescence”: a Moving Picture.’
When the Cartridge Family, a group of emerging writers, received a grant from the City of Melbourne to publish an anthology showcasing their own writing and that of some of the best established Melbourne writers as well as other emerging writers, they were thrilled.
‘We felt the concept of collective writing about Melbourne was a good one,’ said Patricia Poppenbeek, leader of the group. ‘Melbourne is a City of Literature, after all, and there are very few anthologies of Melbourne stories. The city of Melbourne is often invisible in our literature. Plus, Melburnians are passionate about their city. And we thought the idea of having a mix of writers was a good one. But we were still stunned when we got the grant!’
poetry@fedsquare Saturday 16 August 2014 – Featuring Adrian Grima – Accompanied by Nick Tsiavos
poetry@fedsquare Saturday 16 August 2014
Beer DeLuxe upstairs – Federation Square
2-4pm
Featuring Adrian Grima
Accompanied by Nick Tsiavos
Dear poets and lovers of poetry
poetry@fedsquare swims internationaly this month with our international visitor poet Adrian Grima from Malta who will be accompanied by one of our most acclaimed local musicians Nick Tsiavos
Plus our usual, wonderful and very helpful open mic readers
Adrian Grima (Malta, 1968) has published prize-winning collections of poetry in Maltese that has been translated into sixteen languages. Book collections of his poetry have appeared in Italian, French, German, and English. He has read at festivals in the Mediterranean, Europe, Bali, and, most recently in Granada, Nicaragua. He has read with musicians playing jazz, classical, funk, and world music. He reads his work mainly in Maltese and English, but above all he is passionate about rhythm and the unpredictability of language. http://www.adriangrima.com
Nick Tsiavos is a bassist and composer whose work operates at the intersections of a number of cultural boundaries: from 8th century chant to contemporary minimalism, from syncretic hybridisation to experimental improvisation, from church to pub to concert hall. Since 1994, Tsiavos has been developing new music for the solo bass. As an ‘ethnic’ musician he is interested in, and informed by, non-canonical discourse, while refusing the tokenism that ethnicity often entails. Tsiavos has performed as a bass soloist at various venues throughout Australia. As the group’s artistic director, Tsiavos has produced a dark and confronting examination of Medieval and Byzantine chant. His group Jouissance has toured internationally and throughout Australia. The rest you are also discovered on the day http://nicktsiavos.net
Poetry@fedsquare is coming to you the third Saturday of every month (except December and January) under the Federation Square and the auspices of Multicultural Arts Victoria.
Contact details
Dimitris Troaditis
poetryfedsquare@gmail.com
troaditisdimitris@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/PoetryAtFedSquare
http://twitter.com/poetryfedsquare
Radio Bauhaus
Το radiobauhaus.com είναι στην ευχάριστη θέση να μοιράζεται και να στηρίζει την προσπάθεια του ανεξάρτητου περιοδικού Παλινωδίαι (palinodiae.com) αλλά και να στηρίζεται από αυτό. Καλή συνέχεια!
Το περιοδικό Παλινωδίαι, λειτουργεί εδώ και έναν περίπου χρόνο ως ένα αυτοοργανωμένο εγχείρημα τέχνης και γραμμάτων. Ιδρύθηκε το 2012 από μία καλλιτεχνική συλλογικότητα της πόλης Ρεν της βορείου Γαλλίας και το 2013 σχηματίζεται με νέες δομές στην Ελλάδα, την επιμέλεια του οποίου αναλαμβάνει, εξ ολοκλήρου πλέον η νέα συνέλευση που συντηρείται σχηματικά έως και τώρα.
Το περιοδικό είναι άτακτο ως προς τη έκδοσή του και μη κερδοσκοπικό στον χαρακτήρα. Αποτελείται από τις επιμέρους ομάδες των συντακτών και εικαστικών, γενικής διαχείρισης και των εξωτερικών συνεργατών. Η διαδικτυακή του δράση αφορά θεματολογικά στήλες που έχουν να κάνουν με Λογοτεχνία, Καλές Τέχνες, Αφιερώματα και Δοκίμια, Παρουσιάσεις, και Συνεντεύξεις.
Το περιοδικό Palinodiae διοργανώνει Μουσικές Συναυλίες, Καλλιτεχνικά Δρώμενα, Παρεμβάσεις Τέχνης Δρόμου, όπως επίσης έχει σκοπό να καθιερώσει το «Καλλιτεχνικό Φεστιβάλ Palinodiae» με ετήσια παρουσία. Η ηλεκτρονική φόρμα του περιοδικού παρουσιάζεται στην διεύθυνση palinodiae.com στην οποία εκθειάζει το καλλιτεχνικό του έργο.
Σε χαρτώα μορφή μπορείτε να βρείτε τεύχη και flyers του περιοδικού σε ελεύθερους κοινωνικούς χώρους κι επιλεγμένα σημεία για τα οποία θα ενημερώνεστε απ’ τις ενημερώσεις του.
Ανατρέξτε εδώ για όλους τους συνδέσμους και τα social media του περιοδικού:
https://www.facebook.com/Palinodiae/info ”
poetry@fedsquare – Saturday, 19 July 2014 – 2pm-4pm
poetry@fedsquare
Saturday, 19 July 2014
2pm-4pm
Beer DeLuxe upstairs at Federation Square
With the so called boat people and the refugee issue remaining and still dominating the current social and politican arena in Australia we thought it would great to give a voice to those voiceless, that is those who put their lives in a huge risk, crossing wild seas and lots of dangers trying to escape hard economic and social conditions and also political and other similar harrasment and settle in a civilised country and put their life dreams in a motion again.
In 19 July we will feature young poet and activist Benjamin Solah and the group Writing Through Fences: Poets from within immigration detention through the launch of Through The Wire: writing from immigration detention.
BENJAMIN SOLAH is a writer of truth, fiction and poetry, a spoken word artist and political activist. He grew up in the suburbs of Western Sydney but now lives in Melbourne where he studies Creative Writing at RMIT University. Editor of MelbourneSpokenWord.com and a convener of Keep Left. His writing has appeared in Overland, The Emerging Writer, Geek Mook and various anthologies. He has also co-produced a spoken word EP with Santo Cazzati “Duel Power”. He has performed poetry and spoken word at Passionate Tongues, Dan O’Connell, Midsumma Festival and Keep Left. He has been a refugee activist since 2004 and a member of Refugee Action Collective (Victoria). His chap book “Broken Bodies” is a series of poetic snapshots concerned with the treatment of asylun seekers.
WRITING THROUGH FENCES (WTF) is a writing group primarily made up of people who are or have been directly affected by the Australian immigration industry. It was established in 2013 by Janet Galbraith. The name Writing Through Fences refers to the ability of writers and artists to reach beyond fences and walls that attempt to contain, define and silence them. The name also situates this group within the long colonial practices of division of country, of displacement and incarceration characteristic of Australia’s ongoing racist history. Writing Through Fences recognises that we live, create and are imprisoned on stolen lands.
Over the past eleven months the group has grown into a strong community of creativity and support. It has become a place of refuge for many. Writing and art-making is an enlivening process where the practitioners are able to define and re-create selves that reach beyond and before the current violences they are experiencing, asserting their different experiences, personalities, styles, histories and literary traditions.
You can find WTF’s work at http://thearrivalists.tumblr.com/. If you wish to support this group you can find Friends of Writing Through Fences at https://www.facebook.com/friendsofWTF
To contact Janet Galbraith: galbraith_janet@yahoo.com.au
We will have also our open mic readers.
Poetry@fedsquare is coming to you the third Saturday of every month (except December and January) under the Federation Square and the auspices of Multicultural Arts Victoria.
Contact details
Dimitris Troaditis
poetryfedsquare@gmail.com
troaditisdimitris@gmail.com
facebook http://www.facebook.com/PoetryAtFedSquare
twitter http://twitter.com/poetryfedsquare
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