Unusual Work No15

YOU
are invited
to the magazine launch of

UNUSUAL WORK

**** No.15 ****

bring a friend, make a night of it
!!! MEALS available!!!

Where?: GRUB FOOD VAN 87 – 89 Moor St. Fitzroy (indoors)

!!!Its an amazing space!!!

Wednesday 11th December 2013 — 7pm —

ENTRY: $10 + FREE COPY of magazine

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Μια μουσικο-ποιητική παράσταση βασισμένη πάνω σε λέξεις σημερινές, που πειραματίζεται με τους τρόπους απόδοσης της ποίησης.

Με αφετηρία την αφήγηση της ιστορίας του καθένα μας, αποκαλύπτεται η ομορφιά εσωτερικών και εξωτερικών τοπίων ψυχής, πνεύματος και σώματος.

Το Σάββατο 7 Δεκεμβρίου, στις 8.30μμ στο χώρο τέχνης Ash in Art,
Ηρακλέους 10 & Καλλιρρόης, σταθμός Μετρό Συγγρού-Φιξ.

Μουσική: Σωκράτης Αλεξιάδης (σιτάρ, μπεντίρ), Χάρης Αρώνης (κιθάρα), Διονύσης Καρούσος (μπάσο), Αντώνης Σταυρινός (τρομπέτα).

Απόδοση ποιημάτων: Μάγια Ανδρέου, Ιωάννα Αργυρίου, Αλέξης Δάρας, Κατερίνα Δημητρίου, Γιώργος Καπετανάκος.

Η παράσταση έχει διάρκεια 45′

Είσοδος ελεύθερη

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Dear poets and lovers of poetry.

16 November 2013 marks the last poetry event at Federation Square event for 2013 and brings in the scene another group of wonderfull poets to close enthusiastically this year.

Featured poets this time are John Stokes, Rose Lucas and Michael Farrell followed by an open mike.

JOHN STOKES is an international poet and author who has won or been shortlisted for many prizes including the Blake, Newcastle and Rosemary Dobson Prizes for Poetry. Publication credits include Antipodes, Meanjin, Island, A River in the Dark and Dancing in the yard at Eden. His poem, The View from the sold house, is available on the RedRoom Company’s free poetry app. His third major collection: “Fire in the Afternoon” has been accepted by Halstead Press for release early in the new year.

ROSE LUCAS is a Melbourne poet, writer and academic, currently teaching poetry and editing at Victoria University, Melbourne. Her poetry collection Even in the Dark (UWAP) appeared in July 2013. She is co-author of Bridgings: Readings in Australian Women’s Poetry (Oxford UP, 1996) and has published widely in the scholarly areas of women’s poetry, feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory and cinema studies. Her poems have appeared in a range of journals and anthologies and she was shortlisted for the ABR Poetry Prize in 2009. Lucas previously taught in the English Department at Monash University for twenty years. She is also currently Chair of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in Heat, Meanjin, Hecate, Best Australian Poems 2007 and 2009. Even in the Dark is her first collection of poetry.

MICHAEL FARRELL is originally from Bombala, NSW, now living in Melbourne. He co-edited the anthology Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets which was published by Puncher & Wattmann in late 2009. He has completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne on poetics in the nineteenth century and, in 2013, was a creative fellow at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He recently won ABR’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize. He has published several books, most recently open sesame (Giramondo) (2012) and the e-chapbook enjambment sisters present (Black Rider).

We also need around 10 open mic readers. Please drop me a line at poetryfedsquare@gmail.com or troaditisdimitris@gmail.com or come see me on the spot.

Facebook account http://www.facebook.com/PoetryAtFedSquare

Twitter account @poetryfedsquare

Finally, you’ll be notified almost a week prior whether or not the event will be in Beer DeLuxe upstairs again or in The Atrium.

See you there and then!

Το Πρόγραμμα Ελληνικών Σπουδών και το Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου La Trobe διοργανώνουν συνέδριο με την ευκαιρία του έτους Καβάφη και της επετείου των 130 χρόνων από τη γέννηση του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη.

Το συνέδριο θα πραγματοποιηθεί στις 21 & 22 Νοεμβρίου 2013 στο Πανεπιστήμιο La Trobe (στο κτίριο που βρίσκεται στην πόλη, 215 Franklin Street, Melbourne (Next to the Victoria Market)
Room: FS 104

Οι γλώσσες είναι η ελληνική και η αγγλική.

Την Πέμπτη, 21 Νοεμβρίου θα γίνει η επίσημη τελετή έναρξης του Συνεδρίου και το πρόγραμμα συμπεριλαμβάνει:
5.00-6.00μμ, Εγγραφή
6.00-7.00 μμ, Δεξίωση
7.00-7.15, Χαιρετισμοί
7.15-8.00, Τιμητική διάκριση στο Νίκο Νομικό
8.00–9.00, Κύρια ομιλία με θέμα: C. P. Cavafy and the Poetics of “Openness” με ομιλητή το Δρ Αντώνης Δρακόπουλος, Πανεπιστήμιο Σύδνεϋ.

Την Παρασκευή, 22 Νοεμβρίου από τις 10.00πμ μέχρι τις 5.00μμ περίπου θα διεξαχθούν οι επίσημες εργασίες του Συνεδρίου με ενότητες στον Καβάφη και Καζαντζάκη.

Κύριος ομιλητής για το Ν. Καζαντζάκη θα είναι ο ερευνητής Howard Dossor.

Άλλοι ομιλητές με επιστημονικές ανακοινώσεις θα είναι: ο καθηγητής Μιχάλης Τσιανίκας (Flinders University), ο Dr Nick Trakakis (Australian Catholic University), Dr Tom Petsinis (Victoria University), Δρ Χρήστος Φίφης (La Trobe University), Dimitri Gonis (La Trobe University), Γιάννης Γεωργίου, Δρ Ανθή Μπαλτατζή, Δρ Νίκος Μαθιουδάκης (Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης)

Το Συνέδριο θα κλείσει με αναγνώσεις λογοτεχνικών έργων που γράφτηκαν υπό τη επίδραση του Καβάφη και Καζαντζάκη.

Συντονιστές είναι ο καθηγητής Chris Mackie και η Δρ Μαρία Ηροδότου.
Οργανωτική επιτροπή: Δρ Χρήστος Φίφης, Δημήτρης Γκόνης, Δρ Σταυρούλα Νικολούδη, Δρ Αθανάσιος Σπηλιάς,

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες επικοινωνήστε με τη συντονίστρια του Συνεδρίου Dr. Maria Herodotou, m.herodotou@latrobe.edu.au

Κυκλοφόρησε το περιοδικό “΄Ενεκεν” Νο 29, Ιούλιος – Αύγουστος – Σεπτέμβριος 2013

Translated by Ouyang, is now available


This third volume in Vagabond’s Asian Pacific Writing Series brings together a selection of poetry from three key contemporary Chinese poets Yi Sha, Shu Cai & Yang Xie translated from Chinese and introduced by Ouyang Yu, with cover art by Xifa Yang.



Yi Sha was born in 1966 in Chengdu, and moved with his family at the age of two to the central Chinese city of Xi’an in Shaanxi province. He published his first poems while still at school, studied Chinese at Beijing Normal University, and became a noted figure among China’s university student poets. He has worked on literary magazines, as a TV presenter and independent publisher, and is now an assistant professor at the Xi’an International Studies University.



Born in 1965, in Fenghua, Zhejiang, Shu Cai was originally Chen Shucai. He graduated with a BA in French literature from the Department of French Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Languages University in 1987. From 1990 to 1994, he worked as a diplomat in the Chinese Embassy in Senegal and has since been working as a research fellow in Foreign Literature Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He won the Medal of Academic Palm Knight in France in 2008. His publications include such collections of poetry as Solitaire (China, 1997) and Short Poems by Shu Cai (Hong Kong, 2004) and his translations of French literature include A Selection of Poems by Pierre Reverdy (China, 2002), Selected Poems by René Char (China, 2002) and Selected Poems by Nine French Poets (Shanghai, 2009).



Yang Xie, born in 1972 in Zhejiang, China, is an award-winning poet whose poems have been published in China, Australia and America in the Age, Kenyon Review and Indiana Review a few years ago.  





Ouyang Yu, now based in Melbourne, came to Australia in early 1991 and, by 2013, has published 71 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in the English and Chinese languages. He also edits Australia’s only Chinese literary journal, Otherland (since 1995). His noted books include his award-winning novels, The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002) andThe English Class (2010), his collections of poetry, Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997) and New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2004), his translations in Chinese, The Female Eunuch(1991), The Ancestor Game (1996) and The Man Who Loved Children (1998), and his book of literary criticism, Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1888-1988 (Cambria Press, 2008).



You are warmly invited to attend the launch of In Between Angels and Animals (Arlen House) the second collection by Irish poet, Dr Emily Cullen

Date: Thursday, 7 Nov 2013
6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: Rooftop Garden, Level 6, Daniel Mannix Building, Australian Catholic University, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, 3065.

The book will be launched by Hon. Associate Professor Frances Devlin-Glass (Deakin University). Frances is a noted scholar of Irish & Irish-Australian literature and the founder of Bloomsday in Melbourne Inc.

Emily will also give a short reading of some of the poems from the collection.

The book addresses various states of in-betweenness, such as the transition from single woman to wife and mother. Echoing its title, there is also a sense of the animal and the divine as some of the poems grapple with the corporeality of pregnancy and motherhood, and the illumination that maternal love brings.

Emily’s debut poetry collection, No Vague Utopia, published by Ainnir Publishing in 2003, addressed themes from the perspective of a younger woman in a different decade in Ireland. The Stinging Fly, a top Irish and international literary journal had this to say about her first book: “With No Vague Utopia, Emily Cullen has produced a gem … Her language is rich and vibrant, and her metre musical and textured. While each poem is a personal expression of one woman’s experience, Cullen’s ability to vividly describe and render these experiences ensures that her readers can recreate each moment with her.” (The Stinging Fly, 2004).

An early critical response to In Between Angels and Animals states: “The subject matter has widened to include marriage, birth, parenting; the gigantic steps that need a new vocabulary … The result is a further exploration into private territory, gradually giving it shape and carving, smoothing, so that it can make sense to others.” (The Lantern Review, No. 8, Summer 2013).

A review has just been published in Tintean, the online magazine which aims to provide serious comment and an independent perspective on a wide range of Australian/Irish topics.

Emily, also a harpist and scholar, works at the School of Arts and Sciences, Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. She is a member of the DLS writers group.