Poetry@FedSquare
Saturday 19 October 2-4pm
Federation Square – Atrium
Entry: Free
(located near the Flinders Street)
Dear poets, poetry lovers and fellow travellers to the poetic journeys
Under the full support of Federation Square and the auspices of Multicultural Arts Victoria we are pleased to announce that poetry@fedsquare is on again in 19 October, 2-4pm
We hope that October will be full of the Spring colors and scents translated into a poetic form and image.
Poetry@fedsquare is a free program of poetry, music and performance at Federation Square. Each month a group of different poets present their new (or not) work in a public setting to an ever-changing audience. It is also an opportunity to hear new words and voices.
This month we come again to you with three amazing local poets who are Bronwyn Lovell, Jennifer Mackenzie, Michael Crane and Janet Galbraith.
BRONWYN LOVELL studied Creative Writing at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne—where she was awarded the Hannah Barry Memorial Award for Performing Arts and the H.B. Higgins Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Poetry. Bronwyn has performed at the Overload Poetry Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Bendigo Writers Festival. She has been published in several local and international journals, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Montreal International Poetry Prize. She works for Writers Victoria on the editorial team of The Victorian Writer magazine; pens a monthly poetry column for feminist publication Lip Magazine; and holds an ongoing writing residency at Kinfolk Café in the Melbourne CBD as part of Australian Poetry’s Café Poets Program.
JENNIFER MACKENZIE is the author of Borobudur (Transit Lounge, 2009), republished in Indonesia as Borobudur and Other Poems (Lontar, Jakarta 2012). Her awards include the Marten Bequest Travelling Fellowship and the Felix Meyer Fellowship from the University of Melbourne. She has presented her work at a number of conferences, festivals and readings in Indonesia, Thailand and Hong Kong. Highlights have been reading at Borobudur itself as part of the Ubud Writers Festival in 2009, and reading with Goenawan Mahomed at The Call to Poetry event in Jakarta in 2012. Borobudur was highly commended in the Asia Australia Arts Awards 2013.
MICHAEL CRANE is a widely published Australian poet, writer and compere of poetry events in Melbourne. Michael Crane has had poems and stories extensively published in Overland, Meanjin, Southerly and many other magazines and newspapers. He had a poem published in the Best Australian Poems 2011 and two poems in the Australian Love poems 2013. He organised what he believe was the first Poetry Slam in Australia in 1991 as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. He organised Poetry Idol with heats at several libraries and the final held at the Melbourne Writers Festival to large audiences from 2007 to 2012. He was the managing editor of the Song lyrics, poetry and fiction annual magazine called the Paradise Anthology and the final issue, number 7 will be published early December. Submissions closed.
He has had four books published with independent publishers and his current book is called Postcards from the End of the World: a Michael Crane sampler. It contains 103 poems and almost twenty micro stories in the form of postcards about a mythical city above a waterfall where strange things happen like a woman kisses men and they shrink, a bull that cannot die, a wicked witch who wants to be good, a bitter man who collects women’s ponytails and many others. The book also contains some of Michael’s longer fiction.
michaelfcrane.wordpress.com
JANET GALBRAITH was born in Way Wurru country – North East Victoria and currently lives in Jaara country – Castlemaine. Janet’s poetry is often concerned with memory, place, history and the fragmenting effects of trauma. Her work has been performed at festivals, published in online and print journals within Australia and presented alongside her visual art in both group and solo exhibitions. Janet was Director of the Broken Hill and Far West NSW Writer’s Centre through the mid 2000’s. She currently runs the Castlemaine Vigil in Recognition of Aboriginal Sovereignty and in Solidarity with Refugees. Her first collection of poetry, ‘re-membering’, published by Walleah Press, will be launched in October 2013.
There are also our open mic readers for 5 minuets each. Please if you thing you have 2-3 pems to share with us come in front and tell us at troaditisdimitris@gmail.com, poetryfedsquare@gmail.com and/or poetry@fedsquare.com
See you all there
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