In Melbourne, in Saturday's Age newspaper, there's a news
story called LIVE AND LOUD POETS ' SOCIETY
by Jane Sullivan.
The piece is mainly about performance poetry but
poetryetc gets a mention:-
'The best e-zines include _Divan_, backed by Box Hill
TAFE; Alison Croggon's _Masthead_; Coral Hull's
_Thylazine_; and John Tranter's _Jacket_. John Kinsella,
the expatriate Australian poet based at Cambridge University,
has many Australian poets in touch with an international audience.
Ivor Indyk says our poets have developed an elaborate
international network online."
Amidst the discussions of performance poetry, yours truly
gets the following mention:-
"If you can't do showbiz, you learn. Hugh Tolhurst, poetry
editor at Black Pepper press, used to suffer from huge stage
fright when he began reading in public, but avoided the problem
by taking a performance class at the Victorian College of the Arts."
If I could be excused from collaborating over Marziale, I'd
plead not wanting to compete with excellent Australian efforts
by Peter Porter _After Martial_ and Laurie Duggan _Martial's
Epigrams_ plus a renewed case of stage fright.
best
Hugh
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