The Loft Readings
When: Thursday 10th July, 6.30pm.
The bar will be open from 6.30pm; Readings will begin at 7pm sharp.
Where: Upstairs @ The Loft Venue, UTS City Campus, Broadway.
Entry: $5, Student concession $3
The University of Technology Sydney, Department of Writing and Social
Inquiry is delighted to support this series of poetry readings and
discussions with local and international poets. Quickly developing into
one of Sydney’s most popular poetry forums, the second Loft Reading for
2003 welcomes three of Sydney’s finest poets: Jill Jones, Keri
Glastonbury and Kate Fagan.
Jill Jonesis a poet and writer whose work has been widely published in
most of the leading literary periodicals in Australia as well as in a
number of print magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain and
India. In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Award for her first book of
poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star (Hazard Press). Her fourth book,
Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems, was published by Salt
Publishing 2002. It won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (NSW
Premier's Literary Awards). Jill is currently working on a full-length
manuscript that will showcase the new directions her work has taken in
the past couple of years.
Keri Glastonbury has had two chap books published: Hygienic Lily (Five
Islands Press 1999); super-regional (Vagabond Press 2001). In 2002 she
had the OZCO Rome Studio and this year she is finishing her DCA at the
University of Technology (called 'shut up no one wants to hear your
poems!') and teaching ficto-critical writing.
Kate Fagan’s first full-length poetry collection, The Long Moment, was
published by Salt Publishing in 2002 and launched at the Sydney
Writers' Festival. Her work has also appeared in a range of national
and international journals including Meanjin, Jacket, Southerly, Salt
(UK), The Prague Revue (Cz), The Literary Review (US) and Slope (US).
She has just returned from a tour of the UK where she read at the 13th
Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry and at a London launch of
her book. Kate is the editor-in-chief of HOW2, a US-based journal of
contemporary innovative and modernist writing by women.
Also featured at this Loft reading will be artwork by Rachel Samuels
and arc=atom, as well as a musicalperformance by Kate Fagan.
Kate is a mesmerising solo artist who accompanies her own evocative
songs with roots-based picking guitar. Her voice is well known to
Australian folk festival audiences through her work with The Fagans,
Australia's leading family band. Kate often works in a cross-over zone
between contemporary themes and traditional song-forms. Although her
lyrics are sometimes reminiscent of ballads in the English and
Appalachian traditions, they are more often an energetic fusion of new
popular forms -- always with an emphasis on storytelling and detailed
observation.
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Jill Jones
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones
Latest book: Screens Jets Heaven. Available now from Salt Publishing
http://www.saltpublishing.com
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