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>From: "buglette" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Kathleen Evans" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: The Loft Readings, Friday 15th March 2002 >Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:17:40 +1100 >X-Priority: 3 > >Hello - > >You're hereby invited to come along to the second of the Loft Readings on >the 15th March, we'd love to see you there! > >Bests, >Kathleen > >---- >THE LOFT READINGS >The University of Technology Sydney, Department of Writing and Social >Inquiry is >delighted to support the second in a series of poetry readings and >discussions with >local and international poets. > >After the resounding success of the first Loft Reading held in October 2001, >UTS is proud to present the first reading for the 2002 series, featuring >Martin Harrison, MTC Cronin and John Mateer. > >Martin Harrison started publishing poems in London in the mid-70s where his >work was associated with the New English poets. His collection of poems The >Distribution of Voice was published by University of Queensland Press in >1993. This was followed by The Kangaroo Farm - (Paper Bark Press 1997). His >new collection of poems is titled, Summer, and published by Paper Bark Press >(October 2001). His recent work has been praised for its lyrical and >metaphorical richness as well as for the essayistic, many-sided nature of >some his longer poems. He has been described as a writer whose poetry is >both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of the >Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western >life. > >MTC Cronin's work first appeared in print in 1993 and since then she has had >seven books of poetry published, her most recent books being: Talking to >Neruda's Questions and Bestseller (Vagabond Press, 2001) and My Lover's >Back: 79 Love Poems (UQP, 2002). Awards for her work include the Gwen >Harwood Memorial Prize for Poetry and the Marten Bequest Travelling >Scholarship for Poetry. After being employed for most of the decade of the >nineties in law (specializing in feminist jurisprudence), she has now begun >teaching writing at secondary school and tertiary levels. She is currently >working on a PhD, Poetry and Law: Discourses of the Social Heart, at the >University of Technology, Sydney and has recently received an Established >Writers New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. > >John Mateer was born in South Africa in 1971. After spending part of his >childhood in Canada and then returning to South Africa in 1979, he moved to >Western Australian with his family in 1989. Since then, he has become a >Melbourne-based poet, whose most recent book Barefoot Speech, (Fremantle >Arts Centre Press, 2001) won the Victorian Premier's Prize in 2001. John's >previous books are Burning Swans (Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1994); >Anachronisms (Fremantle Arts Centre Press 1997). His forthcoming work, >Loanwords (Fremantle Arts Press) is a collection of innovative poems >exploring the politics and cultural issues of Africa, Australia and >Indonesia - particularly the themes of violence, love, justice and the >effects of landscape and place on the human psyche. > >Everyone with an ear for, or interest in poetry is most welcome to come >along and enjoy an evening of poetry reading and discussion of all things >poetic. > >When: Friday 15th March, 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. > >Directions: Go through the pedestrian gate to the right of UTS Tower >Building on Broadway, and follow the signs. >For more information: Kathleen Evans 0402 079977 -- Alison Croggon Home page http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/ Masthead online http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/