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AUSTRALIAN POETRY CENTRE

Poetry Salon: Readings and Conversation at 'Glenfern'

The Australian Poetry Centre is committed to
hearing poets read and discuss their work. This
new series of readings is intended to be a
regular event every fourth Sunday of the month.
We will be featuring a Victorian poet and a
national or international poet at each reading,
unless we are having particular, themed, special
events. Our first reading (on the third Sunday
for September only) is featured in a day of
poetry including a workshop by Katherine
Gallagher and a book launch for Mike Ladd. (see
details below)



Poetry Salon is curated by Robyn Rowland (Deputy
Chair, APC) and Teresa Bell, (Director APC).


The Australian Poetry Centre is pleased to
announce a day of poetry and the launch of Poetry
Salon: readings and conversation at 'Glenfern'.

Following Horace's definition of the aims of
poetry "to please and educate" the reading and
discussion (but not the workshop!) will be
accompanied by champagne and cake.

Date: Sunday September 16th


Venue: Australian Poetry Centre,
'Glenfern', 147 Inkerman St, East St Kilda


Phone: (03) 9527 4063




Day's Programme:

1.
Poetry Workshop with poet Katherine Gallagher 12.30 to 3.30 pm (after lunch)


Cost: Members $35, non-members $50
12-15 places only available (book ASAP by phone
03 9527 4063 or email
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.au 
)

Journeys - surprising journeys, special journeys, journeys not takenS

Using journey in its widest sense, this workshop
will focus on journeys and travelling as
stepping-off points into adventure, risk,
celebration - using the autobiographical to slant
in and explore other voices via writing exercises
and constructive feedback. Participants will
spend some time looking at work from a variety of
poets to show a diversity of approaches to the
subject.

For new and experienced writers.


2.
Poetry Reading and Discussion: 4.00 to 5.30 pm


Cost: $7 members, $10 non-members; champagne and cake will be served

with Katherine Gallagher and Alex Skovron

Following the reading, a discussion of their work
will engage the poets with their audience.




3.
Book Launch 5.30 pm


Mike Ladd, Transit


Publisher: Five Islands Press.


Launched by Robyn Rowland


Refreshments will be served.

In a combination of free and more formal verse,
Mike Ladd's new book of poems Transit deals with
crossings and journeys through both place and
time. Starting at dawn and moving to late-night
poems, the collection observes key transitional
moments in life: the transition from childhood to
puberty, young love, ageing and death. Ladd takes
us on physical journeys as well: on the highways
of Australia, and to foreign cities like London,
New York and Port Moresby. The collection
includes a CD of a remarkable performance of his
Rhapsody in Port Moresby recorded with saxophone,
bass and drums.




<http://www.katherine-gallagher.com/>Katherine
Gallagher is a widely-published prize-winning
Australian poet residing in London. She has
taught creative writing and poetry for many years
for the Open College of the Arts, Barnet College
and Jacksons Lane Centre, London. Her poems have
appeared in many anthologies and magazines and
she has four full-length collections of poetry:
Passengers to the City (Hale & Iremonger, 1985),
Fish-rings on Water (Forest Books, 1989), Tigers
on the Silk Road (Arc Publications, 2000) and
Circus-Apprentice (Arc Publications, 2006). She
has also published some chapbooks including The
Eye's Circle (Rigmarole, 1974), Finding the
Prince (Hearing Eye, 1993), and After Kandinsky
(Vagabond, Sydney, 2005), plus a book translated
from French, Jean-Jacques Celly's The Sleepwalker
with Eyes of Clay (Forest Books, 1994). She also
writes children's poetry and many of her poems
have appeared in children's anthologies.
Passengers to the City was shortlisted for the
1986 National Poetry Award at the 1986 Adelaide
Festival and she won the 1981 Warana Poetry Prize.

Alex Skovron was born in Poland and came to
Australia during his tenth year. He is the author
of four collections of poetry, most recently The
Man and the Map (2003), and a prose novella, The
Poet (2005), joint winner (with Kate Grenville)
of the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction. His
first book, The Rearrangement (1988), won the
Anne Elder and Mary Gilmore awards. Other awards
have included the Wesley Michel Wright Prize, the
John Shaw Neilson Award, and the ABR Poetry
Prize. His book-length collection of prose-poems
will be published next year, and a volume of
short stories is in preparation.

Mike Ladd is currently producer and presenter of
ABC Radio National's poetry program Poetica. He
has often collaborated with musicians, including
the groups The Drum Poets and newaural net. In
the early 1980's Mike travelled in Europe and
Africa. Whilst in Senegal, he made recordings of
the traditional poet-praise singers known as the
'griot'. In London he worked for the BBC and the
British Institute of Recorded Sound. In 2000 he
had a Churchill Fellowship in the UK, Ireland and
France, and in 2005 and 2006 he worked in Papua
New Guinea with local writers, actors and
directors, developing a radio serial in Tok
Pisin, which was broadcast on the NBC. In 2006 he
was awarded the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship at
the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and
was a guest of Venezuela's World Poetry Festival.
Mike has published 6 books of poetry, The Crack
in the Crib (1984), Picture's Edge (1994), Close
to Home (2000), Rooms and Sequences ( 2003),
Shacklife - a chapbook of selected poems (2006)
and Transit (2007).

<http://www.robynrowland.com/>Robyn Rowland has
written 8 books; 5 of them poetry, the most
recent being Silence and its tongues (Five
Islands Press, 2006). Previously Professor of
Social Inquiry at Deakin University, she was made
an Officer in the Order of Australia for her
contribution to higher education and women's
health in 1996.





Australian Poetry Centre
PO Box 284
Balaclava 3183
V I C T O R I A

+61 3 9527 4063
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The office is currently open
Monday, Tuesday, Friday
& weekends by appointment.

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