Hey-o! Today’s the day of the poets!
1 – You should all come down to Wakefield Press at 4 pm on Saturday 14 February to celebrate one of this state’s premier poets, the inimitable Geoff Goodfellow. There’ll be wine, a giant poster unveiling (!), and I’m pretty sure Geoff can be convinced to give a reading or two —
Ever read ‘The Seventh Doctor’? Yeah, of course you have. (If you haven’t, prepare to weep.)
2 – Jill Jones, author of the amazing Dark Bright Doors, has won the Victorian Premier’s Poetry Award!
Jill’s latest book, The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattman $25) has been described as ‘an invigorating and unsettling mix of materialist and speculative writing on the interconnectedness of life amidst the environmental and cultural turmoil of the 21st century’.
Read more about the winners here, and buy a copy of the gorgeous Dark Bright Doors here.
3 – Maybe not quite poetry, or news, but I feel like y’all have been so well behaved that you deserve some Jackson Browne for your Thursday afternoon:
You’re welcome.
I have very fond memories of poetry nights at the ‘Box Factory’ in the eighties. Port was the order of the day and a highlight was the friendly rivalry between ‘the prison poet’ and the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Bray. Two masters of the art from opposite sides of the tracks.
Poetry wars from both sides of the tracks? Sounds like the premise of a movie! Though we’ve always had a strong poetry culture in Adelaide – Friendly Street and Paroxysm make sure of that. And Wakefield, too, of course!