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Updated: 02 December 2007

the robert kroetsch award for innovative poetry is on now

The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry is on now. The winner receives a trade paperback contract with Snare Books, which includes publication and a $500 honorarium. The deadline for entries is 31 January 2008. For more info visit www.snarebooks.wordpress.com

ian potter cultural trust grants

The Ian Potter Cultural Trust makes grants of up to $7,000 to early career artists, including visual, performing and literary artists, among others. Requests must be for overseas post-graduate study, mentoring or private lessons, residencies or study tours with an educational focus. Closing date for first round applications is 25 January 2008. For more info visit culturaltrust.ianpotter.org.au

global arts village

The Global Arts Village is an emerging multicultural art centre in New Delhi, India. Residencies at the Village - combining artistic practice with yoga and meditation in a three acre village community setting - are available now, with applications considered and accepted on a rolling basis. For complete details visit www.globalartsvillage.org

salt magazine is relaunched as a free online journal

John Kinsella's Salt Magazine has been relaunched as a free online journal. Salt Magazine began as a print journal in Perth, Western Australia back in 1990 when the first issue appeared. Its history goes back to the early '80s when Kinsella had wanted to establish a new literary journal in Australia outside the usual educational venues and government funding sources. The magazine has published a wide range of international authors including Fleur Adcock, John Ashbery, Harold Bloom, Hélène Cixous, Carolyn Kizer, Les Murray, Marjorie Perloff and John Tranter. Issue 1 of the new online Salt Magazine features poetry by Jill Jones, Gig Ryan, Peter Minter, Laurie Duggan, Katia Kapovich, and Paul Hardacre, among others. Plus there's fiction, articles, interviews, reviews, and even some audio material. Check it out at http://www.saltpublishing.com/saltmagazine/issues/01/index.htm

luke beesley - poetry in motion

Hot on the heels of his successful collaboration with illustrator Jonathon Oxlade, soi 3 modern poet Luke Beesley has been profiled in Brisbane News (29 August - 04 Sept 2007). As reporter Justine Reilly puts it, "Regardless of where he writes, Brisbane poet Luke Beesley is always influenced by his hometown memories." Read more here.

vignette press (melbourne) to launch a hot new book - the sex mook

Bringing together the voices of over 60 young people, the SEX mook is a collection of articles, creative stuff and how-to guides presenting an unusual take on the topic of sex.

"The reason for producing this book was to create a space for people to candidly discuss their ideas and experiences. It was important to me that it be an honest and realistic representation of sex," says the SEX mook editor, 25-year-old Julian Fleetwood of Canberra. "But above all, we wanted the SEX mook to be entertaining and something totally out of the ordinary, both visually and in its content," says Julian Fleetwood. "We wanted it to be a celebration of sex but also a discussion point, something that looks at sex the way it really is - confusing, messy, indefinable, dangerous and fun," publisher Lisa Dempster of Vignette Press says.

The book takes the form of a mook, a magazine/book hybrid that looks like a high-quality magazine but contains no advertising. It features fun, pop-inspired design by Kill Design. Topics covered in the SEX mook range from the serious, such as herpes, non-consensual sex and child sexuality, to the lighthearted, like wanking and one night stands. A highlight of the mook is a special unsealed section in the middle. "The unsealed section is indicative of the mook as a whole, it's all very open and frank. Plus, it was a hoot to put together," Lisa Dempster says.

the SEX mook will be launching at the National Library of Australia (Canberra) on 26th October and at PolyEster Books (Melbourne) on 31st October 2007.

For a review copy, images or editorial and interview enquiries, please contact Lisa Dempster on: Phone: 0401 449 158. Email: lisa@vignettepress.com.au

otoliths issue six

Issue six of Mark Young's Otoliths has recently gone live. It contains work by Adam Fieled, David-Baptiste Chirot, Bill Drennan, Joel Chace, Julian Jason Haladyn, Spencer Selby, Kristine Ong Muslim, Juliet Cook, Reed Altemus, Michael Steven, Jeff Harrison, J. D. Nelson, Alex Carnevale, Mary Ellen Derwis, Alexander Jorgensen, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, dan raphael, Raymond Farr, Márton Koppány, Javant Biarujia, Philip Byron Oakes, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Rochelle Ratner, Sheila E. Murphy, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Jordan Stempleman, Ray Craig, Iain Britton, Paul Siegell, Andrew Topel, Ernesto Priego, Mark DeCarteret, Matthew Medina, Joe Balaz, Brian Foley, Luke Daly, Martin Edmond, Tom Beckett, Karri Kokko and ek rzepka, and has a cover by Geof Huth.

Stop by the Otoliths shopfront too, where print editions of the previous issues are available, along with an ever-growing number of books.

poetrix

Women poets are invited to submit up to six poems for the forthcoming issue of Poetrix. This issue will be launched at Federation Square in December. The closing date for submissions to Issue 29 is 31 August 2007. Guidelines can be found at www.sherrylclark.com - click on Poetrix. If you have any questions, write to Sherryl Clark at P O Box 532, Altona North, Vic. 3025, Australia.

more tranter than you could poke half a dozen sticks at!

For those of you who just can't get enough John Tranter, the good news is that there are more than one thousand pages of freely-available research material on the man and his writing. Check out the following links, and remember to take regular breaks!

Early writing: Over 100 pages of early writing and documentation at
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/index.html

Homepage: Over 400 pages of reviews, articles, interviews, photographs, biography, bibliography, etc:
http://johntranter.com/00/index.html

Contemporary work: Over 500 pages of poetry free to read on the new APRIL site:
http://april.edu.au/tranter-j-e/index.shtml

book launch: magdalena ball's sleep before evening

Poet and novelist Magdalena Ball will launch, and read from, her new novel, Sleep Before Evening, and talk about the development of the book from concept to creation. There will be time for questions, autographs, and plenty of food for thought. If you're in Newcastle on Thursday 30 August 2007, head for the Angus & Robertson book store (in the Newcastle Mall, 147 Hunter St, Newcastle) … the launch starts at 11.00 am, and is absolutely free - so don't miss it!

national poetry week in oz

National Poetry Week (Australia) is just around the corner and now is a perfect time to organise or register your events, festivals, poetry activities or ideas.

Are you full of wild ideas and restless creativity? Do you believe that poetry can soothe the savage beast of economic irrationalism? Do you dare to fall in love with language in public? Are you crazy about all things poetic? If so, come and help create this annual gathering of form and meaning in the nooks and crannies of culture.

To help, NPW Director Jayne Fenton Keane and her team have designed a great set of themes for you. This year's themes are: Invent; Cabinet; Blank; Forensic; Plastic; Ripple; P-Tunes; and Letters.

Jayne is looking forward to hearing from you now, so pop by www.nationalpoetryweek.com to find out more.

asialink's literature residencies

Applications for 2008 Asialink literature residencies are now open. Up to ten residencies will be offered for writers of all genres (including poets) to further professional development and bilateral engagement in Asia. Arts management residencies are also available for book industry personnel. According to Tim Denoon, Asialink Literature Resident to India back in 2001), the residency was "A perfect opportunity for any artists wishing to further the depth of their own work through cultural exchange, or to embark upon research or fieldwork for individual projects." Applications close Friday 7 September 2007. For more information check out www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au or call (03) 8344 3578.

luke wright's poetry party

Hailed by The Observer as "the best young performance poet around", Luke Wright is hosting a Poetry Party featuring 20 of the UK's greatest poets, performing for free in the beautiful surrounding of Edinburgh's Meadows.

Running from noon to midnight on 11 & 12 August 2007 in a marquee at Dr Roberts Magic (Routemaster) Bus, Luke's Poetry Party will feature John Hegley, Murray Lachlan Young, Lemn Sissay, Francesca Beard, Kat Francois, Roddy Lumsden, Aisle16, Tim Turnbull, Polar Bear, Tim Wells, Martin Newell, Clare Pollard, Tim Clare, Jude Simpson, Joe Dunthorne, Clare Shaw, and Jenny Lindsay.

philip nikolayev in london

Author of Letters from Aldenderry and Monkey Time, and editor of Fulcrum, Philip Nikolayev will be reading in London with six other poets.

Philip will read with Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Mark Waldron, whose first collections are forthcoming from Salt, along with guests Annie Freud, Roddy Lumsden and Tim Wells.

When: Friday 20 July 2007, 7.30-9.00 pm
Where: Poetry Studio, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden London (Holborn or Covent Garden tube)
Cost: £5 entry

persian / iranian literature

ArteEast (www.arteeast.org) has just launched a special issue of its online magazine, ArteNews (www.arteeast.dreamhosters.com/pages/artenews/persian_lit/), edited by Richard Jeffrey Newman, on Persian/Iranian literature.

The issue features a new story by Nahid Rachlin, a translation of a story by well-known director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, written not long after the Iranian Revolution when he still identified himself with the Islamic regime there; there are translations from the Shahnameh and Rumi; a new, long poem by Katayoon Zandvakili, who won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series prize in 1998; poems originally written in English by Farideh Hasanzadeh and Maryam Ala-Amjadi, two poets from Iran; and more. Please check it out.

books wanted for review in writing queensland

If you are a current Queensland Writers Centre member with a published book you would like reviewed in Writing Queensland, please send it to Katherine Lyall-Watson, Queensland Writers Centre, Level 2, 109 Edward St, Brisbane 4000. Please include details of where the book can be purchased and its cost.

queensland poetry festival filmmakers challenge

The Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word challenges Australian filmmakers, video artists and other multimedia practitioners to produce a short work (maximum length five minutes) which explores the possibilities of poetic expression via audio visual technology.

Poetry is defined broadly as memorable language. Your work might be a record of a poetry performance, a video text manipulation or something entirely different. The QPF is looking for work that displays creativity, originality and an understanding of possibilities of language.

A prize of $500 is up for grabs and the winner will be announced at the 2007 Queensland Poetry Festival (7-9 September 2007). A selection of entries will be screened at the 'Poetry on the Big Screen' session at QPF 2007 on Saturday 8 September. Visit the EOI (expression of interest) link on the QPF website www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com for full details and to download an entry form. The deadline for entries is 29 July 2007.

ASA medal nominations now open

The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is the principal advocate for the professional and artistic interests of Australian authors - protecting basic rights to freedom of expression, working to improve income and conditions, promoting Australian writing and literary culture.

Nominations are now open for the ASA Medal 2007. The Medal was inaugurated at the ASA's 40th anniversary in 2003 and is awarded biennially to recognise the achievements of authors (including illustrators) who have made a significant contribution to the Australian community or Australian public life. Full details on how to nominate are available on the ASA website http://www.asauthors.org.

another judith wright prize!

Those wonderful folks at Overland magazine have initiated an exciting new poetry prize: the Overland magazine Judith Wright Prize for new and emerging poets, sponsored by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. The prize features a major award of $2000, and two minor awards of $250, to be awarded annually. The competition is for poets who have not yet had a collection of their work commercially published. A maximum of three unpublished poems is allowed per entrant, with each entry to be accompanied by a $5 administration fee. All submitted poems will also be considered for publication in Overland.

Judith Wright, one of Australia's greatest poets, had a long and fruitful connection with Overland, and her last published poem (which appeared in Overland in 1999), was entitled 'To Younger Poets'.

Closing date is Friday 02 November 2007, and the winners will be announced in Overland 191, March 2008. More details, guidelines and entry forms are available at http://www.overlandexpress.org/poetry_prize.html

it came from the hills: harbinger

Harbinger is run out of the Adelaide hills and has been up since September 2006. The mag is staffed entirely by hungry-bellied little volunteers under the age of 30, who do their work without any funds for internet access, phone calls, editing time, or anything else. Apparently, the only time they see a square meal is when a dog vomits, and the only time they smell one is when a rich man farts. Likewise, none of Harbinger's staff or contributors are paid for their work, except in karma! Contributors can enjoy the satisfaction of being published, while the staff have the satisfaction of knowing that they are publishing the work of people who are often not given the opportunity to be published. One of Harbinger's aims is to produce an annual or biannual journal in hardcopy, consisting of the best work they have published online during that time (although a lot of this work will depend on grants and the kindness of strangers).

In the meantime, the editors are seeking submissions for issue #03 of Harbinger: Secrecy. If you have written, or can write about secrecy, they want your submission. You don't have to take the theme literally. You could write about secrecy as an aspect of morality; of politics; of an element of life in society. You could include secrecy as the premise of some character's motives. You could write anything you want to, so long as 'secrecy' is integral to your piece.

Artists are also encouraged to send their work (in jpeg or gif format) for consideration for the cover of the issue. Submission guidelines at http://www.harbinger.tk/ with the deadline being 28 July 2007.

frankie magazine - call for contributors

If you're a writer or photographer looking for a place to display your craft then consider getting in contact with frankie magazine. Before you get started it's best to email the editor with a brief outline of your idea (like writing an article about independent literary publishers in Australia, i.e. papertiger media) and the intended word count. As a general rule, articles should be no longer than 650 words per page. Once the submissions are commissioned, the complete article should then be emailed to the editor. frankie pays per word, depending on the writer's skill and experience, and payments are made two weeks after the magazine goes on sale. Visit www.frankie.com.au for all the relevant info (and tell 'em we sent you!).

papertiger media joins myspace

Finally, after much cajoling and peer pressure, papertiger media has joined the MySpace community. If you're a MySpacer, become a friend of papertiger media and stay up to date with all our projects - and share what you're up to with us. Whaddaya say - let's be friends? http://www.myspace.com/papertigermedia

new art news blog on surreal, fantastic and lowbrow art

beinArt.org just launched a new art news blog that will be posting articles (with images) on surreal art oddities, publications and exhibitions from around the world. This includes: strange art and artists we stumble upon, upcoming exhibitions, publications, sculpture, paintings, drawings, animation, art history, reviews, interviews, youtube footage, and much more. Please submit your strange art news, short articles and press releases with images for posting on the blog. beinArt.org is a very high traffic site, so it will definitely be worth your while if your submission is accepted.

new(ish) on rob's clever blog

Everybody's favourite Canadian poetry factory, rob mclennan, has some new(ish) stuff at his clever(ish?) blog:

The TREE READING SERIES, Ottawa
Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets, eds. John Barton and Billeh Nickerson
poem for some of the closer planets (poem)
Ongoing notes: early May, 2007 (UGLY: an instant spoken word chapbook anthology, Fredericton NB: Broken Jaw Press; No Press, Calgary; Ian Roy's Red Bird, Buschek Books)
Unveiling / Marianne Moore by John Taggart
Poetics.ca #7 (finally!) now on-line
Bill Knott and Ron Padgett, Proper Tales Press
C.D. Wright's One Big Self: an investigation
Marita Dachsel's all things said & done
Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry / Anarchy / Abstraction by Stephen Collis
the camrose review: a journal of lutheran thought
Ron Silliman's The Age of Huts (compleat)
Sonnet L'Abbé's killarnoe
festival notes, day seven & eight, we stay up late (or, "fear & loathing at the ottawa international writers festival")
Press Release ; Archibald Lampman Award merges with Duncan Campbell
Scott Foundation
festival notes, day five & five & sixsixsix

We love rob … visit www.robmclennan.blogspot.com to find out why.

what's black and white and red all over?

The new issue of Sleepingfish (0.9375) is packed with works of text and art by Irana Douer, Blake Butler, Matthew Simmons, Minju Pak, Girija Tropp, Deb Olin Unferth, Amira Hanafi, Annie Clarkson, Salvatore Difalco, Terese Svoboda, Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Jesse Reno, Pedro Ponce, J. Asher Lynch, Tim Horvath, Andrew Richmond, Jackson Taylor, translations by Toshiya Kamei of Rogelio Ramos Signes and Julia Otxoa, Chris Lawson, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Rob Walsh, Samuel Ligon, Eva Talmadge, Joris Vanpoucke, Oliver Rohe translated by Laird Hunt, James Wagner, Peter Conners, Kevin Sampsell, Ron Klassnik, Jason Porter, Robert Darry, Labrini Yassine, Cal Freeman, Rosana Fernandez , Sara Veglahn, J'Lyn Chapman, Erik Anderson, David Alexander McFarland, Peter Markus, Adam Golaski, Forrest Roth, Debra Di Blasi, duncan barlow, Daniel Borzutzky, Elizabeth Albert, and a 5¢ interview w/ Gary Lutz.

To celebrate its release, there will be two launch events:
20 May 2007 at 6 PM in Brooklyn at Magnetic Field: http://magneticbrooklyn.com/location.php
26 May 2007 in Denver at a vintage furniture store called Fancy Tiger: http://fancytiger.com

Whether you make the launches or not, there are some online features and samplings from the issue viewable at http://sleepingfish.net - you can get yourself a copy there for $14.00.

2007 queensland poetry festival

The Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word is Australia's finest annual poetry festival and incorporates Arts Queensland's Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry and The Thomas Shapcott Award for an Unpublished Poetry Manuscript, the work of an annual 'Poet in Residence', along with a range of exciting local, national and international artists.

The 2007 Queensland Poetry Festival seeks expression of interest from poets and other performers and artists interested in being part of the 11th Queensland Poetry Festival, 07-09 September 2007.

QPF would like to hear from both individuals and groups for single performances at the Festival, and for other projects in association with the Festival. While all projects should have a relationship to poetic language, QPF strongly encourages applications from non-poets wishing to explore the relationship between poetry and other art forms (i.e. performances with a music and/or multimedia focus, etc.). The Festival will also incorporate a discussion component and the organisers welcome proposals for events and activities intended to address the question of the place of poetry in the contemporary world.

Expressions of interest must be postmarked no later than Wednesday 14 February 2007 to be received no later than close of business (4pm) on Friday 16 February 2007.

To find out more and to download expression of interest forms go to http://www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com

diagram 6.6

Visit http://thediagram.com for the latest in poetic text, reviews and schematics in the latest issue of Diagram.

With text from Dan Albergotti, Stephanie Anderson, Danielle Aquiline, Deborah Bogen, Kristy Bowen, Roger W. Hecht, Melanie Jordan, Robert Hill Long, Sean Lovelace, Kevin Oberlin, and F. Daniel Rzicznek, along with reviews and schematics including 'Layers of Defense Hiding Shame Core', 'Male Infants May Have Different Smiles from Female Infants', and 'Profile of a Dysfunctional Family System', Diagram 6.6 is very fine indeed and you need to go and take a look.

e·ratio 8

The new issue of Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino's E·ratio is now online.

With poetry by MTC Cronin, Anne Gorrick, Marci Nelligan, Donald Wellman, Jody Porter, Nicholas Manning, Chad Sweeney, Christine Hamm, Amanda Laughtland, David Chikhladze, Jonathan Minton, and Scott Wilkerson, E·ratio is a papertiger media favourite and issue 8 is recommended.

Find out why at http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com

fulcrum number five

The fifth issue of Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, is a 544 page, perfect-bound, exquisitely designed, and competitively priced literary mammoth!

Edited by Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich, this latest issue has the special features 'Poets and Philosophers' and 'Poetry and Harvard in the 1920s', along with poetry by Stephen Sturgeon, Ben Mazer, Jeet Thayil, Vivek Narayanan, Glyn Maxwell, Joe Green, Landis Everson, Dan Sofaer, Billy Collins, John Tranter, Andrea Zanzotto, Don Share, Sean O Riordain, Greg Delanty, Michael Palmer, Kit Robinson, Brian Henry, Pam Brown, David Lehman, John Hennessy, Charles Bernstein, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Arthur Rimbaud, X.J. Kennedy, John Crowe Ransom, Alex To, Fiona Sampson, Fan Ogilvie, Richard Fein, Joyelle McSweeney, Justin Marks, Gerard Malanga, Alexei Tsvetkov, George Bilgere, John Wheelwright, Malcolm Cowley, R.P. Blackmur, and Dudley Fitts. But wait, that's not all! Issue five also includes essays by Eliot Weinberger, Peter H. Hare, Simon Critchley, Marjorie Perloff, Lisa Goldfarb, Pierre Joris, Raymond Barfield, art by Esther Pullman, e.e. cummings, and much, much more …

View the complete table of contents at http://fulcrumpoetry.com and why not buy a copy while you're there.

break michael me farrell ouch

That influential stylist Michael Farrell is back with a new book, Break Me Ouch.

Published by Melbourne's thuper-cool 3 Deep Publishing, Break Me Ouch combines poetry with graphics in a minimalist style inspired by The White Stripes. Think Klee does Charlie Brown. The frames are hand-drawn and spaced like lines or stanzas. Themes range from colonial beards to clouds, from Kanye West to Womack and Womack. It has a black centerfold, and sells for AUD$29.95. Find out more at http://www.3deep.publishing.com.au/productsearch.asp?keyword=michael+farrell

love in the place (website) of rats

Paul Hardacre has just signed a contract with Melbourne-based publishers Transit Lounge to publish his second poetry collection, Love in the place of rats. Written between 2001 and 2003, Love in the place of rats has been thrice-shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Award for an unpublished poetry manuscript … so its publication with Transit Lounge is long overdue. Find out more at Paul's new website www.paulhardacre.com