Sunday Poetry 2012
Poetry readings at the Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills
Featuring guest poets and an open mic.
For enquiries, contact Angela Stretch, coordinator:
mobile 0434 898 578 or email angela.stretch@gmail.com
Image: Brett Whiteley I have swallowed a monstrous dose of poison (detail) © Wendy Whiteley
Fourth Sunday of the month, 2pm
Further dates to be advised
Duration 1 hour
Location: Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills
Ross Donlon
Ross Donlon has published poems in newspapers and journals and was winner of the Wenlock Festival Poetry Prize, 2010, within the Arvon International Poetry Competition. He has read at festivals in Australia as well as at the Wenlock Poetry Festival, England. His latest book is The Blue Dressing Gown and other poems. Ross was born in Sydney and now lives in Castlemaine, Victoria where he convenes a popular poetry reading. In 2012 Ross will be artist in residence in Norway and in Ireland at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. He will be guest poet at the Wenlock Poetry Festival in England and the Strokestown Festival, Ireland. www.rossdonlon.com/
Sunday 26 February 2012 2pm – 3pm
Nora Krouk
Born 90 years ago in Harbin, China, Norah Krouk has written Russian poetry since childhood, switching to English while living in Hong Kong. Her Russian poetry has been published in various Shanghai magazines, New York’s New Review and Israel’s Yegund Yotseisin, as well as in the anthology Russian Poetry in China, published in Moscow in 2000 (winner of Russian Booker). In 1993 she won the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Jean Stone Award and won first prize for poetry in the 2008 Antipodes Russian Literature Festival.
Sunday 25 March 2012 2pm – 3pm
Toby Fitch
London-born Toby Fitch’s chapbook Everyday Static was published by Vagabond Press in 2010. His first full-length book of poems, Rawshock, will be published by Puncher & Wattmann this April. Currently Fitch is undertaking a creative doctorate on Rimbaud, Mallarmé and various poetic tropes, including mistranslation, concrete and absinthe poetry, at Sydney University. He hosts the monthly poetry night at Sappho Books and is the poetry reviews editor for Southerly.
tobyfitch.blogspot.com
Sunday 22 April 2012 2pm – 3pm