February 9, 2010
The submission period for Tasmanian poet Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe closes at the end of the month.
To submit, simply send 3-5 poems as word doc (old fashioned version, not doc x) to petermacrow@hotmail.com
Aside from verse, Peter also writes powerful haiku, and has done so for quite a few years. Stay tuned for a review of his latest chapbook ‘Spring Rain.’
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February 8, 2010
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_____________summer night
_____________a red seahorse
_____________in the clouds
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February 1, 2010
of course the swan
snatches all the grace from our words.
locked in a car
parked
against the walkway,
and staring at dull, black waves as
seaweed colonises sand
the clock winds
down another lunch break
and we’re looking
out opposite windows
mine frames a boy with an ice-cream,
and he’s really happy with it
but his brother watches on
as if missing something.
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February 1, 2010
The Karrinyup Writers’ Club Inc is celebrating its 25th Anniversary and we have launched a nation-wide writing competition. It has two sections – fiction and poetry – with a first prize of $300 in each sections.
For entry forms, contact: Ph: 08 9344 1757 or email: rogans1@bigpond.com
CLOSING DATE: 21ST MAY 2010
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
Short Story: maximum 2000 words – Open theme.
Poetry: maximum 60 lines – Open theme.
First Prize – both sections $300; Second Prize – both sections $150; Third Prize – both sections $75
Full details
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January 24, 2010
I move slowly
the way I imagine
a sea pig might
move across sand
if there was ever
an upheaval
big enough to heave
one up some one
thousand metres
to the surface
then stickingpink
to everything
the way a new band-aid
collects every scrap
of dust the moment
you drop it.
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Now I’m sure this question has been asked, but it’s too late now for me to trawl around the net and look, as I’m asking it in the next sentence. What do you think about hyperlinks in a poem?
They do bear some likeness to footnotes or ‘in text’ references used in print media, but the internet allows us to go a step further I think. A slightly comical poem like the one above, might benefit from the hyperlink ‘in text’ which then actually becomes part of the poem. For mine, you could probably chuck one in the title too, linking to the James Joyce novel that the name is a (poor) parody of.
Perhaps it could be quite effective when used in the same informative way, but for a poem of more substance than mine, something with social, emotional or political substance perhaps, like Ferlinghetti’s Tyrannus Nix? for one?
Or would all those hyperlinks just destroy the flow? Would they cement/or close off meanings in a poem?
Would love to hear what you think!
I move slowly
the way I image
a sea pig might
move across sand
if there was ever
an upheaval
big enough to heave
one up some one
thousand metres
to the surface
then sticking
pink to everything
the way a new bandaid
collects every scrap
of dust the moment
you drop it.
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January 24, 2010
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January 23, 2010
Once again the wonderful Jeremy Balius (editor of Black Rider Press) has sent me a link to an audio poem of mine, this is a new one called ‘Stillness.’
stillness – audio
Thank you, Jeremy!
(Once again, crank the volume a little as I didn’t master the recording)
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Submit to a Comment Box Poem (again!)
January 23, 2010Here’s a link to the details for the first call – and below you can see the finished project.
So for a bit more fun, I thought it’d be good to try another one, and open the second comment box poem