Tag: Robbie Coburn
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Writing Process Blog Chain
Really happy to be tagged by Devin Madson in the current ‘writing process’ blog chain – if you like stories of vengeance in a Japanese-influenced setting then you’ll love her books, check ‘em out here and visit her blog here, to see her response to the process chain. I also interviewed Devin on my fiction…
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All Features Great and Small: Robbie Coburn Reviews ‘Between Giants’
Originally posted on Rochford Street Review: Between Giants by Ashley Capes, Ginninderra Press. 2012 To read Ashley Capes’ poetry is like standing on your veranda or in your lounge room, or anywhere for that matter, and simply finding the poetry that lies in the every day. In fact, Capes acknowledges this fact in stating he…
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Timing the Storm by Robbie Coburn
Today I want to share a haibun from a fellow vic poet, Robbie Coburn. Here it is below, check out Robbie’s website here – along with great piece Loneliness. . Timing the Storm Change enters like an epiphany besieging my eyes. Thunder cracks the ashen sky open in a sudden break, thick sheets of grey hanging…
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between giants – blog launch – day five
Welcome to the last day of my blog launch! It’s been five days of poetry, poetry, poetry and I’m grateful to everyone who visited, commented, contacted me or ordered the book, and I’m most definitely grateful to Graham, Jane, Robbie and Mark, along with Alec Patric and also Stephen Matthews from Ginninderra Press whose fantastic…
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between giants – blog launch – day four
Next up is a double hit of audio, on the second last day of the blog launch, with ‘Stillness’ performed by Robbie Coburn and ‘St Mark’s Square’ read by Mark William Jackson. Check them out below Poet and performer Robbie’s first poetry collection, Human Batteries, both eloquent and experimental, was released just last year and…
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between giants – blog launch – day three
The next performance from between giants is of ‘Now in the Night,’ by Tasmanian poet Jane Williams. Jane is the author of five poetry volumes and a short story collection, her latest being City of Possibilities, which is an exciting mix of verse and haibun, but here’s one of my favourite pieces from an earlier…
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between giants – blog launch – day two
To open the launch, I’m thrilled to have Graham Nunn reading ‘Man About Town’ from between giants for the first performance. Click below to listen Graham is the author of six books of poetry, including one of my absolute favourites, Ocean Hearted and his latest, the beautiful The First 30 and Other Poems which details…
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