Nine Australian poets have responded to nine paintings in the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection. Poets Jane Gibian, Robert Gray and Michael Brennan read their poems inspired by paintings in the NRAG collection.
Poets Paint Words II is curated by Peter Minter and Lisa Slade, in conjunction with Sydney Writers’ Festival.
JANE GIBIAN (LOCAL) JANE GIBIAN is a Sydney poet whose most recent collection is Ardent. In 2002 she was an Asialink Literature Resident in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her previous publications include The Body’s Navigation and a chapbook of haiku, long shadows. She works as a librarian and ESL teacher, and studies Vietnamese.
ROBERT GRAY (LOCAL) ROBERT GRAY is a recipient of many grants from the Australia Council, and he describes himself as "a creature of the Literature Board". Robert has published eight volumes of poetry, and his Selected Poems has been through six reprints after it was set as a high school text. A further revised edition of his poems will appear in 2010. His memoir, The Land I Came Through Last, concerns his eccentric relatives and some notable figures he has known. His poetry has been published in book form in China, Germany, Holland and the UK, he has read at literary festivals and universities, and has been a writer-in-residence on numerous occasions in Asia, Europe, the UK and North America. He has won major Australian literary awards.
MICHAEL BRENNAN (LOCAL) MICHAEL BRENNAN’s first collection, The Imageless World, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry and won the Mary Gilmore Award. Brennan’s second collection, Unanimous Night, was released in 2008. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo, the Australian editor of www.poetryinternational.org and director of Vagabond Press. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Italian.
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