Eight talented and experienced poets from the group DiVerse respond to A Life’s Journey, an exhibition of Margaret Olley’s images at the SH Ervin gallery. Their poems will be performed in front of the relevant artworks, and the audience will receive chapbooks featuring the poems that will be read at the session. Artworks in one form can act as powerful stimuli for works in other formats: to watch this process in action is to watch the imagination at work. Members of DiVerse include Margaret Bradstock, Carolyne Bruyn, Marcelle Freiman, Jill Jones, Robert Kennedy, Paula McKay, Sheryl Persson and Louise Wakeling.
Participants
Margaret Bradstock, Carolyne Bruyn, Marcelle Freiman, Jill Jones, Paula McKay, Sheryl Persson, Louise Wakeling, Robert Kennedy (facilitator)
When
Sunday, May 24 2009 15:00 - 16:00
Where
S.H. Ervin Gallery National Trust of Australia Watson Road, Observatory Hill The Rocks Venue and Transport Info
MARGARET BRADSTOCK (LOCAL) MARGARET BRADSTOCK has published four books of poetry. The most recent are The Pomelo Tree, winner of the Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and Coast. Margaret has also won the Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson awards. In 2003 she was Asialink writer-in-residence at Peking University. Margaret is co-editor of Five Bells for the Poets Union, and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales.
CAROLYNE BRUYN (LOCAL) CAROLYNE BRUYN is a writer, professional archivist and freelance editor. She is the coordinator of the Sydney WEA Writers Workshop. Carolyne owns and runs EveryWrite, an Internet-based manuscript appraisal and editing business. everywrite.com.au
MARCELLE FREIMAN (LOCAL) MARCELLE FREIMAN is a poet and a lecturer in the Department of English at Macquarie University where she teaches creative writing and diaspora literatures. Her poetry has been published in journals in Australia and overseas, and her book, Monkey’s Wedding, was highly commended for the Marjorie Barnard Prize.
JILL JONES (LOCAL) JILL JONES’s latest book, Broken/Open, was shortlisted for both The Age Poetry Book of the Year in 2005 and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2006. She won the Kenneth Slessor Prize in 2003 for her fourth full-length book Screens Jets Heaven.
PAULA MCKAY (LOCAL) PAULA McKAY’s collection of poems, Travelling Incognito, was published in 2003. She is editor of the poetry e-zine Sydney Mosaic.
SHERYL PERSSON (LOCAL) SHERYL PERSSON is a poet and educator. Her poems have been published in literary journals, anthologies and educational publications in Australia, New Zealand, England and the USA, including Black Inc’s Best Australian Poems 2004 and 2005. A collection of Sheryl’s poems, Scarcely Random, was recently published.
LOUISE WAKELING (LOCAL) LOUISE WAKELING is a poet and teacher. Her second collection of poetry, medium security, came out in 2002. In 2007 she was the recipient of a Department of Education poetry research award. Her third poetry collection, paragliding in a war zone, was published in 2008.
ROBERT KENNEDY (LOCAL) ROBERT KENNEDY is a poet, composer and freelance journalist. Robert founded and manages the poetry group DiVerse. He has had articles published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Cordite, State of the Arts, Five Bells and Newswrite on the arts and social commentary.
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