Fremantle Poetry Month launch
The food and wine is ordered, the performers are booked, the Mayor is preparing his speech notes and it’s all systems go for the launch of Fremantle Poetry Month at 6.30pm on 8 July 2010.
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POETRY MONTH INTERVIEW: Tracy Ryan
Editor of New Poets and award-winning author, Tracy Ryan, says new poets need to do three things: read poetry, practise detachment and refuse to be discouraged by rejection.
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Slam dunk for new poet
Scott-Patrick Mitchell, soon to be published in New Poets, won three heats and beat 50 competitors to take out the 2010 Perth Poetry slam.
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Fremantle Poetry Month Schedule 2010
ONLINE LAUNCH – 18 MAY 2010
Register with the Fremantle Poetry Month Facebook page or blog for interviews with poets, publishing advice from Fremantle Press’ Poetry Publisher and Commissioning Editor, weekly competitions and the most up to date information on events and happenings in Fremantle during July.
INTERVIEW: Scott-Patrick Mitchell
How does it feel to be included in an anthology alongside David Malouf and Dorothy Porter
Amazing. At the outset I never realised that the anthology would include such great writers. When I look at the final product, I’m a little overwhelmed at being included alongside people I not only respect but immensely admire (particularly Dorothy Porter).
Poets out of the box
Fremantle Press poet, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, and editor, Wendy Jenkins, have both been included alongside literary greats David Malouf and Dorothy Porter in a new poetry anthology called Out of the Box.
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INTERVIEW: Ross Bolleter
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls interviews Ross Bolleter about his new poetry collection Piano Hill.
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Ruined piano man launches poetry collection
Ruined piano afficionado Ross Bolleter will celebrate the release of Piano Hill with live musical performances and readings at Caffissimo in Mount Lawley on 27 November.
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NEWS: Shorelines 2 poetry winners announced
Scott-Patrick Mitchell, James Quinton and Emma Rooksby will feature in Shorelines 2, a collection of works by emerging poets to be published by Fremantle Press in 2010.
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INTERVIEW: David McComb’s Poetry
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls talks to Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy about editing Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb.
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