Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly poetry online event, curated and hosted by poet, David Ades.
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Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly poetry online event, curated and hosted by poet, David Ades.
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September 26, 2021
Poets' Corner with Juan Garrido-Salgado
<p>Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly encounter with celebrated Australian poets, curated by David Ades. </p><p>Each month a poet is invited to read and talk about their poetry on a theme of the poet's choice. </p><p>Juan Garrido-Salgado immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry and imprisoned and tortured him for his political activism. He has published eight books of poetry and his work has been widely translated. He has also translated works by a number of leading Australian & Aboriginal poets into Spanish, including five Aboriginal poets for the anthology Espejo de Tierra/ Earth Mirror (2008). </p><p>With Steve Brock and Sergio Holas, Garrido-Salgado also translated into English the Trilingual Mapuche Poetry Anthology. The book When I was Clandestine was part of a poetical tour at the Granada International Poetry Festival in Nicaragua, Mexico and Cuba (La Habana City) in 2019. </p><p>Hope Blossoming in Their Ink was published by Puncher & Wattman in 2020. </p><p><br></p><p>You can purchase Juan Garrido-Salgado's books here:</p><p>Hope Blossoming in Their Ink</p><p>https://puncherandwattmann.com/authors/Juan-Garrido-Salgado/</p><p>Cuando Fui Clandestino/When I was Clandestine</p><p>https://rochford-pressbookshop.square.site/product/cuando-fui-clandestino-when-i-was-clandestine-by-juan-garrido-salgado/1</p><p>The chapbook - Dialogue with Samuel Lafferte in Australia 2016 can be ordered by email: blankrunepress@gmail.com</p><p>______</p><p>ABOUT WESTWORDS</p><p>WestWords is a literature organisation whose mission is to provide support and resources for the writers, poets, artists, storytellers and creators of Western Sydney, in the form of events, workshops, residencies, school visits, fellowships, groups, consultations and mentorships. </p><p><br></p><p>For more information, visit our website at https://www.westwords.com.au/</p><p><br></p><p>WestWords is proudly supported by:</p><p>* CREATE NSW –Arts, Screen & Culture</p><p>* COPYRIGHT AGENCY Cultural Fund</p><p>* The City of Parramatta</p><p>* Blacktown City Council</p><p>* Campbelltown City Council</p><p><br></p><p>Music: https://www.purple-planet.com</p>
August 4, 2021
Poets' Corner with Michele Seminara
<p>Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly encounter with celebrated Australian poets, curated by David Ades. </p><p>Each month a poet is invited to read and talk about their poetry on a theme of the poet's choice. </p><p>Michele Seminara is a poet and editor from Sydney. </p><p>Her writing has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals such as Cordite, Mascara Literary Review, Jacket2 Magazine and Australian Poetry Journal. </p><p>She has published two full-length collections, Suburban Fantasy (UWA Publishing, 2021) and Engraft(Island Press, 2016), and chapbooks Scar to Scar (written with Robbie Coburn, PressPress, 2016) and HUSH (Blank Rune Press, 2017). </p><p>Michele has performed her poetry, chaired panels and appeared at numerous literary events and festivals across Australia, including Newcastle Writers Festival, Wollongong Writers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, and (upcoming in August 2021) Canberra Writers Festival. </p><p>She is curator of the Manly Art Gallery& Museum Poetry Alive Readings, and managing editor of online creative arts journal Verity La. </p><p>Find more from Michele at her website: https://micheleseminara.net/ </p><p>You can buy Engraft, Scar to Scar and Hush directly from Michele's website: https://micheleseminara.net/shop/. </p><p>Michele's latest collection, Suburban Fantasy, can be purchased from UWA Publishing: https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/suburban-fantasy?_pos=1&_sid=efccd4a5c&_ss=r </p><p>______</p><p>ABOUT WESTWORDS</p><p>WestWords is a literature organisation whose mission is to provide support and resources for the writers, poets, artists, storytellers and creators of Western Sydney, in the form of events, workshops, residencies, school visits, fellowships, groups, consultations and mentorships. </p><p>For more information, visit our website at https://www.westwords.com.au/</p><p>WestWords is proudly supported by:</p><p>* CREATE NSW –Arts, Screen & Culture</p><p>* COPYRIGHT AGENCY Cultural Fund</p><p>* The City of Parramatta</p><p>* Blacktown City Council</p><p>* Campbelltown City Council</p><p><br></p><p>Music: https://www.purple-planet.com</p>
June 30, 2021
Poets' Corner with Anthony Lawrence
<p>Poets' Corner is WestWords' monthly encounter with celebrated Australian poets, curated by David Ades. </p><p>Each month a poet is invited to read and talk about their poetry on a theme of the poet's choice. </p><p>Anthony Lawrence has published seventeen books of poems and novel. His most recent collection is ‘Ken’ (Life Before Man, 2021). </p><p>His books and individual poems have won many awards, including the Prime Ministers Literary Award for Poetry, The Kenneth Slessor Award, </p><p>The Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal and the Blake Poetry Prize. </p><p>A new collection of prose poems ’The Side the Weather Does Not Love’ is to be published in 2021. </p><p>He teaches Creative Writing and Writing Poetry at Griffith University, and lives on Moreton Bay, Queensland. </p><p>______</p><p>ABOUT WESTWORDS</p><p>WestWords is a literature organisation whose mission is to provide support and resources for the writers, poets, artists, storytellers and creators of Western Sydney, in the form of events, workshops, residencies, school visits, fellowships, groups, consultations and mentorships. </p><p>For more information, visit our website at https://www.westwords.com.au/</p><p>WestWords is proudly supported by:</p><p>* CREATE NSW –Arts, Screen & Culture</p><p>* COPYRIGHT AGENCY Cultural Fund</p><p>* The City of Parramatta</p><p>* Blacktown City Council</p><p>* Campbelltown City Council</p><p>Music: https://www.purple-planet.com</p>
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