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States of Poetry 2016 WA Podcast | Introduction and 'Ghost Nets' by Barbara Temperton

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One 18 May 2016
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Barbara Temperton introduces her poetry collection, 'Ghost Nets' (working title), and reads the title poem which features in the 2016 Western Australian anthology.   Ghost Nets Evening, at the edge of the reefa ghost net snags my fishing line.Lead-core line is made to last and oftenbraided round plastic craypots tumbli ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 ACT Podcast | 'Charlotte's Grace' and 'Spring Fall' by Adrian Caesar

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One 18 May 2016
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Adrian Caesar reads two poems, 'Charlotte's Grace' and 'Spring Fall' which both feature in the 2016 ACT anthology.   Charlotte's Grace (For my grand-daughter) Coming in with stones from the gardenyour first impulse is to make them shine.Washing rocks, you call it, and give themfull treatment, soap and flannel and rins ... (read more)

The Update - May 17, 2016

ABR Arts 17 May 2016
My Fair Lady Opera Australia and producer John Frost have recruited a stellar cast for the August production of Lerner and Loewe's masterpiece 'My Fair Lady', to be directed by Julie Andrews, the original Eliza Doolittle. Eliza will be performed by Anna O'Byrne. Alex Jennings – thrice an Olivier Award winner, and fresh from playing Alan Bennett in The Lady in the Van – will play the insuffera ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 SA Podcast | 'Memory Lapses and Clues, or Don't Forget to Remember' and 'Bent' by Jill Jones

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One 16 May 2016
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Jill Jones reads two poems, 'Memory Lapses and Clues, or Don't Forget to Remember' and 'Bent', which both feature in the 2016 South Australian anthology.     Memory Lapses and Clues, or Don't Forget to Remember Amongst discarded data, twigs,plastic containers, fingernails –'The unconscious, at all events,knows ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 Podcast | State editor Lucy Dougan introduces the Western Australian anthology

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One 16 May 2016
In this episode of the Australian Book Review's States of Poetry Podcast, state editor Lucy Dougan introduces the 2016 Western Australian poets: Barbara Temperton, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Carolyn Abbs, Graham Kershaw, JP Quinton, and Kia Groom.   You can learn more about States of Poetry and read the full anthologies here. ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 Podcast | State editor Felicity Plunkett introduces the Queensland anthology

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One 22 February 2016
In this episode of the Australian Book Review's States of Poetry Podcast, state editor Felicity Plunkett introduces the 2016 Queensland poets: Nathan Shepherdson, Ellen van Neerven, Lionel Forgarty, MTC Cronin, Sarah Holland-Batt, and Stuart Barnes.     You can learn more about States of Poetry and read the full anthologies here. ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 SA Podcast | 'Oxytocin' by Kate Llewellyn

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One 22 February 2016
In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Francesca Sasnaitis introduces Kate Llewellyn who reads her poem 'Oxytocin' which features in the 2016 South Australian anthology.     Oxytocin On this bright morninga cruel wind is up.I don't care –last night I strode among the stars.Black swan shelter in the sandhills' lee,while pelicans stand preeningon the ... (read more)

The Update - May 3, 2016

ABR Arts 03 May 2016
Vale David Page Arts Update was saddened to hear of the death of Bangarra Dance Theatre's award-winning music director David Page, brother of artistic director Stephen Page, earlier this week at the age of fifty-five. Page began his career at Bangarra in 1991 and over the next twenty-five years created the music for twenty-seven of their pieces. Among his many achievements, Page received two He ... (read more)