Late last year a guy called Matthew Robertson contacted me to promote the Human Rights Torch Relay through the slams at The Front. Just a few months ago he sent me a link to an interesting item from The New York Times, on one teacher’s use of poetry in a Philadelphia school. It’s quite short [...]
Applications are open until 5pm Friday 30 January 2009 to enter Eat Your Words – an Australia Council for the Arts competition for people under 30 interested in writing about the arts. The top eight entrants get to attend ‘an intensive writing workshop in Brisbane, and collaborate with academics, visual artists and leading Australian arts [...]
One of Bonnie’s colleagues passed on a link to this article in the Times Online about Josephine Hart’s poetry events. There’s a wonderful quote from the article selected by Bookninja that’s worth repeating: Going to a library to listen to an actor read poems is not, she insists, an act of self-improvement. ‘It’s allowing yourself [...]
I’m going to be a bit unconventional and post about 2009 Traverse events out of chronological order – as you can see from the events page, there are a couple of activities planned for next year before the exciting Canberra Zine Fair. I’m doing this because I want to give people as much lead time [...]
Just letting you know I’ve added an events page so you can keep track of what’s happening through 2009. I’ll be posting much more about each event on the blog in the coming months – stay tuned!
