Poetry Poetics Reading
I am delighted and honoured to be joining Dr Kerrie Handasyde for a double launch featuring Professor Katharine Massam launching Kerrie’s God in the Landscape: Studies in the Literary History of Australian Protestant Dissent and Professor Vicky Balabanski launching my recently published Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics.
I hope all of you who are in lockdown in the eastern states are doing ok.
Jennifer Compton and I were scheduled to read in person in Canberra in June this year, from our new poetry collections out from Recent Work Press, but one of the earlier Melbourne lockdowns put that on hold until September. Now due to lockdowns in ACT and Vic, that event is online.
See the Facebook Event page for details: https://fb.me/e/eetNJiR7u
Details: Monday 13 September 2021, 7pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
I was to read as one of four featured poets at La Mama Poetica this evening. The three co-featuring poets were to be David Stavanger, Anisa Nandaula and Jocelyn Deane. I was looking forward to the event, as I suspect were all four of us. But I am relieved that, wisely, La Mama cancelled the event, with the hope that this is a postponement to a better time. The decision was made to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in Australia. In solidarity, I have made this recording of poems I might have read tonight. My thanks to Amanda Anastasi for the invitation to read at La Mama.
The poems I read in this video are titled:
‘Night Gusts with House and Flowering Gum’, forthcoming in Island
‘Things fall away’ published in Overland
‘Called up’ published in Not Very Quiet
‘Prelude to a voice’ published in my collection White on White (Cordite Books, 2018), available from the author (afelvey@gmail.com) or Cordite Publishing
‘Cinders’ published in my collection Kin (Five Islands Press, 2014) available from the author (afelvey@gmail.com)
‘The sense is porous to the thing’ published in my collection On arrivals of breath (Poetica Christi Press, 2019) available from the author (afelvey@gmail.com) or from Poetica Christi Press
‘Earth Interview in the Anthropocene’ published in Rabbit and hope for whole: Poets speak up to Adani
‘Grasp’ forthcoming in Verity La
David Stavanger’s new book Case Notes is available from UWAP
Anisa Nandaula’s Melanin Garden is available from Anita Nandaula
Jocelyn Deane’s The Second Person is available from Girls on Key
My new poetry collection, On arrivals of breath, is forthcoming from Poetica Christi Press in October 2019. Copies can be purchased directly from me at $20 plus postage. To pre-order, please email: afelvey@gmail.com and an invoice will be issued closer to the date of publication. Payment methods are Paypal or EFT.
A Melbourne launch by Dorothy A Lee is on Tuesday 15 October 2019, 5.30 for 6.00pm. Email afelvey@gmail.com for details. Poets Susan Fealy, E A Gleeson and Rose Lucas will read on the theme of breath.
A Sydney launch by Peter Boyle is on Tuesday 22 October 2019, 6.00 for 6.30pm. Email afelvey@gmail.com for details. Poets Michael Aiken, Anne Casey and Tricia Dearborn will read on the theme of breath.
Poets John Foulcher and E A Gleeson have offered generous recommendations. My gratitude to them both:
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