My head is well and truly swimming with poetry… QPF 2010 was an unforgettable weekend, but more on that later… tonight is for dreaming.
There is however one thing I would love to share with you all. Poetry as we all know rarely gets alot of airtime in major newspapers, so it was a rush to be featured in a 6 page spread – Thrill of the Quill - in The Courier Mail’s glossy weekend liftout, QWeekend on Saturday (Aug 28).
In the article, Frances Whiting talks to QLD stalwarts, Bruce Dawe and David Rowbotham; one of the fresh young faces in Brisbane poetry, Zenobia Frost; UQP Poetry Editor, Felicity Plunkett; editor of Jacket Magazine, John Tranter and myself to get the lowdown on the poetry scene past, present and future.
Here’s a link to download the article – Poetry is not Dead_Courier Mail – Qweekend_28 August 2010.
Enjoy!
how exciting and interesting it is to read the article – best wishes to you all doing such wonderful things over there!
Glad to hear some poets are getting recognized.
I got the Courier Mail on Sunday and that is such an awesome story and photos – covers a lot of stuff and is a great promoter for poetry – wow, like mainstreaming poetry – hahahaha! Congrats Graham and the others interviewed.
Great to see this, G. Also, love Bruce Dawe’s extremely quotable “like breathing on paper” bit!
You fullas are CHOICE, ay?!
pretty damn cool I reckon.
“it’s too bloody hot in
Brisbane for berets.”
Awesome, Graham – congratulations indeed!
it’s true Ash!
thanks,
Nice photo me boy!
thanks ya big Rooster!