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		<title>The evolution of English literature in Hong Kong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Christopher DeWolf, CNN, March 10th 2010]:
The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival opens tomorrow, celebrating its tenth anniversary with a packed schedule of lectures, readings and discussions. It&#8217;s a big change from a decade ago, when the festival was a lonely outpost in the wilderness of Hong Kong English-language literature. These days, more people in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-evolution-of-english-literature-in-hong-kong/</link>
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		<title>Melina Marchetta and &#8216;The Piper&#8217;s Son&#8217;</title>
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Visiting author Melina Marchetta read from and spoke of her new novel &#8216;The Piper&#8217;s Son&#8217; at Fuller&#8217;s Bookshop this evening. She described the novel as a difficult one to write. &#8216;I found it technically easy to write but emotionally hard to write.&#8217; Marchetta added, she always says she loves the last book yet doesn&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/melina-marchetta-and-the-pipers-son/</link>
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		<title>Melina Marchetta at Fullers Bookshop, Hobart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[5pm Wednesday 10th March 2010
&#8220;From the author of Looking for Alibrandi comes her new novel The Piper’s Son. Five years after Saving Francesca, revisit the characters you loved as they negotiate the perils and pitfalls of life, love and (not) growing up.&#8221;
Multi award-winning Australian author Melina Marchetta will speak about her long awaited new novel. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/melina-marchetta-at-fullers-bookshop-hobart/</link>
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		<title>Hobart event: Ben Walter and Esther Ottaway</title>
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Thursday 11th March
5.30 for 6pm
Salamanca Collection Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart
A Salamanca Collection Gallery / Tasmanian Writers&#8217; Centre event
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/hobart-event-benny-walter-and-esther-ottaway/</link>
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		<title>Poetry: Geoff Lemon, &#8216;Coffee&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GEOFF LEMON
Coffee
Thursday. One day after
the most hopeful day
in the history of presidents
and I still feel
that whether I shoot myself or not
might come down to a spilled coffee
or a parking space.
Thursday. And the space between evenings
and mornings is dead air.
Mornings collapse into afternoons,
afternoons bring me drinks
in anything that’s clean
until the sun sets
and my eyes
can’t pick up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-geoff-lemon-coffee/</link>
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		<title>Republic Readings, Sunday 7th March</title>
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/republic-readings-synday-7th-march/</link>
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		<title>Wet Ink Short Story Prize 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the West Tent at the Adelaide Writers&#8217; Festival last Thursday, Wet Ink co-editor Phillip Edmonds spoke of the journal&#8217;s progress over the past few years, and in particular of the magazine&#8217;s new short story prize.
“It’s been a remarkable journey punctuated by the usual stresses that all small magazines experience: establishing a subscriber base, diversifying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/wet-ink-short-story-prize-2010/</link>
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		<title>Motherhood : too bad it&#8217;s your choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from 'Koraly Dimitriadis's Blog', March 3rd, 2010]:
As an emerging writer I’ve had my fair share of disappointments, yet I don’t hold any of the involved responsible – they’re all victims of an un-childfriendly society. When I redraft my novel, I usually take a trip to Lorne and write non-stop for a week. I have written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/motherhood-too-bad-its-your-choice/</link>
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		<title>Liberty belle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Anne Summers, Sydney Morning Herald, March 7th, 2010]:
Greer herself said of The Female Eunuch in 1970, in the summary introduction: &#8221;If it is not ridiculed or reviled, it will have failed of its intention. If the most successful feminine parasites do not find it offensive, then it is innocuous.&#8221;
More &#8230;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/liberty-belle/</link>
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		<title>A poetic word on gay spirituality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Will Day, Eureka Street, March 5th, 2010]:
The tragedy is that many non-sesh folk do not realise that, for so many of us, sesh is not merely a sexual orientation. It is a kind of &#8217;self&#8217; — a sensibility, aesthetic, intelligence, humour, spirituality and creativity — so that to try to muzzle it is to try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-poetic-word-on-gay-spirituality/</link>
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		<title>A hunger for more big ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jason Steger, Brisbane Times, March 2nd, 2010]:
When is a writers festival about writing and when is it about issues and ideas? If we&#8217;re talking Adelaide Writers Week, the focus is very much on creative writing rather than, say, the more prosaic topics such as the future of journalism or how to get published that seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-hunger-for-more-big-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Festival promise may be double trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Michaela Boland, The Australian, March 6th 2010]:
Hours before musician Paul Grabowsky raised the curtain on his first Adelaide Festival last weekend, South Australian Labor Premier Mike Rann unveiled a big plank of his party&#8217;s arts policy for the March 20 election.
Outside the Famous Spiegeltent, which has been pitched in Elder Park beside the Torrens River, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/festival-promise-may-be-double-trouble/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Islet&#8217; Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Island magazine (supported by Arts Tasmania, the Australia Council, and the University of Tasmania) is proud to announce the launch of its new online journal, Islet.
This new, free, quarterly online journal will go live from March 16, and will publish short works by emerging writers as well as work by emerging visual artists.
LAUNCH DETAILS
What: Launch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/islet-online/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine poetry readings : March 28th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a great start in February, the Castlemaine Poetry Readings continue on Sunday March 28 with two prize winning poets, Peter Lach-Newinsky (N.S.W.) and Jennifer Compton. (Peter was 2009 winner of the Melbourne Poets&#8217; Union International Poetry Competition.)
Both starring at the atmospheric Guildford goldfields pub, a few klms down the road from Castlemaine on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cstlemaine-poetry-readings-march-28th/</link>
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		<title>Out from Otolith : Mark Young&#8217;s &#8216;Genji Monogatari&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Genji Monogatari
Mark Young
60 pages
Otoliths, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9806025-8-6
$14.95 + p&#038;h
URL 
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/out-from-otolith-mark-youngs-genji-monogatari/</link>
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		<title>different lives, different loves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Possibly the most interesting observation I&#8217;ve heard at the Adelaide Writers&#8217; Festival this week was something Cate Kennedy mentioned in a &#8216;meet the writer&#8217; session, the way she can no longer be bothered holding back on doling out creativity because she has faith something to replace it will come along. [Wish I had her words [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2918/</link>
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		<title>Adelaide Writers Week, day three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Still Life With Cat', March 2nd, 2010]:
As has already happened several times this Writers&#8217; Week, I later felt a strong connection to something another of the writers was saying; talking late last night on the phone to Robert Dessaix as we discussed how his Thursday session might go and what sorts of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/adelaide-writers-week-day-three/</link>
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		<title>Day two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back at the Adelaide Writers&#8217; Festival. Not many poetry sessions programmed, but this one&#8217;s interesting, Canadian Roo Borson alongside Robert Gray, Jill Jones, Cate Kennedy and Craig Sherborne.
I find myself thoroughly enjoying Roo Borson&#8217;s lilting Canadian accent and wonder why I&#8217;m feeling so comfortable. The acquaintance perhaps of my couple of workmates, Canadian Dave One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/day-two/</link>
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		<title>East Tent, West Tent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haven’t experienced much of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival, though Jane and I did encounter Liz McQuilkin at Hobart airport on Sunday, taking the same direct flight across to South Australia. It&#8217;s Liz’s third Adelaide festival in a row, she tells us. I’ve no idea of what to expect &#8211; and get lost in the process [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/east-tent-west-tent/</link>
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		<title>Launch : Hobart Bookshop [Alison Alexander]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch, by Professor Henry Reynolds, of Alison Alexander&#8217;s new book, Tasmania&#8217;s Convicts.
Thursday 18 March, 5.30pm
22 Salamanca Square
All welcome to this free event.
The Hobart Bookshop
22 Salamanca Square
Hobart Tasmania 7000
P 03 6223 1803 . F 03 6223 1804
hobooks at ozemail.com.au
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launch-hobart-bookshop-alison-alexander/</link>
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		<title>Results of the Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[News from OOTA : Out of the Asylum Writers' Group]
First prize: &#8220;The Thaumaturge&#8221; by Christopher Konrad (WA)
Second prize: &#8220;Halfway Across the Desert&#8221; by Karen Dixon (WA)
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Highly Commended:
&#8220;Worship&#8221; by Mags Webster (WA)
&#8220;The Crescent and the Cross&#8221; by Paula Jones (WA)
&#8220;China Landscapes&#8221; by Glen Phillips (WA)
&#8220;The Balinese Sonnets&#8221; by Roland Leach (WA)
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&#8220;Dispersion of Seed&#8221; by John C. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/results-of-the-tom-collins-poetry-prize-2009/</link>
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		<title>Journal review : &#8216;Kill Your Darlings&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Samantha Bond, The Independent Weekly, February 26th, 2010]:
The inaugural issue of literary journal Kill Your Darlings  will be launched at Writers’ Week next Friday.
The website of the same name has existed since September 2009 and features a vibrant mix of reviews, author interviews, literary anecdotes and industry news. This first hard-copy issue goes a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/journal-review-kill-your-darlings/</link>
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		<title>Graham Rowlands : poem, &#8216;Monumental&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GRAHAM ROWLANDS
Monumental
Oh yes. It was a landslide. Another landslide.
A foregone conclusion but it’s already a shambles.
I knew it would be, said it would. Haven’t you heard?
Yes. The bottle of wine on the Government jet.
The Minister &#038; Co couldn’t resist the idea of
wine on the way back from the dry zone.
I don’t know. Cabby Savigong or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/graham-rowlands-poem-monumental/</link>
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		<title>The poetry of self-promotion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Joshua Corey, from the blog 'Cashiers de Corey', February 25th, 2010]:
To succeed as a writer—and I define &#8220;success&#8221; quite simply as being able to continue in one&#8217;s work—you not only have to &#8220;create the taste by which [one] is to be relished&#8221; (Wm. Wordsworth) but you have to create relationships and infrastructure and paths of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-poetry-of-self-promotion/</link>
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		<title>The poetics of rage : cant and Cantos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan M. Schultz, from 'Tinfish Editor's Blog', February 19th 2010]:
Yesterday I read the manifesto of Joe Stack (1956-2010)&#8211;after he set fire to his Austin, Texas house and then flew his Piper Cherokee into an IRS office building. I found myself for the first time in many years wanting to turn to Ezra Pound&#8217;s Cantos. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-poetics-of-rage-cant-and-cantos/</link>
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		<title>Out from Otoliths—Paul Siegell&#8217;s &#8216;wild life rifle fire&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally! After trials, tribulations, panic attacks, potential coronaries, all brought about by what Ron Silliman aptly described as the print process deciding to collaborate on the content of the book, Paul Siegell&#8217;s wild life rifle fire is out, later than its intended binary date of 01.11.10, earlier than its cautious rescheduling of 02.28.10. But it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/out-from-otoliths%e2%80%94paul-siegells-wild-life-rifle-fire/</link>
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		<title>Jena Woodhouse : two poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Signification
Nowadays it seems to me
that everything&#8217;s a sign:
this pelican planing
beneath pearl meniscus
cloud cover,
wraiths of morning rain,
to alight on a rotting pylon,
scanning the mangrove fringes
for flashes of silver;
three curlews watching me
of late from the shade
of a young melaleuca,
resembling three shaman-
eyed fates as I make my way
to the pewter river:
messengers in avian guise
who cross borders,
mercurial couriers, passing
from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/jena-woodhouse-two-poems/</link>
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		<title>The Melbourne identity: The former hub of Australia&#8217;s gold rush is now a City of Literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tony Wheeler, The Independent, February 13th 2010]:
The novel that brings Melbourne to life for me is always going to be Monkey Grip. Published in 1977, it kicked off the literary career of Helen Garner and the publishing story of McPhee Gribble. It&#8217;s all sex, drugs and rock&#8217;n'roll as Nora cycles the streets of Fitzroy and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-melbourne-identity-the-former-hub-of-australias-gold-rush-is-now-a-city-of-literature/</link>
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		<title>Poetry, Susan Austin : &#8216;Those who come across the seas&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SUSAN AUSTIN
Those who come across the seas
[On April 16, 2009, a boat carrying 47 Afghani asylum seekers exploded near Ashmore reef after being taken over by Australian Defence Forces. 5 refugees died and many survivors sustained critical burns.] 
Nation: now just a memory
Ocean: our deliverance or our grave
Open-ended: furious heat, incessant thirst
Navy: two warships gleam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-susan-austin-those-who-come-across-the-seas/</link>
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		<title>Melbourne my muse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liza Power, The Age, February 10th 2010]:
Like the embrace of a new lover, a change of city brings its own internal shifts. As the centre for Books, Writing and Ideas opens, Liza Power meets five writers who came to town.
More &#8230;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/melbourne-my-muse/</link>
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		<title>Book publishers warned to get moving on the digital revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Antonette Collins, ABC : PM, February 17th 2010]:
Publishers, literary agents, and booksellers were among those gathered in Sydney today for a major symposium on digital publishing.
With the release of e-book readers such as Amazon&#8217;s Kindle, publishers in the United States and the UK have already restructured to make sure they&#8217;re at the forefront of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-publishers-warned-to-get-moving-on-the-digital-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Cedric&#8217;s Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Cedric&#8217;s Walls&#8217; is the title of a small journal for younger Tasmanian writers that I set up some years ago, but couldn&#8217;t continue with. A print issue appeared in May 2001, featuring the work of winning entries in a competition sponsored by the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Tasmania : the 2000 Young Writers&#8217; Competition.
Anyhow, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cedrics-wall/</link>
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		<title>The dirt on the publishing slush pile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'virginia lloyd', January 20th 2010]:
&#8230; we all assumed that the vast majority of unsolicited submissions – meaning those manuscripts which had not already been vetted by an agent and deemed worthy of representing before a publisher – were likely to contain few hidden gems. So the revolving door of receptionists were trained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-dirt-on-the-publishing-slush-pile/</link>
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		<title>Do ebook readers do poetry any favours?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jill Jones, from the blog 'Ruby Street', January 21st 2010]:
I&#8217;ve had an ongoing interest in all the discussion around e-book readers for some years now. For obvious reasons. And I&#8217;m not sure all the current flurry about the new Apple tablet and the like will be a big advance.
In other words, I&#8217;ve never been convinced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/do-ebook-readers-do-poetry-any-favours/</link>
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		<title>Anne Kellas : &#8216;Mazerati parrot&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ANNE KELLAS
Mazerati parrot
This year my mountain slid to the ground
and fish flew in the air.
And I swam for my life through a city of fear.
No escaping this damned, this Götterdämmerung,
my life an opera score for crazed musicians.
My teahouse in the mountain’s still there,
but the birds have nowhere to sleep.
And the white heat this summer
makes glass, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/anne-kellas-mazerati-parrot/</link>
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		<title>Australian writers top shortlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Wyndham, Sydney Morning Herald, February 19th 2010]:
Australia dominates the shortlist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the South-East Asia and Pacific region, and can hope for another triumph following Christos Tsiolkas&#8217;s popular win for The Slap in the regional and overall competitions last year.
More &#8230;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australian-writers-top-shortlist/</link>
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		<title>Launceston : Poetry Pedlars Tomorrow Monday 15th @ 7:30pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
Just a reminder that the Poetry Pedlars Readings for February are on tomorrow upstairs @ The Royal Oak @ 7:30pm
Competition this month was &#8216;My Wild Side&#8217; &#8211; make of it what you will!
Please bring any original poetry books for sale&#8230;
Hope to see you there!
Poetically,
steve dAvis
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launceston-poetry-pedlars-tomorrow-monday-15th-730pm/</link>
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		<title>Chris Brown : &#8216;away from home&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS BROWN
away from home
bowties or butterflies:
the sauce of your choice.
an umbrella collapses.
the chairs are inseparable.
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this display a glass
bottomed gondola.
model train derailment
halfway into the mountain
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like restless in ‘the
method of immersion’
la lingua madre
surfacing for breath.
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bus stops pine needles carpet
the terra rossa tennis court.
imminent arrivals
text-to-destination.
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grammatically the tutor tells me
you cannot enter the walls –
stick figure stuck
in a stone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/chris-brown-away-from-home/</link>
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		<title>Sydney: seminar with Neil Astley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Sydney – Neil Astley will give an illustrated seminar incl. film premiere ‘Island Voices’ on Wednesday 17 February at UTS in Sydney.
RSVP essential:  writing@uws.edu.au
The UWS Writing &#038; Society Research Group in collaboration with the UTS Centre for New Writing presents an illustrated seminar by Neil Astley of Bloodaxe Books Island Voices: Contemporary Poets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/sydney-seminar-with-neil-astley/</link>
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		<title>Karen Knight: &#8216;Six Reasons&#8217; (for Axl)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KAREN KNIGHT
Six  Reasons
(for Axl)
He’s the heart
of a Neruda ode
when he bows
to new words.
He’s the conqueror
of a chaise longue
climbing as if gaining
ground on heaven.
He’s king of all wild things
following the hounds over
a realm of cushions.
His face, when sleeping,
is a laser etched crystal.
He’s a deep dream diver
steeped in consolatory kisses.
He’s the sun that dances
the day out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/karen-knight-six-reasons-for-axl/</link>
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		<title>Avalon Burning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark O&#8217;Flynn reviews Deb Westbury&#8217;s, The View From Here, New and Selected Poems
- Brandl &#038; Schlesinger, 2008. 123 pp. ISBN: 9781876040949
A collection of new and selected poems is a milestone in a poet’s career, one that should not go unacknowledged. Deb Westbury has a solid reputation as a fine lyrical poet, as well as being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/avalon-burning/</link>
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		<title>The right words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Anna Kelsey-Sugg, The Age, February 7th 2010]:
ZOE DATTNER:
But to give you an Australian title that has inspired me, then it&#8217;s Peter Temple&#8217;s Truth. It reminded me that writers need to really think about the way they&#8217;re going to tell their story; just because you have the English language at your disposal and an alphabet of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative legacy of a literary inheritance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Miriam Cosic, The Australian, February 6th 2010]:
Tranter grew up in Sydney, daughter of poet John Tranter and literary agent Lyn Tranter. The bookish environment seemed normal, she says, and literature just the business of grown-ups. From her childish perspective, what those bohemian adults really did was hang out, drink, argue and generally misbehave. Of her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/creative-legacy-of-a-literary-inheritance/</link>
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		<title>famous reporter 41</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking forward to the Adelaide Writers&#8217; Festival, figured it&#8217;s time to head across and take a look, relax for a week &#8230; I&#8217;ve never been. Though how can you relax around all the good writing and ideas a festival generates? Hope to take some notes on a few of the sessions&#8230;.
Grant acquittals time: a necessary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/famous-reporter-41/</link>
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		<title>Jacket magazine: An Announcement from John Tranter and Al Filreis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends:
We are writing with news of a transition we both deem very exciting. 
By the end of 2010, John Tranter and Pam Brown will have put out 40 issues of Jacket (jacketmagazine.com). It began in what John recalls as &#8220;a rash moment&#8221; in 1997 &#8211; an early all-online magazine, one of the earliest in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/jacket-magazine-an-announcement-from-john-tranter-and-al-filreis/</link>
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		<title>Govt axes richest Aussie literary prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[9 News,February 6th 2010]:
Australasia&#8217;s richest literary prize has been axed by the West Australian government.
WA Culture and Arts Minister John Day said he would discontinue the Australia-Asia Literary Award (AALA) following an external review of the award, in tandem with the Premier&#8217;s Book Award.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/govt-axes-richest-aussie-literary-prize/</link>
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		<title>Aerobics, Faithfull in festival lineup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Andrea hayward, 9 News, February 5th 2010]:
Haircuts by children, a play about communist Russia, and Marianne Faithfull are just some of the acts in store at Perth&#8217;s International Arts Festival (PIAF).
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/aerobics-faithfull-in-festival-lineup/</link>
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		<title>A tale of two islands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sally Cole, The Guardian, January 25th 2010):
When UPEI English professor Richard Lemm left P.E.I. on a warm day in August 2009 and arrived in Tasmania in the dead of winter 31.5 hours later, he felt rather befuddled.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-tale-of-two-islands/</link>
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		<title>Issue 16 of &#8216;Otoliths&#8217; has gone live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Otoliths rounds out its fourth year with another issue that maintains the journal&#8217;s reputation for excellent offerings across a variety of disciplines &#038; styles. 
Included in issue sixteen, the southern summer 2010 issue, is work from Thomas Fink, Satu Kaikkonen,  Nate Pritts, Jane A. Lewty, Craig Foltz, Michael Basinski, Stephen C. Middleton, Márton Koppány, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/issue-16-of-otoliths-has-gone-live/</link>
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		<title>This doc&#8217;s writing is readable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ian Cuthbertson, The Australian, January 26th 2010]:
Peter Goldsworthy is a charming, quietly spoken GP from Adelaide with a double life. 
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/this-docs-writing-is-readable/</link>
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		<title>A bridge too far shows we&#8217;re not beyond the cringe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Michael Shmith, Sydney Morning Herald, January 29th 2010]:
The &#8221;cultural cringe&#8221; is the term devised by late Australian social commentator A. A. Phillips to qualify postwar Australia&#8217;s delusions of artistic inadequacy. Although it is 60 years since Phillips coined the phrase, and although it could be argued Australia has come a long way in establishing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-bridge-too-far-shows-were-not-beyond-the-cring/</link>
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		<title>Authors&#8217; tributes: &#8216;His great theme was the moral rootlessness of American life&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Annie Proulx, Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates, The Guardian, January 29th 2010]:
No writer in history so mysteriously passed into myth, long before his death, as JD Salinger, whose last published work was a fragmentary prose piece titled &#8216;Hapworth 16, 1924&#8242; which appeared in the New Yorker (19 June 1965).
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/authors-tributes-his-great-theme-was-the-moral-rootlessness-of-american-life/</link>
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		<title>Book launch : &#8216;Flora and Fauna Guide to the Upper Florentine Valley&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop invites you to the launch of Flora And Fauna Guide To The Upper Florentine Valley, by Lily Leahy and Miranda Gibson. 5.30pm, Thursday 11th February, 22 Salamanca Square. All welcome.
The Hobart Bookshop
22 Salamanca Square
Hobart Tasmania 7000
P 03 6223 1803 . F 03 6223 1804
hobooks@ozemail.com.au
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-flora-and-fauna-guide-to-the-upper-florentine-valley/</link>
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		<title>LIterary gifts peppered with dark humour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Matt Buchanan, Sydney Morning Herald, January 26th 2010]:
The writer Peter Goldsworthy counts among his many admirers Clive James, a man with whom he has long had in common one standout trait: a multiplicity of gifts, literary and other. Today Goldsworthy has one more thing in common with James: an AM.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/literary-gifts-peppered-with-dark-humour/</link>
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		<title>Bush Slam, ABC-TV1 tonight : Croggon &amp; Kinsella</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H.G. Nelson guides a ute into the remote town of Blinman, South Australia accompanied by Melbourne poet and author, Alison Croggon, and Western Australian poet, writer and editor, John Kinsella.
ABC-TV1 8pm Tuesday 26th January, 2010.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/bush-slam-abc-tv1-tonight-croggon-kinsella/</link>
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		<title>Island ink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jim Day, The Guardian, January 23rd 2010]:
Laurie Brinklow has relished working in the beaming glow of Island authors.
The 51-year-old Charlottetown publisher has, for years, shared in the glee Islanders exhibit after having penned works to be bound between two covers.
Between 50 and 55 books of diverse description have been published since Brinklow founded Acorn Press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/island-ink/</link>
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		<title>The mark of a true hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Dmetri Kakmi, The Age, January 25th 2010]:
If, as Thomas Carlyle said, &#8221;the history of the world is but the biography of great men&#8221;, then the history of the last century or so must be a record of sports people. I came to this conclusion when a man on a train vociferously declared that Ben Cousins [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-mark-of-a-true-hero/</link>
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		<title>Review: &#8216;Heat 20&#8242;, Giramondo Publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
[Teri Louise Kelly, The Independent Weekly, January 14th 2010]:
Produced by the University of Western Sydney, HEAT has been rolling on for a few years now, in the process establishing itself as one of Australia&#8217;s most eclectic literary journals.
HEAT 20 continues the charter of diverse subject matter and author biogs, with essays, prose and poetry from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/review-heat-20-giramondo-publishing/</link>
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		<title>Measuring the cultural cringe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Johnson, Sydney Morning Herald, January 22nd 2010]:
The best joke about the cultural cringe I&#8217;ve heard was told to me many years ago by the writer Frank Moorhouse, who quipped that &#8220;Meanjin&#8221; was an Aboriginal word meaning &#8220;rejected by The New Yorker&#8221;.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/measuring-the-cultural-cringe/</link>
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		<title>out of the box in melbourne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Ruby Street', January 21st 2010]:
Announcing the February Melbourne launch of the ground-breaking anthology, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets, edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones (Puncher and Wattmann).
To be launched by Christos Tsiolkas and Kathleen Fallon
Tuesday 2nd Feb, 7pm
Hares &#038; Hyenas
63 Johnston St, Fitzroy
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/out-of-the-box-in-melbourne/</link>
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		<title>Poet&#8217;s Choice: Rachel Loden&#8217;s &#8220;Miss October&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Miss October&#8221; began in annoyance and ended somewhere entirely else. Hugh Hefner&#8217;s E! Entertainment television show &#8220;The Girls Next Door&#8221; debuted around the time of its writing, and (in clicking channels one night) I was treated to images of a then near-octogenarian Mr. Hefner indefatigably flogging the program in his robe and slippers.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poets-choice-rachel-lodens-miss-october/</link>
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		<title>Salt On The Tongue Poetry Festival : Goolwa, SA. 23rd-26th April 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Festival will include a stunning line-up of local, national and international poets:
Robert Minhinnick (Wales), Arianna Pozzuoli (Canada), Emma Jones (Australia via England), Glenn Colquhoun (NZ), Elizabeth Smither (NZ), Louise Oxley, Jordie Albiston, Brook Emery, Lucy Dougan, Jan Owen, Jeri Kroll, Jill Jones, Esther Ottaway, Grant Caldwell, Andrew Lansdown, Ron Pretty, Steve Evans, Kate Llewellyn, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/salt-on-the-tongue-poetry-festival-goolwa-sa-23rd-26th-april-2010/</link>
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		<title>Colonial Australian Popular Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colonial Australian Popular Fiction is an online bibliography and digital archive that gathers together for the first time a wide range of vibrant colonial writing that has previously been difficult to access. This archive is part of a larger ARC-funded project based at The University of Melbourne, Australia, which has been examining the history of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/colonial-australian-popular-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Edgar Allan Poe 60-year grave ritual broken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[CBC News, January 19th 2010]:
A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving roses and a bottle of cognac at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary of his birthday appears to have ended.
In a custom dating back to 1949, an anonymous visitor has come every year on Jan. 19 to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/edgar-allan-poe-60-year-grave-ritual-broken/</link>
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		<title>Conversations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Flashback to fifteen years in the past ...]
Hay: There’s nothing coherent on this tape&#8230;.&#8221;
Flanagan: &#8220;Neither enlightening nor interesting.&#8221;
Hay: &#8220;No, that’s not quite true. You said some great things about Demidenko, best things I’ve heard said about Demidenko&#8230;.&#8221;
Flanagan: &#8220;I won the Victorian Premier’s Prize Hazy.&#8221;
Hay: &#8220;You did?&#8221;
Flanagan: &#8220;It’s secret, till &#8230; October twentieth.&#8221;
Hay: &#8220;That’s great, fantastic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/conversations/</link>
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		<title>Shadowtrain # 32 [January - February 2010]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shadowtrain # 32 : January / February 2010
Jaime Robles
Robert Sheppard
Nathan Thompson
Ben Smith
Ashley Chantler
Nigel Pickard
Peter Gillies &#038; Rupert M Loydell
Reviews: Peter Riley, Carrie Etter, Lisa Samuels
Notes on contributors 
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/shadowtrain-32-january-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>Blake Bailey : Cheever : A Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Asylum', November 23rd 2009]:
It took me a few weeks to read Blake Bailey’s exhaustive and exhausting (770 pages tip to tail) biography of John Cheever.  Living with Cheever even for a month was no picnic: as his wife or children would tell you.  He was a depressive, conflicted alcoholic, notably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/blake-bailey-cheever-a-life/</link>
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		<title>Town 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Town is a literary magazine appearing at irregular intervals, based in Port of Spain, Trinidad. It publishes poems and very short prose in two formats: on paper, in broadside editions posted in public locations; and online.

The second issue of Town might be read as an oblique (and rather belated) response to the Commonwealth Heads of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/town-2/</link>
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		<title>Critical mass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Alison Croggon, The Australian, January 16th 2010]:
I&#8217;ve sometimes wondered if festivals are what you have instead of a culture. But that ignores how important festivals have been in stimulating and influencing the best of Australian work, by exposing local artists to their most exciting international contemporaries and through their roles in commissioning and staging local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/critical-mass/</link>
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		<title>To appreciate our identity, we need the right stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Louis Nowra, Sydney Morning Herald, January 2nd 2010]:
There was hardly a more loved and admired man than my Uncle Keith. Employed by the railways he lived and worked in country towns. He was brilliant at any sport, had a fondness for beer and spent as much time as possible with his mates. For many he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/to-appreciate-our-identity-we-need-the-right-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine poetry readings &#8211; February 28th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Ross Donlon]
after a break in january the castlemaine poetry readings will recommence in february, on sunday 28th at 3pm. 
2010 will feature an amazing collection of interstate and victorian poets.  interstate visitors include peter lach-newinsky (nsw), zenobia frost (qld) and karen knight  &#8211; with jules on percussion &#8211; (tas).
also highlighting the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-readings-february-28tth/</link>
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		<title>Asking writers about writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'virginia lloyd', January 10th 2010]:
Here’s a thoughtful piece from retired Washington Post literary editor Bob Thompson.  In “Writing about Writers” he recounts having to interview Joan Didion about her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking – three days after her daughter Quintana’s memorial service. “What was I supposed to do?” he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/asking-writers-about-writing/</link>
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		<title>Kindle: a world of literature in your hands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Helen Elliott, Sydney Morning Herald, January 12th 2010]:
I&#8217;m trying to explain to my friend why she needs a kindle. She&#8217;s a writer, and reader, but she&#8217;s reluctant. She loves browsing bookshops, she adores the physical feel of the book in her hand, the smell of the fresh page, the different font. Me too, but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/kindle-a-world-of-literature-in-your-hands/</link>
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		<title>Mad Men: it pays to advertise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Graeme Blundell, The Australian, January 9th 2010]:
[two topics covered by Blundell here, the first on the third season of the US television series 'Mad Men', the second on the H.G. Nelson-hosted 'Bush Slam' currently playing on ABC1: Ralph]
While the show features various bush poets and songwriters, the best known of whom are probably James Blundell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/mad-men-it-pays-to-advertise/</link>
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		<title>Absence of verse disrupts our rhythm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Christopher Bantick, The Australian, January 9th 2010]:
Publishers see poetry as poison as their lists continue to shrink. Schools neglect it. There is an assumption that poetry is difficult not just among booksellers, but teachers. We have no national poet in the way that Don Bradman is the national sporting icon.
More than a decade ago, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/absence-of-verse-disrupts-our-rhythm/</link>
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		<title>Out from Otoliths—nick-e melville&#8217;s selections and dissections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First cab off the rank in what is shaping up to be a busy year for the book publishing arm of Otoliths is a large collection from Scottish concrete &#038; visual poet, nick-e melville.
&#8217;selections and dissections&#8217;
nick-e melville
128 pages
Otoliths 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9806025-4-8
$14.95 + p&#038;h
URL
This is poetry from within an international concrete-typographic tradition to which it pays respect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/out-from-otoliths%e2%80%94nick-e-melvilles-selections-and-dissections/</link>
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		<title>Wordstorm 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordstorm &#8211; The Festival of Australasian Writing will be on 13-16 May 2010 in Darwin. The line up this year includes Tim Flannery, Alexis Wright, Andrea Hirata, Robert Adamson, Dina Zaman, Arnold Zable, Marcia Langton, Morris Gleitzman, Nicolas Rothwell, Jennifer Byrne,
Mary G/Mark bin Bakar, Don Walker, Mary Anne Butler, Mohamad Guntur Romli, Patrick Allington, Wendy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/wordstorm-2010/</link>
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		<title>Le Guin accuses Authors Guild of &#8216;deal with the devil&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Alison Flood, The Guardian, December 24th 2009]:
Ursula K Le Guin has accused the Authors Guild of selling authors &#8220;down the river&#8221; in the Google settlement and has resigned from the US writers&#8217; body in protest after almost 40 years&#8217; membership.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/le-guin-accuses-authors-guild-of-deal-with-the-devil/</link>
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		<title>Pressure to perform can take a heavy toll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Daniel Lane, Sydney Morning Herald, January 3rd 2010]:
Former Australian coach John Buchanan tried to gain a greater understanding of his players by asking them to write poetry or read a passage of literature at team meetings. Some players enjoyed it; others, including Shane Warne, thought it was a joke and openly resented at having a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/pressure-to-perform-can-take-a-heavy-toll/</link>
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		<title>On Reviewing: Annie Finch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[From the blog 'Lemon Hound', January 3rd 2010]:
LH: What do you think the purpose of a review is? If you also write about books on a blog, why? What does blogging let you do differently?
AF: The purposes of a review are to bring attention to a book and to help readers better understand or appreciate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/on-reviewing-annie-finch/</link>
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		<title>Cormac McCarthy and The Road to poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ed Caesar, The Sunday Times, January 3rd 2010]:
As any marketing guru worth his thick-rimmed spectacles will explain, The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 Pulitzer-winning novel, was always destined to be a smash bestseller. Consider its zippy premise. In a post-apocalyptic landscape where hordes of cannibals roam — pausing only to roast mutilated human babies on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cormac-mccarthy-and-the-road-to-poetry/</link>
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		<title>First things verse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Fergus Grieve, Sydney Morning Herald, December 29th 2009]:
When H.G. Nelson was approached to host an ABC television series about poetry, the man best known for his no-holds-barred sports commentary wondered if he was the right person for the job.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/first-things-verse/</link>
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		<title>Jaipur Literature Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considered to be Asia’s leading literature event, it is a celebration of National and International writers and encompasses a range of activities including film, music and theatre.
The 2010 Festival is from 21st to 25th January in Jaipur India.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/jaipur-literature-festival/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a disgrace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Charles Waterstreet, Sydney Morning Herald, December 27th 2009]:
We find it easier to use our hands to punch than applaud. Our actors have to be crowned in Hollywood before we bow down.
Disgrace. What&#8217;s wrong with this picture? This has been a bonzer year for Australian films but the omission from any category in both the AFI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/its-a-disgrace/</link>
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		<title>Signs of the times in modern rhymes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Paul Kalina, Sydney Morning Herald, December 24th 2009]:
Whoever &#8221;invented&#8221; poetry probably wasn&#8217;t thinking about places with underground opal mines or names such as Nuriootpa. Nor, for that matter, were TV producers thinking about poets or rural Australia when they jumped on the idea that busting the bulge, finding a soul mate or disciplining troublesome children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/signs-of-the-times-in-modern-rhymes/</link>
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		<title>On Reviewing: Jordan Davis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'LEMON HOUND', December 20th 2009]: 
LH: Have you been in a position where you have had to write about a book that you don?t care for, or a book that is coming out of a tradition that you are perhaps opposed to, or resistant to on some level? How do you handle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/on-reviewing-jordan-davis/</link>
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		<title>Eleni Sikelianos: For a Panel on Poetry &amp; the Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Poems and Poetics', December 18th 2009]:
Whatever the problem is, I am always a part of it.
My cell phone, my jeans, my salmon, my cotton sheets, the dyes to color them green, my car, my commute, my coffee, my hair color, my soap, my book, my lamp light, my laundry, my groceries and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/eleni-sikelianos-for-a-panel-on-poetry-the-environment/</link>
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		<title>Quadrant blames political decision for funding cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Margaret Simons, crikey, December 21st 2009]:
Another skirmish has begun in the tired old culture wars, with the conservative magazine Quadrant accusing the Australia Council of a “patently political decision” in cutting its funding from $50,000 to $30,000, thus threatening its literary content.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/quadrant-blames-political-decision-for-funding-cut/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Subscriber,
Last week the Literature Board of the Australia Council slashed its annual grant to Quadrant magazine by 30 per cent. The board reduced our funding from $50,000 to $35,000. This is a big chunk out of our very modest operating budget and a major blow to our publishing operations.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/quadrant/</link>
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		<title>Anna Mendelssohn obituary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Riley, 'The Guardian', December 15th 2009]:
Anna Mendelssohn, also known as Grace Lake, who has died aged 61 of a brain tumour, was principally a poet, and a poet like no other, but was also a painter, musician, actor and, earlier in her life, a political activist. She came from what she described as &#8220;a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/anna-mendelssohn-obituary/</link>
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		<title>Shakespeare&#8217;s daughters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rachel Cusk, The Guardian, December 12th 2009]:
When a woman in 2009 sits down to write, she perhaps feels rather sexless. She is inclined neither to express nor deny: she&#8217;d rather be left alone to get on with it. She might even nurture a certain hostility towards the concept of &#8220;women&#8217;s writing&#8221;. Why should she be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/shakespeares-daughters/</link>
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		<title>Why are the best bloggers women?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[James Bradley, from the Meanjin blog 'Spike', December 15th 2009]:
Despite the confected outrage that inevitably accompanies events like the Orange Prize (“Why isn’t there a prize for MEN’S writing”, “Women ask for equality and then demand special treatment!” etc etc (and no, given the viciousness of a lot of this stuff I don’t think it’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/why-are-the-best-bloggers-women/</link>
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		<title>Tone Poem #1: The Bride Speaks – Ashley Capes &amp; Jane Williams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[a collaborative effort from Ashley Capes' blog 'the poetry slave']:
now I have taken all the bread and gathered it
inside my whale-like belly
for another time, or for when they dissect me
or if I have children
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/tone-poem-1-the-bride-speaks-%e2%80%93-ashley-capes-jane-williams/</link>
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		<title>Coming back to myself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Helen Rickerby, from the blog 'Winged Ink', December 13th 2009]:
One of my goals for this year was to have finished a draft of Cinema – my movie-inspired poems that I hope will become my next collection. I’m pretty sure I haven’t done that – I think I probably have enough-ish poems, but not enough poems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/coming-back-to-myself/</link>
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		<title>Fanny Howe selected poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Rachel O'Neill's blog 'All Well Afloat', October 18th 2009]:
I think there is something to be said when a writer takes the things which most conflict and converse within them, and reactivate the intersection of these experiences; sensing always an action that is yet to be layered in time.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/fanny-howe-selected-poems-2/</link>
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		<title>CAL Scribe Fiction Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After much deliberation, Scribe is pleased to announce the longlist for the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize 2010.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cal-scribe-fiction-prize/</link>
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		<title>Sam Byfield reviews the APC New Poets Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sam Byfield, Cordite Poetry Review, November 30th 2009]:
Canyon by Andrew Slattery
Little bit long time by Ali Cobby Eckermann
Evengelyne by Helen Hagermann
Awake During Anaesthetic by Kimberley Mann
Australian Poetry Centre, 2009
I read the four New Poets chapbooks with a high level of curiosity and expectation. Published by the Australian Poetry Centre, these collections represent the rebirth of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/sam-byfield-reviews-the-apc-new-poets-series/</link>
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		<title>Bush Slam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had news from Geoff Goodfellow that a tv series he was part of &#8211; Bush Slam &#8211; is going to air from Tuesday 29th Dec at 8:00pm on ABC 1. It&#8217;s poets talking together, 6 episodes were made of the series. The episode Geoff&#8217;s in, filmed in Stanley [Tasmania] airs on Tuesday 5th January.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/bush-slam/</link>
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		<title>And they all drank banana smoothies sadly ever after</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Mike Carlton, Sydney Morning Herald, December 12th 2009]:
And travelling with them, as always, are the drum-bangers of the toxic media right. The likes of Melbourne&#8217;s village idiot, Andrew Bolt of the Herald-Sun, Alan &#8220;the Parrot&#8221; Jones, and that gaggle of sclerotic reactionaries clustered around the op-ed pages of The Australian and Quadrant magazine fly in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/and-they-all-drank-banana-smoothies-sadly-ever-after/</link>
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		<title>Roadkill and loneliness: Aussie truckers turn to poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Expatica.com, December 13th 2009]:
In Australia, poetry written by truck drivers, called dust poetry, is slowly coming into the limelight.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/roadkill-and-loneliness-aussie-truckers-turn-to-poetry-2/</link>
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		<title>John Kinsella &#8211; &#8216;Vermin: A Notebook&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[on the Poetry Foundation website [referred by Matilda]
It turned out (we discovered this the next day), that there was a fox hunt being conducted in the area. Fascinating, how private land, which people around our way defend with such passion, should change into public land without boundaries when pursuing foxes—the great hunter-capitalist liminality!—and that reserve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/john-kinsella-vermin-a-notebook/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine readings 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Castlemaine readings will resume on Sunday February 27th with Peter Bakowski and Nathan Curnow. Other guests for 2010 include from Hobart, Karen Knight (Jules on percussion), Peter Lach-Newinsky (NSW), Bronwyn Lea (Qld) and a Tasmanian special.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-readings-2010/</link>
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		<title>Print editions of the latest &#8216;Otoliths&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Mark Young]:
Just a note to say that the print editions of issues 13,14, &#038; 15 of Otoliths are now available from The Otoliths Storefront. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find them.

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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/print-editions-of-the-latest-otoliths/</link>
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		<title>NZ historian stable after truck accident</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sydney Morning Herald, December 6th 2009]:
Historian Dame Judith Binney, who was hit by a truck during heavy rain in Auckland on Friday, was in a critical but stable condition on Sunday, hospital staff said.
Dame Judith was crossing Princes Street, near Auckland University, just after 5.30pm, when she was struck by a truck. She was taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/nz-historian-stable-after-truck-accident/</link>
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		<title>john west (an edited note from gm)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John&#8217;s funeral went well enough. I read eight of his poems and stumbled through a eulogy. I also read comments from Karen Knight and Richard Hillman. The service was well-attended. I counted sixteen poets there which considering the short notice was very good. All in all, there were about eighty of us. 
I raised the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/john-west-edited-note-from-gm/</link>
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		<title>Rave review for Black Pepper&#8217;s latest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the SPUNC website, November 18th 2009]:
Perhaps the pick of the poems in this book is his elegy for a fellow poet, Margaret Scott. ‘The Fires’ also may be a poem of farewell to Tasmania, the island where he has spent much of his life. Flying out of Tasmania over a bushfire, he thinks of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/rave-review-for-black-peppers-latest/</link>
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		<title>Rocket Readings with Chris Mansell and David Musgrave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coniston, NSW
Special guest stars Chris Mansell and David Musgrave, plus the famous  Rocket Readings prize, all hosted by Linda Godfrey. Open section  readings have a three minute limit. This event will also be the SCWC&#8217;s  end of year celebrations, so do come along for a glass of wine and a  very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/rocket-readings-with-chris-mansell-and-david-musgrave/</link>
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		<title>Bookseller&#8217;s debut novel wins John Llewellyn Rhys prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Richard Lea, The Guardian, November 30th 2009]:
Evie Wyld, a bookseller from south London, has won the 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys prize with a debut novel set in Vietnam and Australia, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice.
In a year in which the shortlist included the winner of the 2008 Booker prize, Aravind Adiga, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/booksellers-debut-novel-wins-john-llewellyn-rhys-prize/</link>
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		<title>Launch: &#8216;famous reporter 40&#8242;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today : Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm for 6pm
Launched by Edith Speers
In this issue
Fiction [Michelle Cahill, Nicholas Rasche)
Memoir (Ted Sturges, Jennifer Compton, Bill Cotter, Michael Wood)
Launch speeches (Sarah Day, Nathan Curnow, Enza Gandolfo)
Blog post (Kris Hemensley)
Essays (Mal Robertson, Brian Parker)
Interview: with Queensland poet Zenobia Frost
Haiku from the 4th Haiku Pacific Rim Conference, Sept 09 &#8211; including new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launch-famous-reporter-40/</link>
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		<title>From the ALR editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stephen Romei, The Australian, December 2nd 2009]:
Remember that scene in Fawlty Towers where Basil says, &#8220;Zoom! What was that? That was your life, mate.&#8221;
While not being as bleak as Basil, this year does have a &#8220;where did it go?&#8221; feel about it.
It was an eventful 12 months in literary circles, so let&#8217;s have a brief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/from-the-alr-editor/</link>
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		<title>Exclusive Q &amp; A: Spanish author Javier Marias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Chelsea Bauch, Flavorwire, November 30th 2009]:
Flavorpill: A lot of literature tackles unanswerable questions and subjects — what is the purpose of writing for you?
Javier Marías: I think it was Faulkner who once said that when you strike a match in a dark wilderness it is not in order to see anything better lighted, but just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/exclusive-q-a-spanish-author-javier-marias/</link>
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		<title>funeral arrangements, john west</title>
		<description><![CDATA[tomorrow (Tuesday) 2pm Gateside Chapel, Chelsea Heights, Melbourne
[Melways map ref, Map 93, G 11]
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/funeral-arrangements-john-west/</link>
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		<title>The re-launch of &#8216;The Book of Hopes and Dreams&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Book Of Hopes And Dreams is a charity, poetry anthology, featuring many award-winning and internationally respected writers, including Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, Moniza Alvi, Alan Brownjohn, David Constantine, Cyril Dabydeen, Carol Anne Duffy, Ian Duhig, Ruth Fainlight, Vicki Feaver, Elaine Feinstein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Ades Fishman, Magi Gibson, Alasdair Gray, Tony Harrison, John Heath-Stubbs, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-re-launch-of-the-book-of-hopes-and-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Mok magazine 40th anniversary celebration!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Richard Tipping's press release, from the blog 'poetry &#038; ideas', November 19th 2009]:
The influential poetry/art magazine Mok (issue 5), first published in Spring 1969, is being re-issued in a limited edition to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Mok will be launched in Melbourne at Collected Works bookshop at 2.30pm on Saturday December 5th, with a poetry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/mok-magazine-40th-anniversary-celebration/</link>
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		<title>Emma Jones: the genuine article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Wilson, The Australian, November 28th 2009]:
Jacob Polley vividly remembers the moment he &#8220;discovered&#8221; Emma Jones, the new star of Australian poetry. &#8220;I just thought &#8216;wow&#8217;. Where did she get this stuff from?,&#8221; recalls Polley about the first time he heard Jones, then 28, read one of her poems.
It was 2006 and Polley, one Britain&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/emma-jones-the-genuine-article/</link>
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		<title>Alan Marshall Short Story Award 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nillumbik Shire Council invites writers from across Australia to enter this annual short story competition held in memory of the great writer and former resident of Eltham, Alan Marshall.
Judge:  Michael McGirr
Entries close: Friday 5 February 2010, 4pm
Awards ceremony: Saturday 29 May 2010 4pm, Eltham Library
$2000 Open Section First Prize and
$1000 Open Section Second Prize
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/alan-marshall-short-story-award-2010/</link>
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		<title>Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jenny Diski, London Review of Books, November 5th 2009]:
I initially I thought it no more than mildly interesting in a world full of more interesting events when I read that Roman Polanski had been imprisoned in Switzerland prior to being extradited to the US on a 30-year-old charge of rape. But, increasingly, in the news, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/diary/</link>
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		<title>I Like People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like people with scars, hit by life
4 or 5 kids, floppy livers, bruised hearts
hair burnt yellow by dye, I like people
with safety-pinned glasses, people
who wheel vinyl shopping bags, yarn
at corners. I like people who wear three day&#8217;s growth,
cotton dresses, sloppy cardigans, torn jumpers, who do not own
answering machines, mobile phones or house alarms.
I like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/i-like-people/</link>
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		<title>j west</title>
		<description><![CDATA[>Richard hillman rang me today, John
>West has passed away. Really sad,
>a true human being, honest emapthic.
>I know FR had a lot to do with him
>over the years.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/j-west/</link>
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		<title>Bridie McCarthy reviews &#8216;Going Down Swinging&#8217; and &#8216;Indigo&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Bridie McCarthy, from 'Cordite Poetry Review', October 5th 2009]:
These journals have quite distinct agendas. For Going Down Swinging (GDS), this involves ’storytellers – waging a lifelong campaign to take over the world, mind by mind’ as Lisa Greenaway writes polemically in her editorial to issue 28. This ‘campaign’ draws together Australian and international writers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/bridie-mccarthy-reviews-going-down-swinging-and-indigo/</link>
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		<title>David Prater interviews An Sonjae</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[David Prater, at 'Cordite Poetry Review', November 24th 2009]:
Brother Anthony of Taizé, known as An Sonjae in Korean, is a retired Professor of English who has lived in Seoul for the last twenty nine years. He is also one of the foremost translators of modern Korean literature into English. David Prater caught up with him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/david-prater-interviews-an-sonjae/</link>
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		<title>journal of british and irish innovative poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'santiago's dead wasp', November 19th 2009]:
&#8230; I have two main specific concerns. First is that I have no interest in making my writing practice academic. As I have said elsewhere recently my work is primarily libidnal, the product of an urge to write. It comes before any theorisation not afterwards. As an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/journal-of-british-and-irish-innovative-poetry/</link>
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		<title>On blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogs – or ‘weblogs’ as they’re more formally known – run the gamut of those focussing on personal expression to more formal, corporatised blogs seeking face to face contact with a customer. The Australian Book Review, for instance, has a blog, as does the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre. Blogging differs from passive entertainment by offering an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/on-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Four Irish authors on Impac longlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Eileen Battersby, IrishTimes.com, November 2nd 2009]:
The Australians are well represented by the invariably inventive Peter Carey for His Illegal Self; Geraldine Brooks is a strong contender with Peoples of the Book, a complex historical narrative based on a true story; while Helen Garner’s The Spare Room, a compelling account of a frenzied death as watched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/four-irish-authors-on-impac-longlist/</link>
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		<title>Many events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Maureen, from the blog 'Fieldnotes: Tasmania', November 24th 2009]:
Since I got back from the northwest I’ve taken in a rich mix of cultural activities here in Hobart. This may be a small city, but it’s culturally thriving and active. Beginning last Thursday I’ve been to a book launch, an art exhibition, and a talk by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/many-events/</link>
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		<title>A Miscellany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Maureen, from the blog 'Fieldnotes Tasmania', November 14th 2009]L
I’ve been meaning to write something about Australian book launches. They have some formality here, and carry a certain weight. It’s customary to have someone celebrate the book’s arrival by speaking about it at some length—not the publisher, but someone with related expertise or a relationship to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-miscellany/</link>
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		<title>Publishers win the day in a thriller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tom Dusevic, The Australian, November 12th 2009]:
Publishers prosecuted a spirited, clever, nationalistic, broad-based and expensive lobbying effort to defeat proposed changes to territorial copyright the Rudd government was considering. 
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/publishers-win-the-day-in-a-thriller/</link>
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		<title>How can a print publication survive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Deborah, at 32 Poems, November 18th, 2009]:
As publisher of an independent magazine funded by subscriptions and my checking account, I wonder if it will be time one day to hang up the print and move to web. I’ve mentioned this in passing and people look at me in horror. Often, these people are not currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/how-can-a-print-publication-survive/</link>
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		<title>Witi Ihimaera admits plagiarism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[NZ Herald, November 24th 2009]:
Iconic New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera has admitted that his latest novel includes plagiarised material.
Ihimaera&#8217;s new novel, The Torwenna Sea, is set in Tasmania during the 1840s and details the lives of Maori transported to the island off Australia as convicts.
But the novel contains passages re-printed without acknowledgement from a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/witi-ihimaera-admits-plagiarism/</link>
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		<title>Reading in Castlemaine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went along to listen to Sunday afternoon&#8217;s reading at the Guildford pub, Ross Donlon runs a good poetry event. Sixty-five or seventy people in attendance, not easy to secure a seat.
Listened to an open section of eight poets [good poems too] as well as the launch of a chapbook from BN Oakman and a reading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reading-in-castlemaine/</link>
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		<title>Books of the year? What kept you turning the pages?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Guardian, November 22nd 2009]:
Peter Carey – novelist
Kamila Shamsie&#8217;s Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition and an author equal to the task. Travelling from Nagasaki to Guantánamo, this very beautiful novel sets out to grasp the nettle of our modern history. The most utilitarian of us will find it &#8220;relevant and contemporary&#8221;. At the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/books-of-the-year-what-kept-you-turning-the-pages/</link>
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		<title>Blog battle (results)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Mathan Curnow, from the blog 'blog eats poet', November 21st 2009]:
Now any lesser poet might cry “foul” but with the deepest respect I must concede to Derek Motion, the winner of the first ever Australian Poetry Blog Battle. All pageantry and honour to you, Derek. May you continue your wild journey of the blogosphere, defeating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/blog-battle-results/</link>
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		<title>Small Talk: David Malouf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Anna Metcalf, Financial Times, November 20th 2009]:
What are you most proud of writing?
Imaginary Life. If you’re lucky as a writer you get one “gift” book where you break through into a different kind of writing. That was mine. 
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/small-talk-david-maloug/</link>
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		<title>all the remembered songs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Martin Edmond, from the blog 'Luca Antara', October 15th 2009]:
A few weeks ago, in the St. Vinnies around the corner, I saw a hardback copy, a 2nd edition, of The Vivisector for sale and almost bought it: but its spine was cracked and it had been written in in biro so I didn&#8217;t. Then, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/all-the-remembered-songs/</link>
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		<title>Under Government and Restraint: An Interview With David Howard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Tim Jones: Books in the Trees', November 12th 2009]:
Reading Richard Reeve&#8217;s 2002 interview with you in Deep South, I got a strong impression that you are largely out of sympathy with the current state of poetic practice in New Zealand – both with much of the poetry being produced by individual poets, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2504/</link>
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		<title>Derek Motion: TINA reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Derek Motion, Cordite, October 26th 2009]:
The gossipy session was called Sweet Staple High; it was all about the future of lit-publishing in Australia. What are the newer journals offering? Facilitator Chris Currie began things by asking for a show of hands. ‘Who has been published in Meanjin? Overland? Southerly?’ etc. There weren’t many hands going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/derek-motion-tina-reflections/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine poetry readings November, December</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday November 22nd: 3pm  Robyn Rowland and B N Oakman
Wednesday December 9. The Christmas Special.  Kevin Brophy and Myron Lysenko with a special guest from the U.S. (Note 7 pm Wednesday for December reading).
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-readings-november-december/</link>
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		<title>How to contribute to our cultural policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Marcus Westbury, The Age, November 16th 2009]:
What happens when the Federal Government puts a call out to the public to make suggestions about a cultural policy? After a few hours of reviewing some of the submissions, it would be fair to say that the quality and usefulness of the submissions so far have been decidedly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/how-to-contribute-to-our-cultural-policy/</link>
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		<title>I LOVE Tassie! so please help me out. I&#8217;m losing big time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Curnow
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/i-love-tassie-so-please-help-me-out-im-losing-big-time/</link>
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		<title>Fanny Howe selected poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Rachel O'Neill, from the blog 'All Well Afloat', October 18th 2009]:
It is an intriguing position to be in when you return to a book you have read a few times before and find that when you read if for the third time or fifth time you are reading a book you don’t remember reading before. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/fanny-howe-selected-poems/</link>
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		<title>Thank you notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Cate Kennedy, Varuna Alumni Writers' Blog, November 2nd 2009]:
If someone were to ask me the hardest thing about writing, I fear my answer would sound a bit petulant: ‘It’s the loneliness.’   Even when my day is going well I still miss, sometimes, the companionship of a job, any job – the chatting with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2489/</link>
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		<title>A very Melbourne collects literary prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Jason Steger, The Age, November 12th 2009):
Three years ago Gerald Murnane filled out an entry form for the Melbourne Prize for Literature only to discover that conditions stipulated half the $60,000 prize be spent on international travel. He immediately ripped it up. The much-admired novelist and essayist is also renowned as famously stay-at home &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-very-melbourne-collects-literary-prize/</link>
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		<title>Uncouth Poms beat us at our own game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Kathy Lette, Sydney Morning Herald, November 12th 2009]:
When I moved to England in 1988, Aussies were considered the Irish of the Pacific, a recessive gene. The person between two Australians was called an interpreter. An Australian in a suit &#8211; a defendant. It was presumed our main topic of conversation was how long we had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/uncouth-poms-beat-us-at-our-own-game/</link>
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		<title>Australians for Australian books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Mark Bahnisch, from the blog 'Larvatus Prodeo', November 11th 2009]:
In a second piece of good news to come from the Federal government today, the Productivity Commission’s mooted changes to the import regime for books have not been accepted.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australians-for-australian-books/</link>
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		<title>Water Works: an exhibition of poetry and paintings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Water Works : an exhibition of poetry and paintings by Anne Collins and Marianne Stafford at Chado The Way of Tea, Elizabeth Street, Hobart: 16th &#8211; 27th November.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/water-works-an-exhibition-of-poetry-and-paintings/</link>
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		<title>Rapper with a heart of a poet slams stereotypes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sarah Malik, Sydney Morning Herald, November 10th 2009]:
Omar Musa is rapping to a small but appreciative audience at the Word in Hand poetry slam in Glebe.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/rapper-with-a-heart-of-a-poet-slams-stereotypes/</link>
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		<title>Brown&#8217;s book of pictures and poetry perfect antidote to stress of Canberra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tom Arup, Brisbane Times, November 10th 2009]:
According to Greens leader Bob Brown, he and the chainsaw wielding, pulp mill building John Gay, chief executive of forestry company Gunns, have something in common &#8211; they are both &#8220;bushies.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/browns-book-of-pictures-and-poetry-perfect-antidote-to-stress-of-canberra/</link>
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		<title>Kathy Lette criticises top 10 list for leaving off women writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[news.com, November 8th 2009]:
Best-selling Australian author Kathy Lette has hit out at a leading industry magazine for failing to include the work of any women on its annual list of top 10 books.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/kathy-lette-criticises-top-10-list-for-leaving-off-women-writers/</link>
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		<title>Well red-head: don&#8217;t make me publicly humiliate you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Leigh Sales, The Punch, November 4th 2009]:
One of the funniest examples I’ve seen of somebody being cut off was at the Sydney Institute.  Several people in a row had stood up and made statements.  When it came time for the next question, the Executive Director, Gerard Henderson, gave a very sharply worded instruction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/well-red-head-dont-make-me-publicly-humiliate-you/</link>
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		<title>castlemaine poetry reading sunday november 22nd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another blockbuster at the Castlemaine Poetry Reading for Sunday, November 22nd at the Guildford Hotel &#8211; a wonderful pub with a great reading space &#8211; with Robyn Rowland !! and B N Oakman. 
As a bonus, actor John Flaus, he of the wonderful voice and presence, will launch Bruce Oakman&#8217;s, Chalk Dust: Poems from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-reading-sunday-november-22nd/</link>
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		<title>Tinfish triptych</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Mitchell Kuga, Honolulu Weekly, November 4th 2009]:
TinFish 19 / Since its inception in 1995, Tinfish Press has consistently been a spunky purveyor of local writing. Susan Schultz, a professor of English at UH–Manoa, started the small company to provide a platform for experimental voices from the Pacific. From the start, Tinfish has been more Ginsberg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/tinfish-triptych/</link>
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		<title>Reluctant author joins honoured list of White winners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Wyndham, Sydney Morning Herald, November 7th 2009]:
Beverley Farmer hesitated before accepting the Patrick White Literary Award, which she felt &#8221;was filled with ambiguities. I could understand some people might feel patronised or written off or that it was consolation for not quite making it.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reluctant-author-joins-honoured-list-of-white-winners/</link>
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		<title>Geek in Residence &amp; Digital Culture Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SUPPORTING A NEW BREED OF DIGITAL PIONEERS
Two pilot Australia Council schemes invite you to get creative in the digital era.
&#8216;Arts content for the digital era&#8217; (or &#8216;artsdigitalera&#8217; for short) is The Australia Council&#8217;s response to the impact of digital technologies on the arts sector, artists and arts audiences.
Some of the artists, organisations and audiences we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/geek-in-residence-digital-culture-fund/</link>
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		<title>The ABC and OZCO: cultural change and how [not] to adpt to it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Marcus Westbury, from the blog 'my life on the internets', November 2nd 2009]:
THE Australia Council and the ABC provide two radically different examples of how cultural agencies can deal or fail to deal with technological change. Where the ABC has spent the last decade experimenting, making and learning from mistakes and innovating with digital technology, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-abc-and-ozco-cultural-change-and-how-not-to-adpt-to-it/</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Caravanastan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald, November 2nd 2009]:
Then there is Bearup&#8217;s determination to keep away from the predictable tourist trail. He spends a day with poet Les Murray in the hills behind Gloucester; meets a Christian family home-schooling their children while driving around Australia; gauges the temperature of the logging-greenie debate in Tasmania; gets into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/adventures-in-caravanastan/</link>
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		<title>Launch : Lorraine McGuigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are invited to attend the launch of a collection of poetry &#8211; &#8216;Wings of the Same Bird&#8217; &#8211; by Lorraine McGuigan
BALLARAT LAUNCH: Dr Robyn Rowland AO
Date: Saturday, 5th December
Venue: The Ballroom, Portico Wine Bar,
203 Dana Street, Ballarat
Time: 1.30 &#8211; 3.30 pm
MELBOURNE LAUNCH:
Dr David Reiter, publisher Interactive Press
Date: Sunday, 6th December
Venue: The Hayden Raysmith Room,
Ross [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launch-lorraine-mcguigan/</link>
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		<title>Kindle hopes to ignite love of reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Simon Tsang, Brisbane Times, November 3rd 2009]:
The first thing you notice when you unbox the Kindle is that the screen appears &#8220;on&#8221;. It takes a moment to realise that the electronic book reader isn&#8217;t powered on at all. What&#8217;s on the screen are instructions for plugging it into your computer to charge it up. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/kindle-hopes-to-ignite-love-of-reading/</link>
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		<title>Curnow vs Motion [blog battle]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Nathan Curnow, from his blog 'blog eats poet', October 31st 2009]:
Dear faithful blog reader
There was a time when writers would quietly stow themselves away and compete for space in prestigious journals by writing the best piece they could. Or they held up another writer as some kind of creative nemesis, a necessary yardstick for their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/curnow-vs-motion-blog-battle/</link>
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		<title>Motion silences Curnow (Blog Battle)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Derek Motion, from his blog 'Typing Space', November 1st 2009]:
I am pleased to announce here what is without doubt an Australian &#038; worldwide first: a poetry blogging battle to the death.
These are the rules, proposed by the poet, playwright, flaneur, &#038; sometimes-blogger, Nathan Curnow (&#038; then carefully checked ny myself, of course):
The tally is of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2447/</link>
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		<title>A pair of crucial cultural priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Christopher Pearson, The Australian, October 31st 2009]:
In his address to the National Press Club on Tuesday, Peter Garrett called for a debate on Australia&#8217;s cultural policy between now and 2020. He asked that it be a bipartisan conversation rather than one bogged down in the culture wars debates of recent years. Speaking as a long-serving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-pair-of-crucial-cultural-priorities/</link>
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		<title>Tales of outsiders take the honours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Wyndham, Brisbane Times, November 2nd 2009]:
THE venue might have been a clue. Against the creaking masts of Sydney&#8217;s National Maritime Museum, The Boat by Nam Le was named winner of the $100,000 Prime Minister&#8217;s Literary Award for fiction yesterday.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2441/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming launch events : Hobart Bookshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop warmly invites you to the following events:
Thursday Nov 19th, 5.30pm, at The Hobart Bookshop: Kathryn Lomer will launch Anne Morgan&#8217;s new book, A Reckless Descent from Eternity.
Tuesday Nov 24th, 5.30pm, at The Hobart Bookshop: the launch of Molly Guy&#8217;s new book, Reading Between the Lines.
And don&#8217;t forget to join us in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/upcoming-launch-events-hobart-bookshop/</link>
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		<title>Literary honour &#8216;reward for a lot of hard yakka&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[James Ihaka, The New Zealand Herald, October 28th 2009]:
Political commentator and academic Ranginui Walker says people these days think he has mellowed.
But the 77-year-old from Te Whakatohea, who was last night honoured for his non-fiction work at the 2009 Prime Minister&#8217;s Awards for Literary Achievement, says he hasn&#8217;t changed.
&#8220;People&#8217;s perceptions have changed as they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/literary-honour-reward-for-a-lot-of-hard-yakka/</link>
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		<title>Issue 15 of &#8216;Otoliths&#8217; is now live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a switch on the normal All Hallows&#8217; Eve tradition, the someone who&#8217;s come knocking at your door is bringing *you* candy. No tricks, just treats. Issue 15, the southern spring 2009 issue, of Otoliths has just gone live, &#038; has in its basket a wondrous variety of text &#038; visuals—sometimes both—from Ray Craig, Crag [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/issue-15-of-otoliths-is-now-live/</link>
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		<title>The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Zafar Anjum, Writers Connect, October 19th 2009]:
It can be argued that Southeast Asian Writing in English has not achieved as much attention as African Writing in English or Indian Writing in English, even though English as a language reached most parts of the world wave after wave as a result of colonialism in the 19th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-routledge-concise-history-of-southeast-asian-writing-in-english/</link>
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		<title>Questions of / on Australian poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Adam Aitken, from 'Adam in Cambodia', October 20th 2009]: 
I still feel a million miles from Oz poetry, but since I am a player I feel I should attempt to answer back, though clearly I want to speak from the place of St Victor and perhaps I find it comforting to take on the role [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/questions-of-on-australian-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Finding a home in fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Dave Tacon, The Age, October 31st 2009]:
At just 30, Vietnam-born, Melbourne-raised writer Nam Le has been blessed with early success. The Boat, his debut collection of short stories, was published last year to a wave of international critical acclaim. In addition, Le has been awarded several major awards, including the Dylan Thomas Prize &#8211; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/finding-a-home-in-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Varuna Publisher Publication Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the Picaro Press website]
We’re delighted to announce (to those who haven’t heard already) that Picaro Press has been selected to hold up the poetry end of Varuna’s new Publisher Partnership Program. Basically, it’ll involve publication of up to three new titles each year, supported by national distribution, commitments from selected booksellers, publicity &#8230; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/varuna-publisher-publication-program/</link>
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		<title>New website, Australian Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australian Book Review&#8217;s website has been fully redeveloped in keeping with recent scrutiny of the magazine&#8217;s design. The new site boasts several new features, including easy online subscription options and a free archive of recent reviews.
In order to experience the new site in full, existing bookmarks for ABR on the web need to be updated. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/new-website-australian-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Writer returns to deliver inaugural talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Gia Metherell, The Canberra Times, October 23rd, 2009]:
&#8221;We&#8217;re proud when Kevin [Rudd] speaks Mandarin. Contrast this with [US President] Barack Obama, yet to make a speech in Bahasa, a language he speaks fluently; in the US, it wouldn&#8217;t play so well &#8230; We have some xenophobes too &#8230; But most of us aren&#8217;t that way.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/writer-returns-to-deliver-inaugural-talk/</link>
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		<title>Speech By The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP, A National Cultural Policy To 2020</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Garrett, The Government Monitor, October 27th, 2009]:
Most of us have a reference point of creativity which touches a chord for us, gives us meaning, connects us to our place: some lines of verse by Judith Wright we learned at school, a scene from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, a Namatjira or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/speech-by-the-hon-peter-garrett-am-mp-a-national-cultural-policy-to-2020/</link>
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		<title>Authors angered by award changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stacey Wood, stuff.co.nz, October 24th, 2009]:
Award-winning authors have launched a war of words against book publishers and the organisers of our top literary awards.
From next year, the number of shortlisted works in the NZ Post Book Awards – formerly the Montana Book Awards – will be reduced by 10 and the number of categories cut [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/authors-angered-by-award-changes/</link>
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		<title>The literature of Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jane Rogers, Financial Times, October 26th, 2009]:
Room for more, of course, can only be made by winnowing. At the book’s London launch, Clive James objected that it was too heavily freighted with Aboriginal writing. I did not find it so. Certainly a proportion of the Aboriginal writing does not set out to qualify as “literature”, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-literature-of-australia/</link>
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		<title>Poetry tour roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Belinda Jeffrey', October 5th, 2009]:
Turns out that Launceston did exist and the iphone is not the be-all tool of the modern world, it does have it’s glitches. Not only does Launceston exist, its poetry scene is alive and well-and-truly-kicking butt.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-tour-roundup/</link>
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		<title>To honour a battler, literary peace breaks out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Patricia Cohen, New York Times, October 21st, 2009]:
“PEN was more or less a literary tea party with a small budget and limited influence in the book and academic industry,” he explained. Mailer put it on the map, he said, by organizing an international writers’ conference and tapping his wealthy friends for support. “Mailer being Mailer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/to-honour-a-battler-literary-peace-breaks-out/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Salt&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Salt&#8217; has a history of quite a big presence in the Forward shortlists, why do you think this is?
L.K: I think, mid-decade, Salt took risks on a lot of newish writers at a time when it wasn’t so fashionable to do so. When a lot of publishers were closing ranks a little. Partly just to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/salt/</link>
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		<title>Launch: Sarah Day&#8217;s collection &#8216;Grass Notes&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you and your friends to the launch of Sarah Day’s new book, Grass Notes.
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 5.30pm @ The Hobart Bookshop 22 Salamanca Place Hobart.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launch-sarah-days-collection-grass-notes/</link>
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		<title>42 reasons to miss Douglas Adams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[David Astle, from the blog 'Cassowary Crossing', October 23rd, 209]:
Douglas Adams is releasing a new book this month – not bad going for a dead bloke. To be pedantic, the Douglas Adams Franchise is doing the releasing, under the cultish Hitchhiker banner, but that’s still a fair effort for a soul long gone and dearly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/42-reasons-to-miss-douglas-adams/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating Aravind Adiga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Hindustan Times, October 24th, 2009]:
The 2008 Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga turns 35 today.
Adiga, who was born in Madras in 1974 and now lives in Mumbai, is the fourth Indian-born author to win the Booker Prize, the others being Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. Another winner VS Naipaul is of Indian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/celebrating-aravind-adiga/</link>
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		<title>Alice Munro reveals she&#8217;s had a fight with cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press, October 22nd, 2009]:
One of the world&#8217;s most respected authors, Canadian Alice Munro, has revealed she&#8217;s had a recent fight with cancer.
Munro, 78, who earlier this year was named the third recipient of the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, honouring her life&#8217;s work, briefly alluded to her health Wednesday night at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/alice-munro-reveals-shes-had-a-fight-with-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine Poetry Reading: Sunday October 25th 3pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poetry at the Guildford &#8211; Sunday, October 25th @ 3:00pm
 Triple Poetry Treat &#8211; a celebration of the poets of Central Victoria. 
Three outstanding poets from the Golden Triangle of Poetry.
Rhonda Pohlke  (Ararat)
Rob Wallis (Castlemaine)
Tru Dowling (Bendigo)
Gold Coin Donation.
Open Section &#8211; 2-3 minutes. Best poem in the Open Section wins the Castlemaine Cup
Book and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-reading-sunday-october-25th-3pm/</link>
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		<title>Zhongjian: Midway Writers with Boey Kim Cheng and Debbie Lim in conversation with Michelle Cahill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poets Boey Kim Cheng and Debbie Lim will give a reading of their work and discuss their poetic practice and how it has been influenced by working across cultures with michelle Cahill from Mascara Literary Review.
Presented by Wollonogng City Gallery and South Coast Writers Centre
When: 2pm, Sunday 25 October 2009
Where: Wollongong City Gallery, corner of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/zhongjian-midway-writers-with-boey-kim-cheng-and-debbie-lim-in-conversation-with-michelle-cahill/</link>
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		<title>What makes a good poem two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Stephen Romei, 'A Pair of Ragged Claws', ALR blog, October 20th 2009]:
Speaking of good poems, I’ve just received advanced copies of The Best Australian Poetry 2009 (UQP), edited by Alan Wearne, author of the much-admired verse novel The Lovemakers, and much more besides, and The Best Australian Poems 2009 (Black Inc), edited by the equally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/what-makes-a-good-poem-two/</link>
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		<title>Poetic views of nights of fright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Emma Brown, The Courier, October 20th 2009]:
When researching his book The Ghost Poetry Project, local poet Nathan Curnow believed it necessary to get close to the subject matter.
At great personal cost to his nerves, Mr Curnow spent 10 nights in 10 haunted locations across Australia in an attempt to find a language of courage, fear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetic-views-of-nights-of-fright/</link>
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		<title>Does Brisbane have culture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Mathew Condon, Courier-Mail, October 19th 2009]:
That great comic genius Barry Humphries once quipped: &#8220;Australia is the Brisbane of the world.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/does-brisbane-have-culture/</link>
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		<title>Joe Amato&#8217;s response to &#8216;Some Darker Bouquets&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Joe Amato, mayday magazine, issue 1 spring 2009]:
 While we might not be witnessing a crisis in reviewing, exactly, it does seem to this correspondent (and I&#8217;m far from the first to say so) that the critical function has taken a serious hit with the full-blooded arrival of the amateur, courtesy (first and foremost) of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/joe-amatos-response-to-some-darker-bouquets/</link>
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		<title>Don Paterson wins the Forward poetry prize with &#8216;masterful&#8217; collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Alison Flood, The Guardian, October 7th 2009]L
Sixteen years after he debuted on the poetry scene with the acclaimed collection Nil Nil, Don Paterson has triumphed over one of the strongest poetry shortlists in years to take the Forward prize for best collection with Rain, a work which judges said showed the Scottish poet&#8217;s &#8220;total mastery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/don-paterson-wins-the-forward-poetry-prize-with-masterful-collection/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine poetry reading Sunday October 25th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our October reading has a focus on where we are lucky to live &#8211; Central Victoria &#8211; the Golden Triangle of Poetry. To celebrate, we have not just two feature poets but a triple treat: Rhonda Pohlke from Ararat, Rob Wallis from Castlemaine and Tru Dowling from Bendigo, three different poets but three of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-reading-sunday-october-25th/</link>
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		<title>Words of freedom find release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jane Sullivan, The Age, October 17th 2009]:
One of the ornaments in Herta Muller&#8217;s apartment in Romania was a fox skin rug on the floor. One day, she noticed the tail had broken off. She assumed it was an accident. But over the next few weeks, the paws were cut off, one by one. Finally the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/words-of-freedom-find-release/</link>
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		<title>Backstory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Fieldnotes: Tasmania', October 5th 2009]:
But what does any of this have to do with Tasmania, you’re asking, perhaps yawning slightly, distracted by the wind blowing outside or the mutter of traffic along your street … Well, in the late 1990s Irene gave up the store and moved to Hobart, her husband’s home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/backstory/</link>
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		<title>blessed is the colt peacemaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jeff Sparrow, Overland, October 13th 2009]:
Yesterday, in an article for Crikey, I commented on (what seemed to me) an astonishing suggestion in Time magazine that the Nobel Peace Prize should have been awarded to nuclear weapons. Let me repeat. A. Peace. Prize. For. Nuclear. Fucking. Weapons.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/blessed-is-the-colt-peacemaker/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;a new wave of lyrical poetry&#8217; &#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Pam Brown, from her blog 'the deletions']:
&#8230; there is a plethora of traditional lyric at this moment in Australian poetry writing and that’s what’s getting quite a bit of attention (via, to be repetitive) reviews, awards and the publication of first collections.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-new-wave-of-lyrical-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Making history come alive with literature: the importance of historical fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Trevor Cairney, from the blog 'Literacy, Families and Learning', October 4th 2009]:
I’ve just returned from a trip to Western Australia. I was attending a conference in Fremantle just south of Perth perhaps the most isolated major city in the world. Fremantle is home to one of the most interesting museums I have visited, the Western [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/making-literature-come-alive-with-literature-the-importance-of-historical-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Celan in Australia, and Heidegger again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Pierre Joris, form his blog 'Nomadics', October 10th 2009]:
Friend Warren Burt alerted me to a radio program on Paul Celan &#038; Martin Heidegger just broadcast by ABC: A message in a bottle: encounters with Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. It’s just streaming audio at the moment — click here —, but by mid-week, it should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/celan-in-australia-and-heidegger-again/</link>
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		<title>the re-emergence of the lyric &#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Pam Brown, from her blog 'the deletions', October 8th, 2009]:
The October edition of the Australian Literary Review has a long one and a half tabloid-size page, club-sandwich review of four recent first collections by Australian women poets and it reads like an academic marker’s commentary. It’s a kind of straight estimation rather than a critical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2355/</link>
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		<title>Australian poet wins British award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Brisbane Times, October 8th 2009]:
Australian poet Emma Jones has won Best First Collection at Britain&#8217;s prestigious Forward Prizes for Poetry.
The 32-year-old Sydney native became the first Australian to win the STG5,000 ($A8,935) Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection with her debut, The Striped World, on Wednesday.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/australian-poet-wins-british-award/</link>
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		<title>Speculation hits fever pitch for Nobel Literature Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Igor Gedilaghine, AFP, October 9th, 2009]:
This year&#8217;s Nobel Literature Prize could go to a poet for the first time since 1996, Swedish literary circles say as speculation hits fever pitch ahead of Thursday&#8217;s announcement.
A Spanish language author has not won the prize since 1990, so it could be time for Peru&#8217;s Mario Vargas Llosa to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/speculation-hits-fever-pitch-for-nobel-literature-prize/</link>
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		<title>The new tricks of early retirement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ross Fitzgerald, The Australian, October 10 2009]:
It isn&#8217;t all gloom, at least among those with tertiary education. Many retirees are finding a home in arts bureaucracy, one of the growth industries of our post-industrial age. The writers centre is a splendidly rackety institution, part of the creeping state control of what are called creative industries.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-new-tricks-of-early-retirement/</link>
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		<title>Julia Gillard biographer review slammed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Caroline Overington, The Australian, October 3rd 2009]:
The publisher of Penguin books in Australia, Ben Ball, has accused the new editor of the Melbourne-based literary magazine The Monthly of a &#8220;gross betrayal of basic editorial standards&#8221; for allowing the author of one biography of Julia Gillard to critique another in the October issue.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/julia-gillard-biographer-review-slammed/</link>
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		<title>1000 Verse Renga, the world&#8217;s longest poem ever!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Andrew Burke's blog 'Hi Spirits', October 8th 2009]:
Alan Summers:
&#8216;I&#8217;m the Embassy of Japan&#8217;s roving &#8220;Japan-UK 150&#8243; haiku &#038; renga poet-in-residence at Bath Central Library&#8217;s poet-in-residence for October (into November) starting with National Poetry Day this Thursday at 2pm.
&#8216;Everyone is invited. Visit here for more information about the 1000 Verse Renga.&#8217;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/1000-verse-renga-the-worlds-longest-poem-ever-2/</link>
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		<title>1000 verse Renga, the world&#8217;s longest poem ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Andrew Burke's blog 'Hi Spirits', October 8th 2009]:
Alan Summers: I&#8217;m the Embassy of Japan&#8217;s roving &#8220;Japan-UK 150&#8243; haiku &#038; renga poet-in-residence at Bath Central Library&#8217;s poet-in-residence for October (into November) starting with National Poetry Day this Thursday at 2pm.
Everyone is invited. Visit here for more information about the 1000 Verse Renga:
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/1000-verse-renga-the-worlds-longest-poem-ever/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming APC workshop, Melbourne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Poetry Centre will be running a workshop on Sunday 25 OCTOBER 2009.
A Confident Voice: Reading Your Poetry In Public
with Harry Laing
Poetry audiences are precious. Let&#8217;s make sure we don&#8217;t switch them off!
Too often poets don&#8217;t do their work justice because of a lack of vocal confidence.
Particularly tuned to poets this workshop will focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/upcoming-apc-workshop-melbourne/</link>
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		<title>Hobart readings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2pm this Sunday, 11 October &#8211; Cate Kennedy. This nationally acclaimed writer of short fiction speaks about her debut novel, The World Beneath. Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins St, Hobart.  
3pm &#8211; 5pm this Sunday, 11 October &#8211; Republic Readings, featuring two of Australia&#8217;s outstanding writers: Tasmanian poet and novelist Kathryn Lomer, and poet Ross [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/hobart-readings/</link>
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		<title>Why Marieke&#8217;s the natural choice for our first m-book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jane O'Sullivan, The Age, October 7th 2009]:
For a modern girl with a career in print, radio and television, Marieke Hardy can be a bit old-fashioned.
She’s a firm believer in embracing new media, she’s on Facebook, she wrote an award-winning blog for four years and she loves Twitter: ‘‘You get people who can craft those 140 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/why-mariekes-the-natural-choice-for-our-first-m-book/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Island&#8217; celebrates its 30th birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6pm Wednesday 14th October 2009
Upstairs Bar, Republic Bar and Cafe, cnr Burnett and Elixabeth Street, North Hobart
featuring the launch of the latest edition of Island [showcasing the 2009 Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize winners].
As well, the announcement of the 2009 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize winners.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/island-celebrates-its-30th-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Writer turns love of poetry into award-winning fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tova O'Brien, 3 news.co.nz, October 5th 2009]:
Judges for this year&#8217;s Katherine Mansfield literacy awards spent many hours under their reading lamps with around 1800 entries to choose from.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/writer-turns-love-of-poetry-into-award-winning-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Lorin Ford at &#8216;three lights gallery&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3Lights Gallery is a UK website which features some of Lorin&#8217;s recent haiku.
3Lights Gallery is a UK website edited by Liam Wilkinson who does &#8217;solo exhibitions&#8217; of haiku along with a haiku journal. Tasmanian Ron Moss was in the immediately preceding &#8216;exhibition&#8217;. 
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/lorin-fords-three-lights-gallery/</link>
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		<title>The unvarnished truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Craven, The Australian, October 3rd 2009]:
It&#8217;s not the easiest thing to arrange an interview with Peter Temple. The South African-born novelist, who has taken more than the crime-reading world by storm with his recent work, has a horror of being interviewed that seems related to the intensity he brings to the exercise. But finally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-unvarnished-truth/</link>
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		<title>Sea Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Red Room Company’s new national poetry project, &#8216;Sea Things&#8217;, was launched on October 1st at 11am, Constitution Dock, Hobart. &#8216;Sea Things&#8217; is commissioning new works from four exciting Australian poets, and travelling around the country by sea to collect maritime poems from members of the public, writers and schools.
ABC Radio National is Red Room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/sea-things/</link>
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		<title>Tasmanian Poetry Festival: further update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Cameron Hindrum, Poetry Festival director]
Morning Friends: just a quick note to clarify the time of Words on Water on Friday, as it may incorrect in some versions of the program. The cruise is scheduled to leave Home Point at 6.30 pm, not 7 pm.
I apologise for any inconvenience. If you were coming on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/tasmanian-poetry-festival-further-update/</link>
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		<title>States wary of literary curriculum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Justine Ferrari, The Australian, September 30th 2009]:
The push for a greater focus on print literature in the national English curriculum is being resisted in some states, with submissions from education authorities arguing against a &#8220;strong emphasis on literature&#8221;.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/states-wary-of-literary-curriculum/</link>
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		<title>Dame Edna to receive James Joyce Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Ireland Online, September 29th 2009]:
Flamboyant comedian Dame Edna Everage will receive a prestigious Irish award tomorrow in recognition of the entertainer&#8217;s career.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/dame-edna-to-receive-james-joyce-award/</link>
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		<title>Home truths on abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[William Dalrymple, Guardian, September 19th 2009]:
What is to become of travel writing now that the world is smaller? Who are the successors to Chatwin, Lewis and Thesiger? William Dalrymple names a new generation of stars and sees a sparkling future for the genre &#8211; one less to do with posturing and heroic adventures than an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/home-truths-on-abroad/</link>
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		<title>His head in the ether and his heart in the airwaves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Diana O'Mara, Brisbane Times, September 19th 2009]:
COSMOS BRYSON, 1942-1949
Peter Bryson, better known as Cosmos, was a mechanical fitter, navigator, songwriter and community radio announcer, perhaps best known as the navigator in 1967 of the Trident, which sailed for the French nuclear testing zone as an act of defiance.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/his-head-in-the-ether-and-his-heart-in-the-airwaves/</link>
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		<title>Write Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Connected through a love of writing, passion for the arts and the 2009 arts@work Critical Acclaim Writing Intensive, these Hobart based writers have united to create Write Response.
With experience as playwrights, actors, producers, journalists, editors and visual artists, the aim is to provide interesting responses to art and culture and produce creative writing in response [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/write-response/</link>
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		<title>Book launch, Hobart: Rachel Treasure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop and Penguin Books are pleased to invite you to the launch of Rachael Treasure&#8217;s new book, The Cattleman&#8217;s Daughter. This is the latest work from the bestselling author of Jillaroo, The Stockmen, and The Rouseabout.
Please join us for this free event.
Thursday October 15th, 5.30pm, at Mawson Pavilion.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-hobart-rachel-treasure/</link>
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		<title>Tasmanian Poetry Festival: an update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Cameron Hindrum, Director, Tasmanian Poetry Festival]
&#8216; &#8230; You must let me know (if you haven&#8217;t already) whether you would like to come on the boat on the Friday night. Positions are filling up quickly and we can only take limited numbers. Please get in touch to make a booking. (If you miss out on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/tasmanian-poetry-festival-update/</link>
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		<title>Wordsmith&#8217;s lair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Valerie Schuler, The Aucklander, September 22nd 2009]:
A few weeks into his stay at the Michael King Writers&#8217; Centre, Ian Wedde looks like a happy man. The fresh air up on Mt Victoria must be doing him good. Or maybe it&#8217;s those early morning walks around Devonport, before he settles in his studio for a day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/wordsmiths-lair/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Cloudstreet&#8217; by Tim Winton to be made into TV series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[['Perth Now', September 22nd 2009]:
Tim Winton&#8217;s multi-award winning literary masterpiece Cloudstreet will be shot in WA, it was announced today. Who would you cast in the lead roles?
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cloudstreet-by-tim-winton-to-be-made-into-tv-series/</link>
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		<title>Launch: Joel Magarey&#8217;s &#8216;Exposure: a Journey&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, October 9 at 6:00pm.
Where: Readings at Carlton.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launch-joel-magareys-exposure-a-journey/</link>
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		<title>Cheery author Sofie Laguna&#8217;s bloody tale of revenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Miriam Cosic, The Australian, September 19th 2009]:
Sofie Laguna insists she has a sunny personality. Her first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, a story of bloody revenge by an abused child on her depraved parents, might suggest otherwise.
&#8220;Even while I was writing the most terrible things, I felt very relaxed, very detached,&#8221; she said yesterday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/cheery-author-sofie-lagunas-bloody-tale-of-revenge/</link>
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		<title>PenWag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Don Branson, Missouri]
I&#8217;m pleased to introduce you to a new web site just for storytellers and readers: penwag.com. It&#8217;s a simple web site with no gimmicks, just an online place for friends to share stories. If you&#8217;re a storyteller, a reader, a teacher, a student, a hillbilly, a writer, or a wannabe writer, come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/penwag/</link>
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		<title>Dennis Haskell spells out his literary goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Miciam Cosic, The Australian, September 18th 2009]:
The teaching of Australian literature in schools and universities and the liberation of literature from the contextualising clutches of critical theory are two key interests of the new chairman of the Australia Council&#8217;s Literature Board, Dennis Haskell.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/dennis-haskell-spells-out-his-literary-goals/</link>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s writing workshop, Hobart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WORKSHOP: Saturday 26 September, HOBART, 10.30am &#8211; 1.30pm: Motherlode of poetry: Where few have gone before  
This workshop is open to people new to writing poetry, as well as experienced writers, and will give you an invaluable look at the breadth of Australian women&#8217;s writing. 
Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse have edited the important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/womens-writing-workshop-hobart/</link>
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		<title>New APC Workshop with Chris Wallace-Crabbe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poetry: History &#038; Appreciation with Chris Wallace-Crabbe
6-week course commencing 22 October 2009
The Australian Poetry Centre is pleased to announce that this highly successful workshop from 2008 will run again in October 2009.
Poetry: History &#038; Appreciation is a 6-week course on the art of poetry and its long history, ranging from the storytelling and choric roles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/new-apc-workshop-with-chris-wallace-crabbe/</link>
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		<title>Poems by Pam Brown: The Argotist Online</title>
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poem-by-pam-brown-the-argotist-online/</link>
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		<title>Bondi Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come join in an exploration of Bondi Beach with 3 of Australia’s leading poets
joanne burns  Brook Emery Les Wicks
with music from Maryjane Leahy
accessible &#038; engaging –
unique perspectives on a world icon
@ Bondi Social
1st floor 38 Campbell Pde Bondi Beach
2.15 for 2.30  October 10
FREE
Open mike session where audience members can read their poem on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/bondi-line/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine, 27th Sept: Kristin Henry, Cate Kennedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cate Kennedy and Kristin Henry, together at last, feature at the Guildford Hotel on Sunday, 27th September, 3pm start. Two wonderful poets and good friends at the height of their poetic power &#8211; and just a couple of couplets down the Daylesford Road from Castlemaine, Victoria or 15 minutes for human kind. Vibrant Open Section [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-27th-sept-kristin-henry-cate-kennedy/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Pedlars : Monday 21st September [Launceston]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello there all you wordy poetry pedlars,
Just a reminder that the September meeting is on next Monday 21st September upstairs @ The Royal Oak cnr Tamar &#038; Brisbane Sts. Our hosts are Rosemary &#038; Bruce, so say hi if you see them &#038; don&#8217;t forget there&#8217;s some very tasty food &#038; plenty of beverages to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-pedlars-monday-21st-september-launceston/</link>
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		<title>Pam Brown interviewing Ann Waldman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Argotist Online]
PB: ‘Ceremonies of the Gong World’ has a kind of ominous feeling and addresses recent terrorist bombings, conflicts and problems (like the tsunami) in Asia, specifically Bali, Aceh, East Timor. You seem to know quite a bit about local religion there. Have you visited Bali and Indonesia?
AW: I worked in Bali, directing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/pam-brown-interviewing-anne-waldman/</link>
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		<title>Future directions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of toing and froing between the various writers&#8217; centres as to how best to respond to the Australia Council&#8217;s ultimatums for new funding directions. Not sure I understand it very well &#8230; apparently there are three options open to writers&#8217; centres, an option of establishing oneself as a centre of excellence [not just in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/future-directions/</link>
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		<title>Jim Carroll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[From Tom Clark's blog 'Beyond the Pale', September 14th 2009]:
But it wasn&#8217;t that canny, actually, because I had been writing for a long time. People think that my demise in basketball was from drugs, but it wasn&#8217;t. I wasn&#8217;t getting high before every game. Once in a while we made the mistake of taking downers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/jim-carroll/</link>
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		<title>Art of the long view</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Wyndham, The Age, September 5th 2009]:
&#8221;I heard someone once say, &#8216;You must feel different now that you&#8217;ve moved to the big pool from the toddler pool,&#8217; &#8221; she says of her change of form. &#8221;I quite bridled at this because I don&#8217;t think the short story is a toddler pool. In a way it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/art-of-the-long-view/</link>
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		<title>Paradise and pain both figured in his poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Paul Millar, Sydney Morning Herald, September 2nd 2009]:
The poems, plays, fiction and autobiography of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell embody the complexities of South Pacific colonisation.
Campbell, who has died at 84, was a gravely handsome man who smiled rarely and spoke frankly of the strain of profound loss and grief that suffused his poetry. He struggled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/paradise-and-pain-both-figured-in-his-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Taking the &#8216;young&#8217; out of YA fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[From the blog 'Librarian Idol', September 11th 2009]:
But at the same time, what is the library saying to young adults who visit the library, when there isn&#8217;t a designated area for them, highlighting the best in young adult fiction that they can borrow? Whilst there is a substantial crossover between YA and Adult fiction, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/taking-the-young-out-of-ya-fiction/</link>
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		<title>The Australian/Vogel Award: the glimmer of something new</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Geordie Williamson, The Australian, September 12th 2009]:
When biographer Hilary Spurling was asked recently about her memories of being a judge for the Booker Prize, she fondly recalled &#8220;a summer of long, hot, hazy days spent lying under a tree in the garden reading novels and saying to anyone who tried to interrupt &#8216;Go away, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-australianvogel-award-the-glimmer-of-something-new/</link>
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		<title>Overload Poetry Festival in review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Graham Nunn, from his blog 'Another Lost Shark', September 9th 2009]:
Friday kicked off with the launch of Overload 2009 at the Fitzroy Town Hall, MC’d by poetic raconteur, Myron Lysenko. A truly beautiful venue and great space to mingle with the Melbourne poetry crowd. I was really impressed by the passion of the Mayor who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/overload-poetry-festival-in-review/</link>
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		<title>How video killed the painting stars at the Blake Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Adam Fulton, Brisbane Times, September 4th 2009]:
A video has for the first time won the Blake Prize, Australia&#8217;s premier award for religious and spiritual art, and another has snared its emerging-artist gong in an historic shift towards &#8220;new&#8221; media art.
Sydney artist Angelica Mesiti – whose 10-minute slow-motion video of the entranced faces and ecstatic expressions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/how-video-killed-the-painting-stars-at-the-blake-prize/</link>
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		<title>Go to bed with a good book? No thanks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Matt Buchanan, Sydney Morning Herald, September 9th 2009]:
Romantic love is not so much absent from Australian literature as persistently truant.
We have no D.H. Lawrence and no Leo Tolstoy. And we have yet to read an Australian chronicler of love in its domestic setting as sharp-eyed as Alice Munro, or of infidelity so involved as John [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/go-to-bed-with-a-good-book-no-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Books will survive, but not on paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Hayes, The Australian, September 4th 2009]:
Poetry publishing has always been a risky business and I am convinced that the new interest in poetry and poetry slams that we are seeing today is a direct consequence of online publication.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/books-will-survive-but-not-on-paper/</link>
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		<title>The stretch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Angela Bennie, The Australian, September 5th 2009]:
ON the flyleaf of Cate Kennedy&#8217;s award-winning volume of short stories, Dark Roots, published in 2006, is the quotation: &#8220;There is some secret grief here I need to declare, and my fingers itch for a pencil.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-stretch/</link>
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		<title>Ian Johnston: Hobart Saturday 12th September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[12 September Saturday, 3pm &#8211; 5.30pm 
A special presentation by Chinese scholar and poet Ian Johnston, author of Singing of Scented Grass: Verses from the Chinese (Pardalote Press, 2003). Ian Johnston will talk about Chinese poetry and read from his work.
Cost &#8211; $15 including a specialty sweet and tea from China. Bookings essential. 
Please ring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/ian-johnston-hobart-saturday-12th-september/</link>
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		<title>New anthology of Tasmanian poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10 September 5.30pm, Thursday : Hobart Bookshop
The Hobart Bookshop and the Fellowship of Australian Writers are pleased to invite you to the launch of a new anthology of Tasmanian poetry. A Net of Hands contains 104 poems by 40 emerging or established Tasmanian poets, and is edited by Megan Schaffner. The book will be launched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/new-anthology-of-tasmanian-poetry/</link>
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		<title>yesterday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Met with Jane Williams and Anne Collins at a gallery in Salamanca [Hobart] Saturday. Both Anne and Jane will be writing poems in response to a series of paintings on display [from next week] at the gallery, today marked the first occasion they viewed the paintings they intend responding to. Both admitted to anticipation – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/yesterday/</link>
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		<title>Republic Readings, Hobart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6 September Sunday, 3-5pm &#8211; Hobart’s National Poetry Week Celebrations at the Republic Readings. Republic Bar &#038; Café, 299 Elizabeth St, North Hobart. (corner of Elizabeth St &#038; Burnett St). 
 Featured Reader: Richard Lemm from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
 The Hobart Poetry Pot
 International Languages Reading
 Launch of Spring Rain, haiku and senryu by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/republic-readings-hobart/</link>
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		<title>Still sharp but no so short</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Susan Wyndham, Sydney Morning Herald, September 1st 2009]:
The World Beneath (which will also be published in Britain and the US) is a sharp study of Sandy and Rich, a separated couple in their 40s, who have drifted since their days as environmental activists and the triumph of the blockade to stop the damming of Tasmania&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/still-sharp-but-no-so-short/</link>
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		<title>Philip Hensher: The deadliest rivalry lurks in literary festivals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Philip Hensher, The Independent, August 31st 2009]:
Bemusing to the participating writer, the international literary festival must present a gripping spectacle to the observing anthropologist. Some writers treat it as a brute Darwinian struggle for survival, and to many participants, the festival is an opportunity for status adjustment and display. There are the local heroes with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/philip-hensher-the-deadliest-rivalry-lurks-in-literary-festivals/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine Poetry Reading Sunday September 27th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poetry at The Guildford
Cate Kennedy &#038; Kristin Henry         
By the very nature of their art, poets are idiosyncratic. They can wander lonely as a cloud or be inspired by a Greek urn to write an ode.
The two marvellous poets lined up this month for The Guildford Hotel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-reading-sunday-september-27th/</link>
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		<title>A Perfect hat-trick as he wins literary award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Paul Millar and Jason Steger, The Age, September 2nd 2009]:
It&#8217;s not every day that an awards ceremony bowls the master of ceremonies a googly. But that&#8217;s what happened last night at the presentation of the Victorian Premier&#8217;s Literary Awards when MC Eddie Perfect read out his own name on the shortlist for the best music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-perfect-hat-trick-as-he-wins-literary-award/</link>
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		<title>Brisbane home to Australia&#8217;s first Digital Literature Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Queensland Writers Centre Management Committee Chair, Theodora Le Souquet, and CEO, Kate Eltham, announced the launch of the Australian Institute of the Future of the Book or &#8216;if:book Australia&#8217; at the Melbourne Writers Festival The State Of Digital Publishing industry seminar on Thursday 27 August.
Based in Brisbane, if: book Australia is only the third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/brisbane-home-to-australias-first-digital-literature-centre/</link>
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		<title>Brendan Ryan: &#8216;Play Time&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A poor man’s Escher of yellow pipes
hump slides, ramps and split level views
becomes a business in an empty warehouse.
Lattes, magazines, footy telecast on a widescreen
fathers checking mobiles behind the line of discontent.
Some stray into battle to snap a daughter
descending the slide in a lotus position.
A boy rattles the bars of a gate,
runs off, then shakes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/brendan-ryan-play-time/</link>
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		<title>Return from Down Under</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Elizabeth Bachinsky', August 29th 2009]:
Hey there. How ya goin&#8217;? I&#8217;m back from Brisbane and reeling from the beauty and the poetry of Queensland. What a beautiful place! What beautiful people! The Queensland Poetry Festival was a blast. I am particularly in love with the poetry I caught by Aussies Jessica Tong, Paul [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/return-from-down-under/</link>
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		<title>Janet Frame awards for Wellington writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[stuff.co.nz, August 29th 2009]:
Two Wellington region writers have won Janet Frame awards, Geoff Cochrane for poetry and Alison Wong for fiction. 
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/janet-frame-awards-for-wellington-writers/</link>
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		<title>Margaret Atwood on a voyage to the world&#8217;s end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tim Adams, The Guardian, August 30th 2009]:
In her latest novel, the Canadian writer describes an Earth ravaged by an ecological disaster. She&#8217;s crossing the Atlantic now on the Queen Mary 2 for what&#8217;s billed as the greenest book tour ever – with songs thrown in
Margaret Atwood is currently at sea. She has set sail for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/margaret-atwood-on-a-voyage-to-the-worlds-end/</link>
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		<title>Success came to writer Cate Kennedy when she was busiest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Fiona Purdon, The Courier Mail, August 29th 2009]: 
Kennedy, 45, was thrilled with the reception for Dark Roots but not with the timing of her success. Her father had recently died and she was a sleep-deprived mother to five-month-old baby, Rosie.
&#8220;It couldn&#8217;t have come at a worse time,&#8221; she says.
&#8220;It was like the universe playing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/success-came-to-writer-cate-kennedy-when-she-was-busiest/</link>
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		<title>Wordsworth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thoughtful conversation on the British &#038; Irish poets mailing list where Wordsworth&#8217;s poetry has been characterised as clogged down with descriptions &#8216;and his ruminations on such&#8217;; that it&#8217;s impossible for any mode of  writing to &#8220;express&#8221; or acurately describe reality because &#8216;All there is is language, and poetry is language manipulated to create &#8220;meanings&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/worsworth/</link>
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		<title>Poetry of Melody: Melbourne, 13th September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poetry of Melody
Sunday 13 September 2009, 4:00 &#8211; 5:30pm (3.30 for 4pm Start )
Join poets, Angela Costi and Richard Lemm, along with Sheng Performer, Wang Zeng-Ting in an afternoon presentation of poetry performance, music and readings.
Angela Costi is a freelance playwright, poet, dramaturg and community artist. Her poetry and writing have been widely published, broadcast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-of-melody-melbourne-13th-september/</link>
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		<title>Rejections. What to make of them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sean O'Leary, from his blog 'Short Story Wonders', August 19th 2009]:
One of my short stories, &#8216;Sanjay Dhoni&#8217; (on this blog) was nearly published by the &#8216;Griffith Review&#8217;. I say nearly because I kept getting emails (three of them) each time telling me I was through to the &#8216;next stage&#8217; and was my story still available. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/rejections-what-to-make-of-them/</link>
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		<title>Prose by any other name not as sweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Greg Sheridan, The Australian, August 22nd 2009]:
How did you make your first serious acquaintance with Shakespeare? Shakespeare was not generally well taught in the nuns&#8217; and brothers&#8217; schools I mostly attended in Sydney. It&#8217;s hard to teach Shakespeare&#8217;s plays. Ideally, you need to see them performed before you read them. Having students read them aloud [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/prose-by-any-other-name-not-as-sweet/</link>
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		<title>The Poet&#8217;s Life Works with Lionel Fogarty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Red Room Company presents: The Poet&#8217;s Life Works
with Lionel Fogarty
When:
Thursday August 27th
Time:
6:30 for 6:45 &#8211; 8:00PM
Where:
The Performance Room,
Redfern Community Centre
29-53 Hugo Street
Redfern NSW 2016
Cost:
$5 entry
RSVP:
Tamryn Bennett
Phone (02) 9319 5090
The Poet’s Life Works celebrates four major Australian poets. Each month from May-August 2009, the project features a poet performing new writing in a Sydney space, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-poets-life-works-with-lionel-fogarty/</link>
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		<title>Just Kissed Goodbye… Some memories of QPF 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Graham Nunn, from his blog 'Another Lost Shark', August 25th 2009]:
And importantly, we celebrated the many achievements of Festival Director, Julie Beveridge as she announced she would be standing down from the position. Julie has taken the festival to a new level during her two year tenure, building on the success of the first eleven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/just-kissed-goodbye%e2%80%a6-some-memories-of-qpf-2009/</link>
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		<title>A sweet unrest: Jane Campion recreates love affair between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Maria Garcia, Film Journal International, August 21st 2009]:
Jane Campion’s Bright Star—opening Sept. 18 from Bob Berney’s new company, Apparition—is named for a poem written by John Keats, one of the British Romantic poets. His “bright star” was Fanny Brawne, an 18-year-old neighbor. Through the story of their brief romance, Campion revisits the subject she’s spent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/a-sweet-unrest-jane-campion-recreates-love-affair-between-poet-john-keats-and-fanny-brawne/</link>
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		<title>Loss in a far-off world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jacqueline Dutton, The Australian, August 22nd 2009]:
French interest in Australia has been growing steadily during the past few years, with increased co-operation in economic investment and transport infrastructure, higher education programs and employment exchanges.
Although rumours of an official visit by President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni to Australia this month have fallen through, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/loss-in-a-far-off-world/</link>
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		<title>Launch: Andrew Taylor&#8217;s &#8216;the unhaunting&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6:30 pm Thursday 10th September, launched by Dennis Haskell
Planet Books, 636 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley, Western Australia
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/launch-andrew-taylors-the-unhaunting/</link>
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		<title>Books, Poetry And Performance At Going West Books And Writers Festival 2009 [NZ]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A world premiere performance, the popular Book Market and Poetry Slam, a line-up of leading contemporary writers and a free children&#8217;s storytelling day feature as part of Going West Books and Writers Festival 2009.
Exhibitions, seminars, workshops and the Wordsmiths touring programme in schools also feature in the Festival which takes place in Waitakere City during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/books-poetry-and-performance-at-going-west-books-and-writers-festival-2009-nz/</link>
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		<title>Byron Bay Writers Festive Retrospective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the Northern Rivers Writers Centre]
FAST FACTS
Sight of the Festival: the fabulous Judith Lanigan teaching Mark Dapin to hula hoop behind the Green Room
Biggest selling book at the Festival: Imran Ahmad&#8217;s Unimagined
Maddest audience comment at the Festival: excited person leaving SCU Marquee after Geoffrey Robertson&#8217;s hour with Kerry O&#8217;Brien clutching Director tightly and exclaiming &#8216;Jeffery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/byron-bay-writers-festive-retrospective/</link>
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		<title>Facilitation talks between the Australian Poetry Centre and the Poets Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Poets Union Inc]
Talks were held in Melbourne on 27 June between the Board of the APC and representatives of the PU Committee (Martin Langford, David Musgrave, Anna Kerdijk-Nicholson and Brook Emery).
The talks were characterised by a high degree of openness, trust, optimism and free discussion. The difficulties of working out the details of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/facilitation-talks-between-the-australian-poetry-centre-and-the-poets-union/</link>
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		<title>Newcastle: Saturday August 22nd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[sourced from the Poets Union]
Newcastle  &#8211; Sat 22  Aug 5pm at MacLean&#8217;s Booksellers, 69 Beaumont Street, Hamilton 2303, T: 02 49692525
E: amanda at macleansbooks.com.au

 Motherlode: Australian Women&#8217;s Poetry 1986-2008, edited by Jennifer Harrison &#038; Kate Waterhouse (Puncher &#038; Wattmann 2009) will be launched across all states at readings given by local and interstate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/newcastle-saturday-august-22nd/</link>
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		<title>2009 Tasmanian Poetry Festival: programme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s festival will run from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th October, with guests Ross Donlon, Kevin Gillam, Rob Morris, Nathan Curnow, Zenobia Frost, Jacquie Williams, Kristin Hannaford, Robin Archbold, and Tasmanian locals Ron Moss and Sarah Day.
This year&#8217;s programme can be found at the festival&#8217;s website.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2009-tasmanian-poetry-festival-programme/</link>
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		<title>How many books have I read?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Alan Bramhall's blog 'tributary', August 13th 2009]:
“The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?” 
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/how-many-books-have-i-read/</link>
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		<title>do ghosts wear jeans and sneakers, Kevin Brophy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Genevieve Tucker, from her blog 'reeling and writhing', August 17th 2009]:
As noted by Angela, the launch of Nathan Curnow&#8217;s Ghost Poetry Project, a work over three years in the making, was held at the Old Melbourne Gaol last last Friday night, and I was suitably spooked by the setting for starters. 
More &#8230;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/do-ghosts-wear-jeans-and-sneakers-kevin-brophy/</link>
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		<title>Dylan Thomas&#8217;s daughter: ‘I still get angry with the self-destruction of my father’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Louette harding, Mail Online, August 15th 2009]:
He had a fling and a friend told Caitlin. Aeronwy was used to taking refuge with her paternal grandparents. ‘It was a well-known ritual. One had to get away. My mother was quite free with the hairbrush and I would show Granny the marks on my bottom. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/dylan-thomass-daughter-%e2%80%98i-still-get-angry-with-the-self-destruction-of-my-father%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Stop the publishing whitewash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Lola Adesioye, The Guardian, August 12th 2009]:
The American arm of world-renowned Bloomsbury Publishing has found itself at the centre of a controversy over the &#8220;whitewashing&#8221; of the cover of one of its author&#8217;s books. Although the book, by Australian author Justine Larbalestier, is about a black child, the publishers originally decided to use an image [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/stop-the-publishing-whitewash/</link>
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		<title>New poetry and fiction on the island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visiting South Australian writer CATH KENNEALLY
Prince Edward Island Writer in Residence RICHARD LEMM
6-8 pm this Tuesday 18th August at the Lark [Hobart]
Introduced by Rob Valentine, Lord Mayor, Hobart City Council.
A free event.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/new-poetry-and-fiction-on-the-island/</link>
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		<title>In praise of slow TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Kirkwood, Eureka Street, July 31st 2009]:
I want to write in praise of SlowTV, the online video hub which is part of The Monthly&#8217;s website.
The name makes obvious reference to the slow movement that began with &#8216;Slow Food&#8217; in Italy in the late 1980s. This started with protests against the opening of a McDonald&#8217;s fast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/in-praise-of-slow-tv/</link>
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		<title>Asia Literary Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Lara Day, Time magazine, August 17th 2009]:
You can find it on bookshelves in New York City, London, Singapore and Sydney. It&#8217;s a sponsor of literary festivals in Ubud on Bali and Hay-on-Wye in Wales. And it&#8217;s distributed in 250 Barnes &#038; Noble stores across the U.S. The Asia Literary Review (ALR) — a slick, expensive-looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/asia-literary-review/</link>
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		<title>Macquarie PEN anthology of Australian literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Peter Pierce, Brisbane Times, August 8th 2009]:
Flying over the inland of the Australian continent, Nicholas Jose reflected on &#8220;the intimate relationship between this extreme, subtle land and the human experiences it has shaped and been shaped by&#8221;. Back on the ground, he has edited with distinction something more to do with &#8220;human experiences&#8221;: the Macquarie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/macquarie-pen-anthology-of-australian-literature/</link>
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		<title>This evening &#8211; Poetry at the Gallery [Hobart]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday 12 August, 5.30pm for 6pm start &#8211; Poetry at the Gallery presented by the Tasmanian Writers&#8217; Centre and the Salamanca Collection Gallery. Celebrated poets Gina Mercer and Ron Moss will respond to artworks by Dallas Bromley currently on exhibition. Free event! The Gallery is opposite the silos in Salamanca. The Red Dot cafe will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/this-evening-poetry-at-the-gallery-hobart/</link>
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		<title>The Best Australian Poems 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[reviewed by Simon Patton, Stylus Poetry Journal, as sourced from Andrew Burke's hispirits]:
The main advantage of a collection such as this is to provide us with a profile of current Australian poetry: through it, we can get a rough idea of what people currently consider poetry to be, and what its specific qualities are. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/the-best-australian-poems-2008/</link>
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		<title>Victorian Premier&#8217;s Literary Awards Shortlist 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The shortlist for the 2009 Victorian Premier&#8217;s Literary Awards was  announced yesterday by Lynne Kosky MP, Minister for the Arts.
The winners of the 2009 Awards will be announced by the Hon. John Brumby  MP, Premier of Victoria, at a celebratory dinner at Federation Square on
Tuesday 1 September. The evening’s MC will be writer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-shortlist-2009/</link>
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		<title>Shortlist long on talent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Jason Steger, The Age, August 8th 2009]:
The full range of Australian writing and publishing is reflected in this year&#8217;s shortlist for The Age Book of the Year awards. There are new names and old favourites, published by a mix of independents and multinationals. The books&#8217; subjects vary hugely, from post-apocalyptic survival to Charles Darwin, from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/shortlist-long-on-talent/</link>
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		<title>Reflect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Cahiers de Corey', July 28th 2009]:
Now when I write poetry I want to write what I think of as most fully proper to poetry, what it alone can accomplish. The effects, and poetic cognition, made possible primarily by putting pressure on syntax, appeal strongly to me. White space, line breaks, meter: the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/reflect/</link>
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		<title>Geoffrey Dean&#8217;s blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[form the new blog by short story writer, Geoff Dean, August 6th 2009]:
Dear prospective virtual readers, I’ve published heaps of stories and won heaps of prizes and had heaps of acclaim throughout the fifty or so years that I’ve been writing short stories. I would like to say that I’ve also earned heaps of money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/geoffrey-deans-blog/</link>
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		<title>Twenty-first Century Bookshow Episode Three 4.8.09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Louise Swinn and Zoe Dattner on the blog 'Twenty-first Century Bookshow', August 2nd 2009]:
Incredibly, some 62 people &#8211; and possibly even more &#8211; checked out our little web-vision show last week, and that classifies as encouragement to us. So here we are, back for another week of mumbling and totally unscripted book babble. This week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/twenty-first-century-bookshow-episode-three-4-8-09/</link>
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		<title>Flawed effort to fire up Left&#8217;s patriotic zeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another of Christopher Pearson&#8217;s pieces in The Australian; rather interestingly &#8211; or should I term that &#8216;incredibly&#8217;?   &#8211; he alludes to a notion of the UN&#8217;s &#8216;plausibility&#8217;.
[Christopher Pearson, The Australian, August 8th 2009]:
Soutphommasane has an interesting take on the culture wars of the Howard era. He thinks that on some crucial fronts the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/flawed-effort-to-fire-up-lefts-patriotic-zeal/</link>
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		<title>Drewe makes literary history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Hannah Ross, Byron Shire News, August 3rd, 2009]:
THE &#8217;solitary business&#8217; of writing has once again drawn Northern Rivers author Robert Drewe into the limelight.
Mr Drewe is one of only 300 Australians whose work has been selected for inclusion in the Anthology of Australian Literature, which was released on Friday.
More &#8230;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/drewe-makes-literary-history/</link>
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		<title>Book launch &#8211; Robyn Mathison, 27th August: Hobart Bookshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to their next launch event.
Pete Hay will launch Robyn Mathison&#8217;s new book, To Be Eaten by Mice.
Thursday August 27th, 5.30pm
All welcome to this free event.
The Hobart Bookshop
22 Salamanca Square
Hobart Tasmania 7000
P 03 6223 1803 . F 03 6223 1804
hobooks at ozemail dot com dot au
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/book-launch-robyn-mathison-27th-august-hobart-bookshop/</link>
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		<title>QPF Spotlight #13 – AF Harrold’s Desert(ed) Island Poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Graham Nunn, from his blog 'Another Lost Shark', August 5th 2009]:
With just a little more than two weeks to go before more than 40 poets descend on the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, the anticipation is splitting my seams. The dashingly bearded AF Harrold is one of the poets who I am dying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/qpf-spotlight-13-%e2%80%93-af-harrold%e2%80%99s-deserted-island-poems/</link>
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		<title>Poetry paying the bills for laureate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Tom Fitzsimons, The Dominion Post, July 23rd 2009]:
When winter comes to Bluff, poet Cilla McQueen usually just hunkers down in her draughty, freezing home and keeps on writing.
So the newly announced poet laureate&#8217;s first idea for the $100,000 windfall coming her way with the role is simple: &#8220;Pay the electricity bill.&#8221;
More &#8230;.
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/poetry-paying-the-bills-for-laureate/</link>
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		<title>Tasmania Performs presents Mudlark Theatre&#8217;s production of CROSS by Stephanie Briarwood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tasmania Performs presents the final four performances of the state wide tour of Mudlark Theatre&#8217;s production of CROSS by Stephanie Briarwood.
CROSS had its premiere season as part of Theatre North&#8217;s Subscription series in Launceston in 2008. Since the Theatre North season, the CROSS creative team have refined the work further with one of Australia&#8217;s leading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/tasmania-performs-presents-mudlark-theatres-production-of-cross-by-stephanie-briarwood/</link>
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		<title>Almeida Children&#8217;s Poetry Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are invited to the launch of the Australian Poetry Centre&#8217;s Almeida Children&#8217;s Poetry Collection, an interactive collection of poetry books, video and audio recordings, games and resources for children made possible by a donation from Meida Russell and selected publishers.
Guest speaker: Ms Rosemary McKenzie
Including readings from the collection
Experimedia, State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/almeida-childrens-poetry-collection/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Plan to be published&#8217;: poetry workshop with Les Wicks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLAN TO BE PUBLISHED — POETRY WORKSHOP WITH LES WICKS
Plan to be Published with Les Wicks
When: Sat 12 September, 12-5pm
Where: Melbourne City Library253 Flinders Lane
Cost: $45/$35 conc.
Bring multiple copies of 1 poem, writing materials and lunch. Exceptional, supporting yet challenging, showing (and earning) respect, a privilege toattend this leader’s workshop;serendipity but fabulous; contributed very generously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/plan-to-be-published-poetry-workshop-with-les-wicks/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Softblow&#8217;: an update from Cyril Wong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from Cyril Wong, Singapore]
Warmest greetings,
SOFTBLOW Poetry Journal is back at a new location: 
This journal was located previously at softblow.com. Unfortunately, as some past readers might already know, we were undermined by our web hosting company which threatened to keep us from entering and editing the domain if we did not pay additional sums of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2062/</link>
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		<title>Castlemaine Poetry Reading August 23rd: Sarah Day and Louise Oxley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outstanding, award winning Tasmanian poets, Sarah Day and Louise Oxley are flying in to do one reading only in Victoria &#8211; at &#8216;The G&#8217; for Guildford Hotel, on Sunday, August 23rd. 3 pm. 
Sarah Day&#8217;s sixth collection will be published later this year. She has won numerous prizes, including the Queensland Premier&#8217;s Prize for Poetry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/castlemaine-poetry-reading-august-23rd-sarah-day-and-louise-oxley/</link>
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		<title>Anthology showcases Australia&#8217;s literary history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Anne Maria Nicholson, ABC News, July 31st 2009]:
It is one of the most ambitious publishing projects ever attempted in Australia.
And now, after more than six years in the making, the Anthology of Australian Literature is about to see the light of day.
More than 300 writers have made it into the 1,500-page book, which includes novels, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/anthology-showcases-australias-literary-history/</link>
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		<title>Issue 14 of &#8216;Otoliths&#8217; has gone live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Otoliths
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As always it&#8217;s full of variety. There&#8217;s work by Kirsten Kaschock, Pat Nolan,Márton Koppány, Jim Meirose , Anne Gorrick, Caleb Puckett, Peter Schwartz,Fredrick Zydek, Ed Baker, Ross Brighton, Derek Henderson, John M. Bennett,John M. Bennett &#038; Sheila E. Murphy, Raymond Farr, Jill  Chan, John Martone, Bob Heman, Philip Byron Oakes, Ric Carfagna, Eileen R. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/issue-14-of-otoliths-has-gone-live/</link>
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		<title>Nearest &amp; Dearest: an interview with Mary Cresswell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Janis Freegard's Weblog', July 27th 2009]:
Finally, do you have good acceptance/ rejection stories you’d like to share?
Actually, I don’t. I usually send editors a choice of poems, rather than putting all my hopes into one. When an editor rejects the lot, I usually feel, oh, well, I’m just not their cup of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/nearest-dearest-an-interview-with-mary-cresswell/</link>
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		<title>Parallel Importation&#8230; a conversation with myself.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[from the blog 'Librarian idol', July 17th 2009]
Lit-buff: You don&#8217;t sound so sure. Besides, you&#8217;ve totally avoided the issue of Australian editions being replaced by overseas editions. They&#8217;re NOT the same. The language is subtly different. They&#8217;re representative of a society that isn&#8217;t our own.
Librarian: Not substantially. I mean, yes, when it comes to some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/parallel-importation-a-conversation-with-myself/</link>
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		<title>Brieflings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With reviews, it isn&#8217;t easy finding a good mix for a magazine. Island&#8217;s poetry editor, Adrienne Eberhard pinpoints the problem as not so much finding the cash to pay reviewers as finding sufficient space to present a decent sampling of recent collections. Famous reporter suffers the same problem. While the magazine indulges in a handful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/brieflings/</link>
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		<title>Authors gain support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Mark Davis, The Age, July 31st 2009]:
Authors and book publishers have secured significant backing from the ALP in their campaign against a Productivity Commission plan to reduce prices by removing restrictions on imports of books printed overseas.
More &#8230;
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		<link>http://www.walleahpress.com.au/b25/currajah/2038/</link>
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