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Thanks to Poetry on the Move, there is recording of the Zoom book launch of Geoff Page’s 101 Poems (2011-2021). If you missed this lovely evening, it is captured here:

Slack Tide by Sarah Day

Slack tide is the turning point when a body of tidal water can seem uncertain as to whether it is coming in or going out. While surface water may be deceptively calm at this time, below the surface huge divergent forces are at work.

In the title of Sarah Day’s ninth collection the erm is an expression of twenty-first century unease. World events and global forces are an oblique presence in much of this collection in whose poems private and public disturb one another’s space and boundaries.

Sarah will be joined in conversation by poet and essayist, Pete Hay.

Thursday 29 September, 5.30pm. RACV Hotel, 154-156 Collins Street, Hobart.

For tickets and further information, click here.

News just in: two Pitt Street Poets – John Foulcher and Anthony Lawrence – are finalists in the Montreal Poetry Prize. Warmest congrats to you both!

With participants from more than 100 countries, this biennial prize is one of the world’s most keenly sought after and prestigious. At CA$20,000 it is also the richest for an individual poem.

The first Montreal prize in 2011 was won by Aussie poet Mark Tredinnick. His winning poem ‘Walking Underwater’ is the title poem of a recent PSP collection. You can buy it and recent collections from both John Foulcher and Anthony Lawrence at the PSP on line bookshop.

Poet Peter Frankis launched Ron Pretty’s 101 POEMS at the South Coast Writers Centre at Coledale NSW on Sunday 28th August.

Ron led the large audience through a colourful account of his life and times, pausing for Peter to read poems from every stage of his storied poetic career.

A landmark collection of ‘greatest hits’ from one of Australian poetry’s enduring masters.

‘A memorable night of cake and laughter and poetry at the Royal Oak in Balmain as the legendary Judith Beveridge launches Ordinary Time by Anthony Lawrence and Audrey Molloy.   Warm thanks to Dan Jordon and Roaring Stories bookshop for hosting the event.  Watch the whole show on YouTube real soon now, and buy the book here!’