Proudly announcing our 2013 poetry list

 

Luke Davies Four Plots for Magnets Republication of his rare first book from 1982 with 53 additional previously unpublished poems and supporting essays & notes
Lesley Lebkowicz The Petrov Poems This verse novel retells the classic Cold War espionage saga in 1950’s Canberra
Ron Pretty What the Afternoon Knows Poems written by one of Australia’s best-loved poets during a residency in Rome
Geoff Page Improving the News New collection from a leading elder statesman of Australian poetry
Jakob Ziguras Chains of Snow Eagerly awaited first collection from a gifted young Sydney poet
Melinda Smith Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call Parsing the pastoral, poetics, Petrarch and parturition
Eileen Chong Burning Rice
(second edition)		 Reissue of a well received first collection

Wrong Phrasebooks, right moves.

We’re gearing up for the launch of Jean Kent’s new peripatetic poetry collection Travelling with the Wrong Phrasebooks at the Toronto Library in Lake Macquarie on Sat 29th September.  Check out the Facebook event for more details if you’d like to join us.  Well known Sydney poet savant Judith Beveridge will be there to crack the metaphorical bottle of bubbly over the metaphorical bows.

In the meantime, take a look at Queensland/Northumberland poet Paul Summers’ take on the book at the Rochford Street Review:

‘This is a book of love and of loss, of empathy & compassion, of celebration and remembrance, of trauma and attempted reparation, of bewilderment & understanding.’

Paul reviewed the illustrated hardback version and so also has some kind comments for artist Oliver Watts and even for Pitt Street Poetry itself.  Thanks Paul.

Brisbane Phrasebooks

The Queensland Poetry Festival – held at the Judith Wright Centre in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane last weekend – invited Jean Kent to join the raft of national and international poets featured on the festival roster.  Jean read from her new collection Travelling with the Wrong Phrasebooks on Saturday and again on Sunday.  The books themselves arrived from the printers just in time, and the festival bookstore did a brisk trade in both the hard back and paperback versions.

Each of which, by the way, are now available for purchase on-line from our friendly, easy to use Emporium. 

The Assumption in Canberra

The bitterly cold, wet and windy Canberra night, we are delighted to report, did not dissuade 63 loyal Foulcher followers from turning out to hear Susan Hampton undertake the home town launch of John Foulcher’s new collection The Sunset Assumption on Thursday 9th August.   Including most if not all of Canberra’s poetry heavyweights.  Watch our Facebook pages for the photographic evidence.

Spectacular Melbourne Sunset

The Pitt Street push headed south for winter last Thursday for the launch of our first book-length collection of new poetry – John Foulcher’s The Sunset Assumption.

Around 40 people convened at the local sacred site – aka Kris Hemensley’s Collected Works bookshop in Swanston Street – to hear Robyn Rowland undertake the panegyric – and a fine old job she made of it too.

If you missed it, well the photos over on our Facebook page capture the mood quite nicely, and there’s absolutely nothing to stop you buying a copy of the book on line right here at our Emporium.

And it’s certainly not too late to join us for the Canberra launch by Susan Hampton.

Paperchain Bookshop Manuka
6-8pm Thursday August 9th