WITNESS MELBOURNE'S POETRY FEVER

This blog is especially for Melbourne's longer poetry
postings - all on one page - keep on scrolling down....

BUT FIRST

TO KEEP CURRENT WITH MELBOURNE'S POETRY SCENE
the full story....
THE MELBOURNE POETRY GIG GUIDE 2008
HOME PAGE:
http://pamspoetrypitchblog.blogspot.com/

Full details of Melbourne's regular poetry listings
(updated daily) weekly / fortnightly / monthly /
bi-monthly (plus one-offs, launches & special events)


LONGER POETRY LISTINGS BEGIN HERE:

The Love Poetry Hate Racism anthology

is calling for submissions of poetry,

photographs and visual art

from all over the globe!

LPHR is an annual inter-national poetry event,

founded by the Belfast Poets.

Every year, poetry groups in cities

all over the world hold a poetry event

on the same weekend to celebrate

multiculturalism and acceptance,

and to defy discrim-

ination of all forms.

For more information about these

events, visit...

http://www.myspace.com/lovepoetryhateracism

The LPHR anthology will be

distributed as a printed zine and

made available in PDF form online.

To submit your work, please email

up to three poems in the body of an email

or images in JPEG form to:

walaa003@students.unisa.edu.au

by NOVEMBER 21st 2008.

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Dear Cordite subscribers,
Our latest issue, 28: Secret Cities, is now online.
Visit: http://www.cordite.org.au>

for full contents of the issue.

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FIVE ISLANDS PRESS
News in Brief – JUNE 2008
* Established in 1986, a new chapter
in the history of Five Islands Press is underway
with the publishing team of
Kevin Brophy, Dan Disney, Lyn Hatherly,
Ella Holcombe, and Lucy Holt.
The aim, as always, is the publication
of fine Australian poetry.
* Our website is now at
http://www.fiveislandspress.com
Check out the website for full details
of recent and forthcoming books.

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PCOMING OPPORTUNITIES
for UP-AND-COMING WRITERS & ARTISTS
from VOICEWORKS/EXPRESS MEDIA:
Creating quality

literary/arts/ media opportunities

for young & emerging artists since 1988.
1 October 2008
Nanoworkshops at

the National Young Writers Festival
(Newcastle, October 2-6)
Voiceworks presents workshops on:
Writing Poetry
Online Journalism
Short Stories
Editing
&
Reviewing.
PLUS:
Help us to produce

our annual TiNA zine, Nanoworks.
See the NYWF program online for details.

SORRY BAD LINK

Voiceworks Readers’ Group -

Saturday October 18
2 to 4pm.
State Library Conference Centre
Seminar Room 1,
Entry 3, La Trobe Street, Melbourne,
See our website for details.

http://www.expressmedia.org.au/events.php

Express Media Workshops

Spring Series
Wednesday 8 October:

Freelance Writing with Richard Watts
See our website for registration and details.

http://www.expressmedia.org.au/workshops.php

New Stockists & Subscribe Online
Voiceworks is now available

in 60 new stores across the country!
See our website for stockist locations.

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http://www.expressmedia.org.au/vw_buy.php

And you can now subscribe online!

Click here

to subscribe now.

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http://www.expressmedia.org.au/content.php?content_ id=468
– From the editor’s desk.
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Tom Rigby – Voiceworks Editor

Express Media
247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000

Ph: +61 3 9663 4155
Fax: +61 3 9663 4544
Email : editor@expressmedia .org.au
Web: http://www.expressm edia.org. au

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SUSTAIN,

a national sustainability magazine
with a circulation over 10,000,
is open to contributions of poetry and
creative prose relevant to the spring
(‘Education and Food’) and summer
(‘Home’) issues for 2008. Editor Tim
Metcalf. Maximum 300 words.
Just copy and paste your piece
into the body of your e-mail to
sustaincreativity@sustain.org.au,
and
type SUSTAIN CREATIVITY
as the subject of your message.
SUSTAIN regrets that no payment can be
offered.
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"ROARHOUSE"
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Roarhouse promotes Arts/Music participation
opportunities to all people including people
who are marginalised and people
challenged with Mental Illness.
MARJETKA
CO-ORDINATOR ROARHOUSE
E: marjetka@optusnet.com.au
M: 0400334076
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ROARHOUSE- THE HOUSE OF DIVERSITY
EXPRESSION & DIFFERENCE
http://www.roarhouse.org/

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Sleepers
Advocates for new and established writers

Publishers of the Sleepers Almanac

Coordinators of the Sleepers Salons

For all your literary emergencies...

PO Box 1204 Collingwood 3066
http://www.sleeperspublishing.com/

&

03 9417 0686
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Cottonmouth is a new spoken word
narrative art project coming out of Perth,

Western Australia.
In an attempt to break out from
the isolation of this far flung city,
Cottonmouth has adopted

a very unique format -

it is part performance night,
part publicaiton, part podcast.
This means that Cottonmouth has,

at its heart,
a national perspective.
Therefore, it is looking for

national content for its zine,
COTTTONMOUTH.
This zine is now open for submissions.
There are a few simple guidelines:
- submit two poems of no more

than 60 lines each.
- submit four smaller poems
if they are no more than 15 lines each.
- submit ficition or non fiction of no more
than 1200 words max.
- submit up to four illustrations

in black and white,
300dpi and suitable for publication.
- ALL WORK must be accompanied

with a 50 word bio.
please remember to include

weblinks in your bios
if you wish to draw readers attention
to your work online. - each piece submitted
must be in a separate attachment.
- bio can appear in body of email but must
also appear as separate attachment also.
- rtfs, word documents and jpegs
are preferred form of attachment.
- please include postal address

if you wish to receive
a copy of the zine

and you're unable to attend
COTTONMOUTH, which occurs on the
second thursday of every month at the
Rosemount Hotel's Bar 459 on the corner of
Fitzgerald and Angove streets in North Perth.
- please email all work to
info@cottonmouth. org.au
and remember that this is

a monthly publication,
so work may appear in one or two issues

depending.
Thank you for your time.
For more information please visit
http://www.cottonmouth.org.au
(sorry - there is a problem with this link)
and check out readings from previous nights,
videos of performers and the unique
body of work that is our Pegline Project.
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"Auckland based poet Christian Jensen is a global
nomad and hermit, born and raised between the
glacier gnawn mountains and fjords of Norway.
After publishing the small book 'Zin Uru' and
a few chapbooks he has decided it is time to
spread the word and bridge the gap
between Auckland and Melbourne poets.
Christian is an organizer of Poetry Live,
the largest poetry venue in Auckland. He has
also spearheaded the Transient poetry movement
in New Zealand and is the founder of the
Guerilla Poets of Auckland." Check out:
http://nzpoetsonlin e.homestead. com/CJ18. html
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Message from:

Tom Morrow Ed.
Enough ! Magazine #1
Greetings all,
I am pleased to annouce that the first
issue of Enough! Magazine has arrived.
Weighing in at a humble 17A4 spreads,
it houses 2 essays, 2 short stories,
8 poems, a comic, an 'events' section,
a 'regualr rant', and a crossword.
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Many thanks to the contributors:
Raymondo, Ed Burger, Sparx,
Pamela Sidney, Michael Groth,
Athena Dennis, Oskr Wyldkat,
and Ren Yellam.
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Zines are currently being
scattered around the country.
Locations include:
(Melb.) The Dan O'Connell,
Spinning Room, Sticky,
Peril Underground,
(Syd.) Red Eye Records -
and this list will soon grow

(visit http://groups.myspace.com/

enough magazine for updates).
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They are available 'by donation' ($3-$4)
or you might be able to score one
of the many free copies laying around
at train stations, cafes, universities, etc.
You can also order direct from
Email:
enoughmagazine@yahoo.com.au,
or just bug one of the contributors
until they cough up.
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And this is not the end -
quite the contrary,
for Enough #2 is on the cards
for late this year, or early next,
so keep sending me work.
Cheers
Tom Morrow - ed.

The Melbourne Institute of Pataphysical Studies
http://www.patafisica.net/
http://www.myspace.com/instituteofpataphysics
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Watch out for coming productions

contact: Hernan @

patanet@gmail.com
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Message from John Robertson United Kingdom
(John has been generously gifting this website
to me & Melbourne's poets for some years now )
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Hello writers for Film and TV & Producers
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Please go to my site and see if you can make
a TV/Movie Drama or Documentary
from selected parts.
Some of my inventions will work and some
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none of us know the outcome.
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Patent Applications are in the pipeline.
I need a small royalty to start putting the
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My patent agent filed a Trade Mark
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Most of all we need a quick start - before
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I look forward to your reply,
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John Robertson
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