“It’s about becoming attentive, slowing the mind to create space for a poem to breathe. I am in dialogue with mystery, time, and with space.”
“For me writing poetry has always been a fairly personal act, and never been about editing for opacity and making a work easy-to-understand, but sometimes there are ideas and themes that I definitely want a reader to understand.”
Where do our stories come from? What are these tales we know, speak, understand, and replicate? Where do the words go? What do they do, or undo? What do they leave undone? When and how do we return to a place without words?
Buckle up! July is another month packed full of literary events from festivals and book launches, to panel talks and book clubs.
We chatted to songwriter, poet and novelist Pip Smith, ahead of her course Online: Poetry, about what helps her get ideas onto the page, where to find your writing community and how poetry can wake language like nothing else.
Access our first online Talking Writing event, via podcast, video or transcript. The event featured Tracy Sorensen, Peter Polites, Robin M Eames and Eunice Andrada, as they discuss writing the body.
‘Some of these passages have edges as sharp as new knives while others are soft as freshly fallen snow’ – Dr Beatriz Copello reviews The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr.
We might be staying at home this month, but that doesn’t mean you can’t engage with some fantastic literary discussions! Pull out your laptop and support writers with some of these great virtual events. This list is updated periodically so you can keep up to date with what’s happening in our (digital) literary communities.
There’s plenty happening around the state this March.
So you better get pencilling!
