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2008 Tasmanian Book Fair
Sunday 24 August 2008, 10am - 4pm, IXL Atrium, Hunter Street, Hobart. Pardalote Press will have its many outstanding poetry titles on display and available for purchase.
A highlight of the Book Fair will be the launch by Dr Pete Hay of Karen Knight's award-winning collection, Postcards from the Asylum. 1.30 pm.
'Isle of Poets'
Karen will also be a guest on the panel 'Isle of Poets', along with James Charlton (So Much Light), Esther Ottaway and Sarah Day. Sunday 24 August 2008, 2.15 pm at the Henry Jones Art Hotel, 25 Hunter St, Hobart
Interactive talk: "The Ruin of Contemporary Poetry"
Earlier that day - Sun 24 August 2008 at 10 am, you can hear James Charlton's interactive talk, "The Ruin of Contemporary Poetry" over coffee and a light breakfast in Fullers AfterWord Café - 140 Collins Street, Hobart. Charlton's talk will begin with a look at what is perhaps the most famous Russian icon painted 500 years ago by Andrei Rublev. info@fullersbookshop.com.au
Gina Mercer at the 2008 Queensland Poetry Festival
Gina Mercer will be one of the featured guest readers at the 2008 Queensland Poetry Festival: Spoken in One Strange Word which will be held in Brisbane 22nd -24th August. Immediately after that she will fly to Sydney to take up a position as writer-in-residence at Macquarie University (Mon 25th August - Friday 12th September). While at Macquarie University she will give readings, lectures, workshops and individual consultations with creative writing students.
Ron Moss at the 2008 Queensland Poetry Festival and exhibition
Ron Moss (Watersmeet) will also be a guest at The Queensland Poetry Festival and, with the other Tasmanian haiku poets, will have work featured in a haiga collaboration with Hunter Island Press. The exhibition, Breath Marks, a display of haiga: a combination of haiku and image that captures a moment of being in words and art. Rosny Library Foyer, Bligh Street, Rosny 11th - 23rd August.
Writers' Block/Mixed Emulsion
15 - 24 August: Many of the Watersmeet poets are featured in a collaboration, Writers' Block/Mixed Emulsion between the artists from the 2008 TAFE Printmaking and Photography Studios and Eastern Shore Writers at the Schoolhouse Gallery and Barn, Rosny Farm, Rosny Hill Rd, Tasmania.
Zen Zone - a Haiga exhibition
Jodie Hawthorne (Watching Pilgrims, Watching Me) will also have a haiga exhibition during Tasmanian Living Writers' Week.
Zen Zone - a Haiga exhibition 15th-24th August
Opening Night of exhibit: 6.30-8.30pm @ Entally Estate, Hadspen
Haiku workshops
Jodie will also be giving haiku workshops at Entally Estate on Wednesday 20th August at 11am and Saturday 23rd August at 11am
Launch of facepack
15th August 5.30 pm - Colville Street Art Gallery 54 Colville Street, Battery Point, Tasmania. Sarah Day will launch Sue Moss's facepack. Pardalote Press is proud to offer Sue's facepack as a hosted title on this site.
Ian Johnston at the Poetry Discussion Group
17th September 2-4pm Ian Johnston will be the guest speaker at the Poetry Discussion Group, Adult Education, Church St North Hobart. Ian will speak about translating Chinese poetry and read from Singing of Scented Grass: verses from the Chinese, and his new work in progress - Waiting for the Owl. For more information, contact Megan Schaffner:
On 26 March, Radio National's Book Show featured a review by Geoff Page of James Charlton's So Much Light. You can read the transcript here.
Karen Knight, author of Under the One Granite Roof: poems for Walt Whitman, has won The Alec Bolton Award for an unpublished manuscript, awarded by Arts ACT. Pardalote Press is delighted to announce that it will publish this collection, Postcards from the Asylum, later this year.
Haiku poets, Beverley George, Peter Macrow, Graham Nunn, Doris Reeve and Lyn Reeves will feature in a two-part edition of Poetica on ABC's Radio National in June. For a great deal on the haiku books featuring these poets see our Special Haiku Savings.
The poets of Watersmeet are taking part in a collaboration with Hunter Island Press printmakers. The resulting illustrated haiku, Breath Marks, will be on display at Rosny Library, Bligh Street, Rosny Park, during Tasmanian Living Writers' Week from 11th - 23rd August 2008.
If you are in Melbourne you can purchase Pardalote Press books from Collected Works, Level 1, Nicholas Building 37 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000, Australia Telephone (613+) 9654 8873, email collectedworks@lycos.com, web http://www.collectedworks-poetryideas.blogspot.com/
New from Pardalote Authors:
Peter Macrow (Oil Slick Sun) has a new chapbook, Thuck, available from Picaro Press. Email jandr@hunterlink.net.au.
Gina Mercer and Lyn Reeves are two of four poets featured in the anthology Seasoned with Honey which won the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers national award for an anthology by a writing group. The collection, which also includes sections by Hobart poets Anne Collins and Mary Jenkins, will be launched at Hobart Bookshop on 8th May and is one of Pardalote Press's hosted titles. Walleah Press will also publish a chapbook by Lyn Reeves, The Ink Brushed Distance, also available as a hosted title on this site.
Also, check out the hosted titles for a wonderful collection from Esther Ottaway - Blood Universe.
Forthcoming from Pardalote Press:
For all those who loved Singing of Scented Grass: verses from the Chinese, a new book of translations of ancient Chinese poetry by Ian Johnston is in progress. Waiting for the Owl has an expected release date of early 2009. Its production is assisted by a grant from Arts Tasmania.
James Charlton's new poetry collection So Much Light, will be launched by Catherine Schulz at Fullers Bookshop, 140 Collins St, Hobart - 2pm, Sunday 21 October.
Sunday 4th November - Republic Bar & Café, cnr Elizabeth & Burnett Sts, North Hobart, 3 - 5pm: Pardalote Press celebrates seven years of publishing poetry with readings by James Charlton, Gina Mercer, Ian Johnston, Karen Knight, Peter Macrow and the haiku poets from Watersmeet.
Pardalote Press poets continue to be in demand at literary readings and events around the country.
The September poetry readings at the Republic Bar & Café in North Hobart (Sunday 2nd September, 3 - 5pm) celebrate National Poetry Week with readings by Karen Knight, Lyn Reeves and future Pardalote poet, Stuart Solman, along with Louise Oxley and Esther Ottaway.
At this year's Queensland Poetry Festival three of Pardalote's poets, Karen Knight, Graham Nunn and Lyn Reeves will be among the featured readers.
The Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word is Australia's finest annual poetry festival and is recognised world wide as a major literary event. Graham is also a featured guest at The Brisbane Writers' Festival, September 12 -16.
The following month Lyn will be a guest at The Tasmanian Poetry Festival in Launceston (October 5 - 7). Eric Beach, Pardalote Press's first poet, is also an invited guest. Eric will then travel to Hobart for a series of readings and workshops.
Gina Mercer will be a featured writer at the 2007 Watermark Literary Muster: Tues Oct 2 - Sat Oct 6 - Writers & readers exploring the nature & place of migration.
After reading and celebrating the release of her new poetry collection, Handfeeding the Crocodile, Gina will travel to the beautiful central coast of NSW where she will be a guest at a Literary Lunch hosted by author of Spinifex, Beverley George.
Jodie Hawthorne was a guest reader at Eltham Bookshop's New Voices Festival in July. Jodie introduced each session on the program with a reading from Watching Pilgrims Watching Me.
Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship
Karen Knight is the 2006 winner of the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship, awarded annually to a highly original poet by the Varuna Writer's Centre and the Eleanor Dark Foundation. As part of her prize Karen will travel to Scotland in April to take up a three-week residency: two weeks in Edinburgh and then a week in the Hebrides with the UNESCO City of Literary Exchange Program.
Read about Karen's highly original collection, Under the One Granite Roof: poems for Walt Whitman here.
Pardalote Press also congratulates Karen on receiving a new work grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for her next collection of poems.
Haiku Pacific Rim Conference 2007
Beverley George, author of Spinifex: haiku and President of HaikuOz, will be speaking at the Haiku Pacific Rim Conference 2007 in Matsuyama, Japan in March. Her collection of haiku is available from Pardalote Press.
Interview with Jodie Hawthorne
Read an interview with Jodie Hawthorne, author of Watching Pilgrims Watching Me.
Spinifex: haiku released
Pardalote Press is pleased to announce the release of Spinifex: haiku by the President of the Australian Haiku Society, Beverley George. Containing many of her prize-winning haiku and sequences, this collection is a 'benchmark in Australian haiku' (John Bird).
Forthcoming - March 2007
Handfeeding the Crocodile - a new collection of poetry by the editor of Island, is due for release in March 2007.
Haiku book launch
On Sunday 20th August Pardalote Press released the fifth in its series of haiku books. Jodie Hawthorne spoke about her life in the remote Deqen Tibetan Region and the experiences that inspired the haiku moments in her book, Watching Pilgrims Watching Me: haiku from Shangri-la at Fullers AfterWord Café in Hobart. Photographs of the region, and the original illustrations by Anna Xue Yang, were on display. The collection is a distillation of Jodie's experiences in Tibet, and like Pardalote Press's other haiku titles, makes a beautiful gift for poetry-lovers.
Tasmanian Living Writers' Week
During Tasmanian Living Writers' Week four members of Watersmeet Haiku Group were invited to compose haiku and write them on a bookshop window in Hobart.
Read about this event at HaikuOz.
PayPal for easier on-line purchasing
Pardalote Press now has PayPal functionality for easier on-line purchasing. But you can still print and post an order form if you prefer.
Bookshops who would like to find out about our terms for booksellers, please contact info@pardalote.com.au.