The Poetry Resource

We’re coming up to two years of operation at The Poetry Resource and we’d love to hear suggestions of new poets to add to our database. Who would you like to see added or even interviewed?

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Australian outfit PressPress have announced a Chapbook award with entries open from today.

Chris Mansell from PressPress: “I’m thinking it would be the sort of thing that new poets might like (small collection) or more experienced ones who might have a collection that is not big enough for a standard book but might go the 32pp of a chapbook.

The conditions and entry form are on the PressPress site.

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1. Complete Review
- basic bio
- reviews of most of Hill’s published works

2. poetrymagazines.co.uk
- excellent review of Hill’s ‘The Triumph of Love’ entitled ‘“Pardon?”: Our Problem with Difficulty (and Geoffrey Hill)’.

3. literaryhistory.com
- useful bibliography and some links

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1. Australian Poet
- O’Connor’s official site

2. ABC
- short piece on O’Connor as 2000 Olympics poet.

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1. Selected Poems by M. Miriam Herrera

Description: A Collection of poetry from Kaddish for Columbus: Images of nature, life, and folklore from American, Native American, crypto-Jewish (anusim), & Chicano cultures

Besides the collection of poetry, it also contains quality link pages in poetry, publishing, Chicano and Native American studies, and crypto-Judaic studies of the American Southwest

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Please bear with us over the coming week or so - we’ve just migrated the site from Joomla to WordPress and there’s quite a bit of work cleaning a few things up. Once that’s done there’ll be much more regular updates and addition of new poets.

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The New Yorker recently published a fascinating discussion on the work of Les Murray. Well worth a read!

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1. Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee
- official website

2. Literary Heritage West Midlands

- brief biography

3. Poem Hunter

- selection of Adam Lindsay Gordon’s poems

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1. Wikipedia- Brief bio but main reward is the links at bottom of page - one of the better Wikipedia entries

2. Adam Aitken’s Cambodia Diary- a blog commenced in May 2007

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We’re pleased to announce we’ve revamped our discussion forum. It’s designed so poets and their work can be discussed / debated in a friendly environment as well as providing a forum for people to ask questions about specific poems etc. Enjoy!

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Poetry International have published a fascinating article by David McCooey entitled ‘Surviving Australian Poetry - definitely worth a read.

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1. Connor Court Publishing

2. The Rathouse

- a brief biography

3. Wikipedia

- another brief biography.

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1. Frederick Seidel Official Site

- contains a number of audio files of Seidel reading his poetry

2. The Nation

- 2002 profile of Seidel

3. Albuquerque Tribune

- 2007 profile of Seidel

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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. The festival incorporates Arts Queensland’s Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry and The Thomas Shapcott Award for an unpublished manuscript. The programme showcases the work of the annual ‘Poet in Residence’ and a range of exciting local, national and international artists from around the world.

Click here for the Festival website.

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The Dorothy Rosenberg Poetry Prize for 2006 was announced on February 5th 2007.

Dove Rengger-Thorpe of Lismore NSW, Felicity Plunkett of Wooloowin Queensland and Chloe Green of Clagiraba Queensland featured in the prizewinners list.

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