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Sydney-siders (or very interested parties) may wish to look at this exhibition of artists books at the Art Gallery of NSW.

This exhibition examines the process of notation by two artists of their travels in Australia and overseas. There is a questioning of the forms such books may take and the many approaches to expressing content using both text and image.

The books range from collections of drawings or prints of a journey or place, to the ephemera of travel, or to images which the artist associates with a particular place. Both artists use a variety of materials and print techniques, ranging from intaglio and embossing by hand to computer printing, often on paper specifically made by hand for a particular book. A variety of bookbinding techniques will be used and considerable thought given to the display of the books with several presented in slip cases or sculptural boxes.

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Ivy Alvarez, an Australian poet currently living in Wales, has created these colourful and lyrical postcards. Originally published as part of the magazine Verse in issue 2005.2 of c-side, we feature them again here for your perusal.

Visit Part 1 or Part 2.

2006 - 80pp - papertiger media
Soi3 modern poets

Brisbane Poet Luke Beesley has published his first collection of poetry, the wonderful Lemon Shark. The collection features evocative and gently worded lyric poems that engage with love, writing and film. Courtesy of papertiger media, we are able to feature two poems from the collection, ‘Rip’ and ‘When the Silk’.

RIP

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Australian poets John Kinsella, Robert Adamson and Anthony Lawrence have finally brought poetry to the front page of a major Australian Newspaper.

The Sydney Morning Herald’s front page for 8 August 2006 features a vaseline-lens picture of the spindly, vegan and ex-pat academic/poet John Kinsella. He sits, poised in front what at first looks like a stained glass window but seems in fact to be a mural. All in all he looks rather psychedlic, if somewhat overly poetic and a little bit stupid. Below him runs an extended article, entitled: “War, blood, courts: it’s poets at arms”.

But is a bad photo enough to get you on the front page?

No. The article, which follows from an earlier interview concerning his new autobiography in the SMH’s arts, books and lifestyle supplement, Spectrum, goes on to describe how Kinsella has taken out a restraining order against Lawrence and Adamson following some threatening and (hopefully) highly metaphoric emails from his incensed fellow poets and (presumably) former friends. According to reports, they have been arriving at the rate of 30-40 per day.

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