Jazz in Concert at The Gods 2008

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Poetry at The Gods 2008

Tues Feb 12 John Tranter (Sydney) Joanne Burns (Sydney)
Tues Mar 11 Les Murray (Bunyah)
Tues Apr 8 Hilary Elfick (NZ & UK) Mark O’Connor (Canberra)
Tues May13 Tracy Ryan (WA, US & UK) Jan Owen (Adelaide)
Tues Jun 10 Nicola Bowery (Braidwood) Andrew McDonald (Canberra)
Tues Jul 8 Diane Fahey (Geelong) Jane Gibian (Sydney)
Tues Jul 22 Dead Poets’ Dinner
Tues Aug 12 John Foulcher (Canberra) S.K. Kelen (Canberra)
Tues Sep 9 Esther Ottaway (Hobart) Peter Rose (Melbourne)
Tues Oct 28 Peter Porter (UK) Geoff Page (Canberra)
Tues Nov 11 Mike Ladd (Adelaide) Paul Magee (Canberra)
Tues Dec 9 Philip Salom (Melbourne) John Leonard (Canberra)
Light meals are available from 6pm. Please book at The Gods on
6248 5538. Entry fee: $5. Patrons intending to eat are asked to arrive by 6.30 to ensure that the readings can begin at 8pm. Seating is limited to 80 people. To be sure of hearing a particular poet it is advisable to eat at the venue beforehand but ‘listening only’ seats can also be booked.

 

Poets;
Joanne Burns has published fourteen collections of her highly satirical and entertaining poetry, most recently An Illustrated History of Dairies (Giramondo) and Footnotes of a Hammock (Five Islands Press)
John Tranter lives in Balmain. He has now published twenty collections of poetry, most recently his new and selected poems, Urban Myths: 210 Poems (UQP 2006). He is also the editor of the free internet magazine Jacket at http://jacketmagazine.com.
Les Murray is Australia’s best known living poet. His most recent books are The Biplane Houses and Selected Poems (both Black Inc)
Hilary Elfick divides her time between NZ and the UK. Among her recent books are The Wedding Poem (2002) and Attending to the Fact (2004)
Mark O’Connor is also well-known as an environmentalist. His selected poems, The Olive Tree, are published by Hale & Iremonger.
Jan Owen’s Collected Poems (1980-2008) are due out this year from John Leonard Press. She lives at Aldinga Beach near Adelaide.
Tracy Ryan lives in WA, the UK and the USA. Her most recent books are Hothouse and Scar Revision (both Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
Nicola Bowery’s second poetry collection was published this year. She lives in Braidwood and runs many poetry workshop weekends.
Andrew McDonald moved to Canberra a couple of years ago. He had a book with UQP in the 1970s (Absence in Strange Countries) and another in 1984 (The One True History). He also works in counselling.
Diane Fahey’s eighth poetry collection, Sea Wall and River Light, was joint winner of the artsACT Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2007. Her most recent book, a novel, is The Mystery of Rosa Morland, (Australian Scholarly Press).
Jane Gibian's most recent collection is Ardent (Giramondo, 2007). In 2002, she was an Asialink Literature Resident in Hanoi, Vietnam. She works in Sydney as a librarian and ESL teacher.
The Dead Poets’ Dinner (Ties July 22) is a well-established Canberra event where poets and poetry lovers meet to present a couple of poems by their favourite dead poets to an appreciative audience. It will include a substantial two-course meal, including espresso coffee, for $25. There is no entry fee. Bookings directly to The Gods on 6248 5538. Reading order is on a ‘first-in first-served’ booking sheet on the night but not everyone needs to read.
John Foulcher has produced seven collections, most recently The Learning Curve. He has a new collection due out in mid-2008 from Halstead Press. He is also deputy principal at Bishop Burgmann College in Gungahlin.
S.K. Kelen’s most recent collection is Earthly Delights (Pandanus Books). He recently gained his PhD in Creative Writing and teaches at the University of Canberra.
Esther Ottaway was the winner of a Poets Union Young Poets Fellowship in 2006. She lives in Tasmania, with her jazz musician husband and young daughter. Her first book, Blood Universe (Poets Union)
Peter Rose’s most recent poetry collection is Rattus Rattus (Salt). He has also published a memoir (The Rose Boys) and fiction. He is the editor of Australian Book Review.
Peter Porter, who has worked in the UK since the early 1950s, will be publishing his fifteenth collection early in 2009. His two more recent books, Max is Missing (2001) and Afterburner (2004) are available from Picador.
Geoff Page’s most recent books are Lawrie & Shirley: The Final Cadenza (Pandanus Books); 80 Great Poems from Chaucer to Now (UNSW Press) and Seriatim (Salt, UK). He is also the organiser of this series.
Mike Ladd was born in the US but grew up in Adelaide where he produces the Poetica program for ABC Radio National. His most recent books are Transit (Five Islands Press 2007) and Shacklife (Picaro Press 2006)
Paul Magee’s first book of poetry, Cube Root of Book, was published in Melbourne by John Leonard Press in 2006. He is also teaches at the University of Canberra
Philip Salom was born in Western Australia. He now teaches Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. His most recent books are The Well Mouth (FACP 2005) and the novel, Toccato and Rain (FACP 2004)
John Leonard lives in Canberra. His New and Selected Poems are due out from Salt (UK) in 2008. For some years he was poetry editor for Overland (and is not to be confused with the anthologist, John Leonard).