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What’s all this Post-it Note Poetry? 

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What’s all this Post-it Note Poetry? 

 2020 is the 8th year of Post-It Note Poetry. Not bad for something that started as a dare to write bad poetry on Post-it notes between Adam and Jodi.
Post-It Note Poetry runs everyday in February and is designed with two broad aims in mind:To encourage people of all skills sets and persuasions to explore and have fun with poetry - whether they are seasoned poets or curious souls attempting poetry for the first time since their teenage years.To create within a confined physical space (the size of a post-it note) as a  positive limitation. It is also a way of making poetry composition possible for 29 consecutive days.In 2020, The JAR Writers’ Collective will be hosting the event. Coordinated by Jodi Cleghorn in league with fellow Collective members and in concert with eight brilliant Post-It Note Ambassadors.
The rules are simple for those who'd like to play along at home (at work, on the bus or in any of those in between places perfect for scribbling poetic words on small squares of sticky paper)

 Hi, my dedicated readers,

An update of sorts.  The poetry writing has gone quiet chiefly because I am in my second or third year of full-time Teaching and Librarianship.

Ironically I teach more poetry than I write at the moment.

I do miss it.

So...

Post It Note Poetry is coming up for its 8th Year, and I have accepted a role as an ambassador for the project that got me into the space to write my first collection.

There will be a burst of activity here in February, and I hope this might translate to a trickle elsewhere.

You are forewarned.

Sean.

Long time no write.  I am... snowed under would be putting it mildly.  But I still found time to play around with a very short analysis of Poem by William Carlos Williams.

Ever consumed by the need to bend my creative efforts toward teaching, this video is aimed at the Year 9 /10 level English class. This of course means that it's probably peppered with spelling errors. 

Still it's offered here for your entertainment.
 

Booktopia has a free shipping deal running until midnight Tuesday.  So I 'd like to encourage you to spend some of that hard earned cash supporting Australian poets.

This link will take you to a general listing of Australian poets on Booktopia if you have time to wander.

But here are three that have jumped out at me:

Fume by Phillip Hall, recently launched at Melbourne's Collected Works.

Phillip Hall writes from the edge: the edge of language; the edge of mental illness; and, from the perspective of a non-Indigenous poet and teacher standing at the edge of Indigenous culture and community carrying generosity and love alongside the ongoing trauma of dispossession. This is a volume intensely interested in language and the self-care required in precarious lives.
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Eileen Chong's, Another Language from Brazillier which  I am currently enjoying.

The Booktopia blurb says:

Another Language features the work of a much celebrated, emerging immigrant poet. Eileen Chong is a writer of stirring lyric poetry as well as historical narratives and dramatic monologues. 

In a poetry informed by strands of experience, memory, and language linked to her Chinese past, she has created a new language, a new way of seeing and being Australian.




And finally The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky.  Zwicky passed away last year and this volume collects Fay Zwicky's body of poetic work from her seven books alongside poetry uncollected and unpublished.

Some quotes from other poets:

Zwicky is one of the world's finest poets; her sophistications of form and theme remind one of Akhmatova, Szymborska, Adrienne Rich and William Blake. With poise and control, she tracks the personal encounter with the weight of history and the obligation to declare a position. - JOHN KINSELLAIn her poetry, Zwicky, the ex-concert pianist, technically adroit, dramatic and profoundly serious, is there alongside the joker, the edgy ironist making wry asides against the world, patriarchy and herself. Her formal poems sit easily beside her mostly short-lined, tightly wrought free verse. Her cadences are a delight. - KATHERINE GALLAGHER 

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