https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/07/12/after-cage-is-launched/
Listen to the launch of Dominique Hecq’s amazing 2nd edition of After Cage (Liquid Amber Press, 2022) by Marion May Campbell
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July Poetry zoom, Dominique Hecq’s After Cage
Liquid Amber Press is delighted to publish the second edition of Dominique Hecq’s book of experimental poetry After Cage – a serial composition in word and movement on time and silence.
Join us on 7 July, 7.30pm AEST, for the zoom launch by Marion May Campbell where she will also be in conversation with Dominique about her radical poetics. Don’t miss this special poetry event – a feast of words and ideas both for practicing poets and for all of us listening, reading and thinking about poetry.
As ever, we have a tremendous line-up of open mics including our new ‘poet in the spotlight’ feature.
It’s free! Register here: https://liquidamberpress.com.au/events/
Review of This Shuttered Eye in Westerly
Thanks to Lucy Dougan for such a thoughtful review of my collection, This Shuttered Eye in the current issue of Westerly. See the Liquid Amber page for access to the review, some poetry readings and how to buy the book: https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/06/18/what-is-seen-and-what-is-not/
I’m delighted to see a review by Dominique Hecq of my most recent book, This Shuttered Eye, published first by Girls on Key and then by Liquid Amber 2021. Scroll down to p. 24 to read Dominique’s review in Text: https://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/35479-text-reviews-april-2022.
With a painter’s deft touch inseparable from an awareness that every brush stroke matters, Rose Lucas’s This Shuttered Eye is a masterclass in the use of telling detail. The eye in the title of the collection looks ‘into the texture of the seen’ (p. 13), seeking ‘deep shades’ and how these are in turn captured by the looker’s ‘shuttered’ gaze, creating a haze between the visible and the invisible. Here the eye is akin to a camera that reveals both studium and punctum in a picture [1]. But here the eye also unshutters the outer and inner worlds as these are filtered through experience and in the process of writing.
Review of Lockdown Poetry in Rochford Street Review
We’re really excited to see this terrific review of Liquid Amber’s 2021 anthology Lockdown Poetry: The Covid Long Haul out in Rochford Street Review today. Thanks to Mark Roberts of Rochford Street, Sharon Monagle for the striking cover image and to Belinda Calderone for her thoughtful reading of this collection of wonderful poems from the Liquid Amber poetry community. We are still writing into and out of the strange hiatus we found ourselves in!
World Poetry Day at the Geelong Library
Thanks to Yvonne Adami, the terrific team at the beautiful Geelong Library, fellow poets David McCooey, Jo Langdon and Cameron Lowe and emcee John Bartlett for a wonderful night of poetry celebration. Lovely to be in the space together!
World Poetry Day at the Geelong Library, Monday March 21
I’m thrilled to be reading alongside these terrific poets next Monday March 21, 6-8pm. Please register here and join us – we’ll be there in person!!
March Poetry Zoom – this Thursday!
Poetry lovers – don’t forget the Liquid Amber March Poetry Zoom coming up this Thursday March 17, 7.30-9.30 AEDT. Whoohoo! Be part of our growing community of those who love to write and read poetry and those who love to listen to it: We’ve got a great line-up of open mic-ers ready to go + our feature poet Mark O’Flynn is reading from his new book Undercoat: Poems about Paintings, to be launched by Peter Minter. See you there for a great night!
Register here for your free zoom link: https://liquidamberpress.com.au/events/
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Join our free March Poetry Zoom!
Register now for the Liquid Amber March Poetry Zoom and be part of our growing community of those who love to write and read poetry and those who love to listen to it: Thursday March 17, 7.30-9.30 AEDT.
We’ve got a great line-up of open mic-ers ready to go + our feature poet Mark O’Flynn is reading from his new book Undercoat: Poems about Paintings, to be launched by leading Australian poet, Peter Minter. See you there for a great night! Sign up here for your free zoom link: https://liquidamberpress.com.au/events/
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Liquid Amber Press Poetry Prize 2022 – ENCOUNTER
The Liquid Amber 2022 Poetry Prize is now open!
What moments startle us out of our ways of understanding ourselves and the world? What might it mean to encounter the strange skin of the unexpected?
Step out. Take a risk. Write about it.
All poets are invited to join in by exploring the theme ‘The Poetry of Encounter’ – through a provocation of images and words.
Entry form, guidelines and provocation sheet here: https://liquidamberpress.com.au/2022/02/08/2022-poetry-prize-encounter/
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