My poem ‘Dune Shadows’ has been chosen by the judge of this year’s Poetica Christi Press poetry competition for inclusion in the 2018 anthology ‘Interludes’. The poem was originally inspired by an oil painting of the same title by John Whitelaw (shown left), and was performed in December 2017 at an ekphrastic poetry event at the Boathouse Art Gallery in Frankston.
You can read the poem on the Extract of the Month page, here.
Ginninderra Press is celebrating 10 years in Adelaide with an anthology of poems, chosen from poets published by them.
The anthology is available here.
My poem ‘Invasion’ (published in the Pocket Poets collection ‘Second Person Singular’) is included in the anthology. Two other poets from the Mornington poetry workshop ‘Peninsula Poetica’, Avril Bradley and Ann Simic, are also included. All three of us descended on Adelaide in July, to attend the launch and read our poems.
My poem ‘You Are…’ won first prize in the Society of Women Writers’ Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize. The poem is included in my current collection ‘Lines Waving’, and will also be published in the second edition of the SWWV Journal ‘Sparx’, which is due to be launched at the end of November.
We now have copies available of my new Poetry collection, ‘Lines Waving’. This is my third poetry book, my second full-length collection.
It’s available online at the Lulu site, link here
In due course, it will also be available on Amazon and as an e-book.
The cover design is by my grand-daughter Penelope Ritter-Jones, who did the design for my Ginninderra Press Pocket Poets booklet, ‘Second Person Singular’. It follows a similar structure to my own design for my first collection, ‘Lines Dancing’.
All three books are available through the BOOKS page on this site.
I’ve been listed as one of the finalists in the Hunter Writers Centre ‘Grieve 2017’ competition, and my poem ‘Glass’ will be published in the anthology of the same name.
The first issue of ‘Sparx’, the Literary Journal of the Society of Women Writers Victoria, has now been launched. There will be two issues per year, showcasing members’ work and publishing winning entries in SWWV competitions.
My prize-winning article ‘The Right Direction’, about directing for the stage, is included in this issue.
Shakespeare Club logo
The Shakespeare Club of Western Australia ran a competition this year in honour of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. It was for a sonnet, in classical Shakespearean form, with a Western Australian theme. My sonnet, ‘The Wild Geese’, about the American ship Catalpa’s rescue of Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol in 1876, won the $200 second prize.
The judge’s comments and an account of the award ceremony are available here
