tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25462385653838695262024-03-13T12:21:42.641+10:30Words Poeticalthe poetry of SB WrightSean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.comBlogger433125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-59495919321932243592020-02-06T07:30:00.000+10:302020-02-06T07:30:02.899+10:30Post-it Note Poetry Day 6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://afullnessinbrevity.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/post-it-note-poetry-2020/" target="_blank">What’s all this Post-it Note Poetry? </a></div>
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Sean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-71664022845170199012020-02-01T07:02:00.000+10:302020-02-01T07:02:05.066+10:30Post-it Note Poetry Day 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Post-It Note Poetry runs everyday in February and is designed with two broad aims in mind:</div>
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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.</div>
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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)</div>
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<span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">🖊</span> Write/build/create a poem every day of February.</div>
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<span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">🖊</span> Poems must fit on a post-it note (or be an equivalent sized poem - ie. no more than 8 lines on a larger backing).</div>
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<span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">🖊</span>Post poems to social media with the hashtag #pinp20.</div>
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<span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">🖊</span>Follow the hashtag and enjoy what others are creating.</div>
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Sean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-3454383280801403952020-01-21T08:58:00.000+10:302020-01-21T08:58:09.189+10:30Anyone home?<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-obhUOnUoLJA/XiYmxp07gAI/AAAAAAAAOKA/r0GJXr46mVU887xKTTh0jSSi1FHtwR2YwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/D3C929DE-1309-4761-B686-413BE21807BC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-obhUOnUoLJA/XiYmxp07gAI/AAAAAAAAOKA/r0GJXr46mVU887xKTTh0jSSi1FHtwR2YwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/D3C929DE-1309-4761-B686-413BE21807BC.jpeg" width="320" /></a>Hi, my dedicated readers,<br />
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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.<br />
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Ironically I teach more poetry than I write at the moment.<br />
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I do miss it.<br />
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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.<br />
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There will be a burst of activity here in February, and I hope this might translate to a trickle elsewhere.<br />
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You are forewarned.<br />
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Sean.<br />
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<br />Sean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-83034667053996636982018-04-19T15:11:00.002+09:302018-04-19T15:11:55.064+09:30Poem by William Carlos WilliamsLong 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 <i>Poem</i> by William Carlos Williams.<br />
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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. <br />
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Still it's offered here for your entertainment.<br />
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This <a href="https://t.dgm-au.com/c/59916/69172/1880?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booktopia.com.au%2Fbooks-online%2Fnon-fiction%2Fliterature-poetry-plays%2Fpoetry%2Findividual-poets%2FcDCF-p1.html%3Flist%3D10%26sorter%3Dpublished-en-dsc">link</a> will take you to a general listing of Australian poets on Booktopia if you have time to wander.<br />
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But here are three that have jumped out at me:<br />
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Eileen Chong's, <a href="https://t.dgm-au.com/c/59916/69172/1880?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booktopia.com.au%2Fanother-language-eileen-chong%2Fprod9780807600245.html">Another Language</a> from Brazillier which I am currently enjoying.<br />
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And finally <a href="https://t.dgm-au.com/c/59916/69172/1880?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booktopia.com.au%2Fthe-collected-poems-of-fay-zwicky-fay-zwicky%2Fprod9781742589329.html">The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky</a>. 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.<br />
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<i>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 KINSELLA</i></div>
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Not much poetry happening on the home front at the moment. My plans to dedicate myself to a writing regime have well and truly failed.<br />
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I did manage to scrawl some words this morning but it's a far cry from what I want to be doing (i.e. immersing myself in poetry - mine and others).<br />
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I did come across a very good interview by Alice Allan with poet and philosopher Ali Alizadeh. You should check it out.<br />
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<a href="http://poetrysays.com/ep-68-ali-alizadeh-on-power-influence-anxiety-and-hope/" target="_blank">Ep 68. Ali Alizadeh on power, influence, anxiety and hope</a><br />
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I found Alizadeh's polite frankness refreshing and would have liked to have listened to the podcast again (my iPad deleted it after playing it). What he said about the poetry scene in Australia probably has some truth about it - dominated by personalities, careerist etc. </div>
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A keen fan of the work Dave and Lizzy Turner do at Lunar Poetry Podcasts (and A Poem a Week Podcast). I just wanted to share the good news, that after much hard work on their behalf, 2018's list of interviews will be supported by an Arts Council England grant.<br />
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Podcasting in the Arts is always hard and no doubt runs off the passion of its creators (speaking as an on-hiatus Podcast producer myself). This funding means better quality audio files and enhances the ability of the Turners to travel for interviews.<br />
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Enjoy the latest podcasts below, then download the backlist, it's worth it.<br />
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Still I managed to pen some words, every now and then, to participate in Post-It Note Poetry. <br />
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Here are the collected works in chronological order:<br />
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These of course, were just my efforts: to see the combined Twitter collection please go to the <a href="https://sbwrightpoet.blogspot.com.au/p/post-it-note-poetry-archive-2015.html" target="_blank">Archive</a>Sean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-69371368384834742502018-02-17T13:28:00.002+10:302018-02-17T13:28:31.012+10:30 Salt Publishing relaunching single author collections<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Back when I was getting serious about my poetry (2012-2013) I had come across Salt Publishing who were well known for their <span style="background-color: white; color: #161515;"><a href="http://t.dgm-au.com/c/59916/69172/1880?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.booktopia.com.au%2Fbest-british-poetry-2015-emily-berry%2Fprod9781784630300.html" target="_blank">Best British Poetry </a>series. They also published single author/poet collections but for financial reasons they began closing down that side of their business, just as I had discovered them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #161515;">Publishing</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #161515;"> can be a strange beast and so I was surprised when </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #161515; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Christopher Hamilton-Emery announced that they would open up their list again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #161515; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 14px;">Back in the dark ages of May 2013, I announced that Salt was drawing back from publishing single author collections of poetry to concentrate on our flagship anthology series, Best British Poetry. It was a tough decision, but in some ways an easy one to make as the core publishing continued to lose money and each new title only seemed to contribute to our increasing losses. All arts publishing has its cycles. With some cycles, the wheels fall off. [<a href="https://www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/news/a-certain-vocation" target="_blank">Read On</a>]</span></blockquote>
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I suppose I had to get around to doing one of these.<br />
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The collection has been selling reasonably well (both commercially and through my blog) but I do want to do something a little special to mark the occasion.<br />
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So I will be travelling to Gawler Poets in the Pub on Sunday the 25th of March to do a reading and to sell some copies of the collection if you are interested.<br />
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I have had sneak peaks at the Zapruder and <b><i>Stairs and Whispers</i></b> and would sell an arm to get some time to sit, read and encode them.<br />
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As promised, <i>Magpie Tales </i>in eBook form is now available from <a href="https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/magpie-tales">Kobo</a> & <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/magpie-tales-sb-wright/prod9780987623263.html">Booktopia</a> for those of you that prefer the epub option.<br />
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If you missed the previous post on the Kindle release you can find in on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079K5J496">here</a>.<br />
<br />Sean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-9769714849431885902018-02-04T16:58:00.000+10:302018-02-04T16:58:03.860+10:30Post-it Note Poetry Poems 2 & 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You may view/purchase it<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079K5J496"> here</a> (for the princely sum of $3.51).<br />
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Other retailers should have the ebook soon.<br />
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<br />Sean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-52966322292220653072018-02-01T20:04:00.000+10:302018-02-01T20:04:17.566+10:30Post-It Note Poetry - Poem 1 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome to the first of my February posts for Post-It Note Poetry 2018.<br />
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If you are interested in joining in check out the instructions <a href="https://sbwrightpoet.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/post-it-note-poetry-returns-for-6th-year.html">here</a>.Sean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-19536924525011253502018-01-30T18:25:00.000+10:302018-01-31T18:55:13.632+10:30POST-IT NOTE POETRY RETURNS FOR A 6TH YEAR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Post-It Note Poetry (PINP), incepted
2012 as a writing dare, returns for its 6<sup>th</sup> year next
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Begun by writing partners, Adam Byatt and Jodi Cleghorn, the
dare was to write bad poetry on post it notes. From humble
beginnings, it quickly caught the quirk and imagination of poets and
non-poets alike across social media. Many foundation participants
return each year to exercise their micro poetry muscles.<br />
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The ‘rules’ are simple:</div>
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Write/build/create a poem every
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The poem must fit on a post-it
note (or be an equivalent sized poem -- ie. no more than 8 lines –
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Poem must adhere to the original
light-hearted spirit of permission to write badly – in which poems
can tackle serious content, but internal editors/critic all get a
break over February.</div>
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Post poems to social media with
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Follow the hashtag and enjoy what
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You can check out the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/460406284024429">Facebook page</a> (you'll have to join). You can checkout the Twitter Feed Archive<a href="https://sbwrightpoet.blogspot.com.au/p/post-it-note-poetry-archive-2015.html"> page</a>. Or you can wait until we all start posting Feb 1st on the 2018 Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/SeandBlogonaut/timelines/952399609636175872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><u>feed</u></span></a>
curated by myself or follow Jodi on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/soullyrical/">Instagram</a>.</div>
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Lot's of stuff going on at the moment.<br />
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Prep for heading back to school (running a library and teaching some new classes), keeping up with my artistic commitments and experimenting with digital poetics.<br />
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I attended a digital poetry course last weekend and I am tentatively having a go and seeing how the internet responds.<br />
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Digital poetry is proving to be a handful. Lots of skills to upgrade i.e. learning new apps, getting a very basic grounding in meshing words and pictures successfully.<br />
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The third instalment of my writing program is coming but until that time enjoy the picture and poem to your right(it was constructed using Pic Stitch). It's from my debut collection, a pantoum.<br />
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You can listen to me read it below.<br />
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<b>So, where to begin?</b><br />
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From the beginning I wanted to expand my knowledge, not only of the technical, nuts and bolts side of things, but also catch up a bit on the history and movements of poetry, the watershed essays and break out poets/poem.<br />
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To tap into my/our poetic heritage.<br />
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<b>The Basic Approach</b><br />
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Within this study component I followed this basic approach*:<br />
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Now when I began, I was working as a supply teacher (substitute/emergency etc) and money was tight. You can spend thousands of dollars on poetry technique and theory books but it's not vital. I started with online resources.</div>
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<b>Starting points for Theory</b><br />
The first of these was <i>The Poetry Foundation</i> and specifically their collection of <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/essays">Essays on Poetic Theory</a>, there's a couple of months worth of reading there no doubt. I found myself learning not just about poetry mind you, but larger societal movements as well.</div>
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There are hundreds if not thousands of articles online, written by a variety of people from those simply regurgitating, to those who have a much keener insight. My <a href="https://sbwrightpoet.blogspot.com.au/p/books-on-poetry.html">Books On Poetry</a> page lists some interesting books that could get you started, most of them should be in your library and all bar one are are entry level reads.</div>
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I will say that, there are a multitude of <b><i>How to Write a Poem</i></b> books, complete with exercises and advice, but none that I have come across with the depth of Mary Kinzie's <a href="http://t.dgm-au.com/c/59916/71095/1880?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.booktopia.com.au%2Fa-poet-s-guide-to-poetry-mary-kinzie%2Fprod9780226437392.html">A Poet's Guide to Poetry</a>. As an example of how fine this book goes, it had me considering word and letter choice in my poems for the individual effect of the sound a single letter can have on proceeding words. </div>
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I could give you lists of books, you could even recommend some in the comments, but I loved the organic approach that grew from this start. I could follow my own interests, divert off on tangents, create my own canon.<br />
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<b>Have you got any essays or texts that spoke to you? Feel free to list them in the comments. The Next part in this series will be the element </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Writing Poetry</b></span><br />
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<b>Poetry Process Series</b><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-esoB_jtbiuA/Wi4MPwPqBtI/AAAAAAAANz8/W6MhA6exzm0ETd0MouHfNdrymGYVQ_fWgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/sbw_mpt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-esoB_jtbiuA/Wi4MPwPqBtI/AAAAAAAANz8/W6MhA6exzm0ETd0MouHfNdrymGYVQ_fWgCPcBGAYYCw/s200/sbw_mpt.jpg" width="133" /></a>In<b> <em>Magpie Tales</em></b> Australian poet SB Wright reveals a keen eye for capturing both people and places, his deft imagery transports the reader effortlessly from rural Australia and beyond. The pieces within explore a changing inner landscape too, where the contested terrain of small town identities and national issues are played out in clear, lyrical verse.</div>
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<em><b>Magpie Tales</b></em> is his first poetry collection.<br />
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<i>Available in print</i>: Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Magpie-Tales-Sb-Wright/dp/0987623265" target="_blank">Aus</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Magpie-Tales-Sb-Wright/dp/0987623265" target="_blank">US</a> / <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Magpie-Tales-Sb-Wright/9780987623263?ref=grid-view&qid=1513988082908&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Book Depository</a> / <a href="http://t.dgm-au.com/c/59916/71095/1880?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booktopia.com.au%2Fmagpie-tales-sb-wright%2Fprod9780987623263.html" target="_blank">Booktopia</a> / <a href="https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/books/magpie-tales-s-b-wright/p/9780987623263" target="_blank">Bookworld</a> / <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/magpie-tales-sb-wright/1127671099" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a> / <a href="https://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Magpie-Tales-Sb-Wright/9780987623263" target="_blank">Fishpond</a><br />
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Signed Copies: <a href="https://sbwrightpoet.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/magpie-tales-signed-copies.html" target="_blank">On request</a></div>
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Sean Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485575602984697926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546238565383869526.post-55583239038882853122018-01-16T19:32:00.000+10:302018-01-16T19:32:00.905+10:30Acknowledging dissatisfaction (Waaahmbulancing)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I made a fool of myself (this is a semi-regular occurrence). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I applied to the <i>Melbourne Art Book Fair</i> under a regional writers application stream. Made it through the entire application form and sent it off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was only when I sat down to spread the information, through blogging. to my fellow poets, that I realised the extent of my mistake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's the <i>Arts Book Fair</i>, not the <i>Arts & Book Fair</i> i.e. it's a fair design to showcase Artbooks and publishing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I could blame the heat, the fact that I have already been working for half of the holiday period to get ready for next(this) year., but ...honestly I think it stemmed from the fact that Poetry gets pretty short shrift when it comes to the ever dwindling pool of Arts funding and I leapt at the chance to take advantage (and by take advantage I mean, motivated myself, despite acute anxiety and shyness) of support for regional writers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Le sigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Things could be worse, yes. I am very fortunate (exceedingly fortunate with regards to poetry publishing) but a podcast (<a href="https://www.commonpodcast.com/home/2017/12/6/episode-42-gabrielle-calvocoressi">Commonplace : Episode 42: Gabrielle Calvocoressi</a>) and a post (<a href="https://renpowell.com/2018/01/15/poets-who-get-lonely/">ren powell's Poet's Who Get Lonely </a>) have led me to think that maybe it's healthy to voice dissatisfaction even briefly, before I have to put on my big boy pants and just <b><i>do the work</i></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That and it was easier to express my dissatisfaction than to write a detailed post about my poetry process (which is coming).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Feel free to be dissatisfied with your lot in the comments, you'll get no judgement or "helpful" advice from me (unless you ask for it ).</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-esoB_jtbiuA/Wi4MPwPqBtI/AAAAAAAANz8/W6MhA6exzm0ETd0MouHfNdrymGYVQ_fWgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/sbw_mpt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-esoB_jtbiuA/Wi4MPwPqBtI/AAAAAAAANz8/W6MhA6exzm0ETd0MouHfNdrymGYVQ_fWgCPcBGAYYCw/s200/sbw_mpt.jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">In<b> <em>Magpie Tales</em></b> Australian poet SB Wright reveals a keen eye for capturing both people and places, his deft imagery transports the reader effortlessly from rural Australia and beyond. The pieces within explore a changing inner landscape too, where the contested terrain of small town identities and national issues are played out in clear, lyrical verse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em><b>Magpie Tales</b></em> is his first poetry collection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Available in print</i>: Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Magpie-Tales-Sb-Wright/dp/0987623265" target="_blank">Aus</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Magpie-Tales-Sb-Wright/dp/0987623265" target="_blank">US</a> / <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Magpie-Tales-Sb-Wright/9780987623263?ref=grid-view&qid=1513988082908&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Book Depository</a> / <a href="http://t.dgm-au.com/c/59916/71095/1880?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booktopia.com.au%2Fmagpie-tales-sb-wright%2Fprod9780987623263.html" target="_blank">Booktopia</a> / <a href="https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/books/magpie-tales-s-b-wright/p/9780987623263" target="_blank">Bookworld</a> / <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/magpie-tales-sb-wright/1127671099" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a> / <a href="https://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Magpie-Tales-Sb-Wright/9780987623263" target="_blank">Fishpond</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Signed Copies: <a href="https://sbwrightpoet.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/magpie-tales-signed-copies.html" target="_blank">On request</a></span></div>
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