Monthly Archives: March 2011

Ten Minutes on the Island

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre has announced the list of writers who will appear in its free feature reading for Home Truths, its two-day literary festival for Ten Days on the Island.  Concepts of home and being away from home.’islandness’, belonging, … Continue reading →

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My Friends This Landscape

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

I’m looking forward to the launch on Thursday 7th April of a new book by Tasmanian author Anne Collins. My Friends This Landscape is described by writer Terry Whitebeach as ‘A spacious walking meditation on place by an attentive and … Continue reading →

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Place and Experience Poetry Prize

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Fullers Bookshop is proud to partner with Island Magazine, The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre and the UTAS Schools of Philosophy and Geography & Environmental Studies to present a new national poetry award with a prize pool of $2000. (sourced from Island … Continue reading →

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Review – A Place on Earth

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

As I take my first steps into trying to understand the place of place writing in Australia I find there is a lot of discussion out there about what constitutes this relatively new genre in Australian literature. Although the tradition … Continue reading →

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Home Truths- Identity

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

What Lies Behind a Sense of Home and Identity? As part of Ten Days on The Island the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre is presenting a weekend literary festival where the idea of Place features strongly. A panel of distinguished writers discusses … Continue reading →

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Home Truths – Writing Small Islands

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Imagined Spaces of Possibility: Second on the literary program, Home Truths, is a session featuring Tasmanian and Prince Edward Island writers Godfrey Baldacchino, Laurie Brinklow and Pete Hay discussing ‘the cultural history of small islands and the sanctuary they can … Continue reading →

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Home Truths -Ideas of Islandness

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Phillip Adams will launch Island magazine and its online journal, Islet. Essays, short fiction, poems, conversations and images explore ideas of islandness from literal, philosophical and metaphorical perspectives. Sunday 3 April 12.30 – 1.00pm. For the full literary program and … Continue reading →

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A Place on Earth

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

‘Writing of Place:’ Mark Tredinnick, in his anthology A Place on Earth, says, “This literature, which is, at its best, part science and part poetry, and passes on lessons—from the more-than-merely-human world, and from those who live intimately with it—about … Continue reading →

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Annamaria Weldon speaks about nature writing

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Annamaria Weldon has won the inaugural Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize of $5,000 for her essay Threshold Country. Judges Mark Tredinnick and Sally Blakeny described it as ‘a marvellously orchestrated, complex meditation on belonging. It is at once assured and … Continue reading →

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In Advance of Our Broken Wings

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Tonight at the Hobart Bookshop in Salamanca Square, poet Anne Kellas will launch Stuart Solman’s new poetry collection, In Advance of Our Broken Wings. Philip Mead says of this collection: These poems are haunted by figures from a previous generation … Continue reading →

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