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James Charlton's new poetry collection So Much Light, will be launched by Catherine Schulz at Fullers Bookshop, 140 Collins St, Hobart - 2pm, Sunday 21 October.
Sunday 4th November - Republic Bar & Café, cnr Elizabeth & Burnett Sts, North Hobart, 3 - 5pm: Pardalote Press celebrates seven years of publishing poetry with readings by James Charlton, Gina Mercer, Ian Johnston, Karen Knight, Peter Macrow and the haiku poets from Watersmeet.
Pardalote Press poets continue to be in demand at literary readings and events around the country.
The September poetry readings at the Republic Bar & Café in North Hobart (Sunday 2nd September, 3 - 5pm) celebrate National Poetry Week with readings by Karen Knight, Lyn Reeves and future Pardalote poet, Stuart Solman, along with Louise Oxley and Esther Ottaway.
At this year's Queensland Poetry Festival three of Pardalote's poets, Karen Knight, Graham Nunn and Lyn Reeves will be among the featured readers.
The Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word is Australia's finest annual poetry festival and is recognised world wide as a major literary event. Graham is also a featured guest at The Brisbane Writers' Festival, September 12 -16.
The following month Lyn will be a guest at The Tasmanian Poetry Festival in Launceston (October 5 - 7). Eric Beach, Pardalote Press's first poet, is also an invited guest. Eric will then travel to Hobart for a series of readings and workshops.
Gina Mercer will be a featured writer at the 2007 Watermark Literary Muster: Tues Oct 2 - Sat Oct 6 - Writers & readers exploring the nature & place of migration.
After reading and celebrating the release of her new poetry collection, Handfeeding the Crocodile, Gina will travel to the beautiful central coast of NSW where she will be a guest at a Literary Lunch hosted by author of Spinifex, Beverley George.
Jodie Hawthorne was a guest reader at Eltham Bookshop's New Voices Festival in July. Jodie introduced each session on the program with a reading from Watching Pilgrims Watching Me.
Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship
Karen Knight is the 2006 winner of the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship, awarded annually to a highly original poet by the Varuna Writer's Centre and the Eleanor Dark Foundation. As part of her prize Karen will travel to Scotland in April to take up a three-week residency: two weeks in Edinburgh and then a week in the Hebrides with the UNESCO City of Literary Exchange Program.
Read about Karen's highly original collection, Under the One Granite Roof: poems for Walt Whitman here.
Pardalote Press also congratulates Karen on receiving a new work grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for her next collection of poems.
Haiku Pacific Rim Conference 2007
Beverley George, author of Spinifex: haiku and President of HaikuOz, will be speaking at the Haiku Pacific Rim Conference 2007 in Matsuyama, Japan in March. Her collection of haiku is available from Pardalote Press.
Interview with Jodie Hawthorne
Read an interview with Jodie Hawthorne, author of Watching Pilgrims Watching Me.
Spinifex: haiku released
Pardalote Press is pleased to announce the release of Spinifex: haiku by the President of the Australian Haiku Society, Beverley George. Containing many of her prize-winning haiku and sequences, this collection is a 'benchmark in Australian haiku' (John Bird).
Forthcoming - March 2007
Handfeeding the Crocodile - a new collection of poetry by the editor of Island, is due for release in March 2007.
Haiku book launch
On Sunday 20th August Pardalote Press released the fifth in its series of haiku books. Jodie Hawthorne spoke about her life in the remote Deqen Tibetan Region and the experiences that inspired the haiku moments in her book, Watching Pilgrims Watching Me: haiku from Shangri-la at Fullers AfterWord Café in Hobart. Photographs of the region, and the original illustrations by Anna Xue Yang, were on display. The collection is a distillation of Jodie's experiences in Tibet, and like Pardalote Press's other haiku titles, makes a beautiful gift for poetry-lovers.
Tasmanian Living Writers' Week
During Tasmanian Living Writers' Week four members of Watersmeet Haiku Group were invited to compose haiku and write them on a bookshop window in Hobart.
Read about this event at HaikuOz.
PayPal for easier on-line purchasing
Pardalote Press now has PayPal functionality for easier on-line purchasing. But you can still print and post an order form if you prefer.
Bookshops who would like to find out about our terms for booksellers, please contact info@pardalote.com.au.