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Welcome to Australian poetry - August 2005
13 april 2006
There is so much still to explore in Australian poetry, many worlds within and satelliting the antipodes, calling themselves Australian or drawing reference from its history and culture. Please take this as a plea, if you are able to help support this site financially, please contact me or the central editors. Help us keep Poetry International Australia from slipping away to the antipodes.
In 2004, I had the good fortune to start as editor of Poetry International Australia. At the time, the site consisted of one poet’s (Kate Lilley) work. One year, twenty-two poets and some 146 poems and sequences later, Poetry International Australia is facing the abyss . . . well the funding abyss. Sad to say this issue may represent the last addition to the site for the time being. While funding has been gratefully secured from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts to pay contributors, at present we do not have the resources to pay for the hosting fees at Poetry International Web. Sad days, as it is with this fifth issue of Poetry International Australia that it feels like the groundwork has been done and the site is set to really get going!
In this issue I have chosen to update some of the existing poets’ pages, so as to leave a healthier selection of each poet. In this issue you will find new poems from J.S.Harry, Chris Edwards, Noel Rowe, MTC Cronin and Vivian Smith. Peter Henri Lepus returns once more, this time nibbling on Derrida and offering a discourse on the written representation of I; there are further examples of the great good humour and sci-fi space odyssey of Chris Edwards’ work; we get a burst of love’s strangeness from MTC Cronin; Noel Rowe brings his sure touch to the elegy; and Vivian Smith brings to us precision not simply of vision but translation in a combination of his own deftly handled lyrical works and equally deftly worked translations of Paul Celan. There is so much still to explore in Australian poetry, many worlds within and satelliting the antipodes, calling themselves Australian or drawing reference from its history and culture. Please take this as a plea, if you are able to help support this site financially, please contact me or the central editors. Help us keep Poetry International Australia from slipping away to the antipodes.
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