Images Courtesy for Queensland Poetry Festival, It’s been 10 months, since a live poetry event for the Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF). So, it was perhaps this that led to such anticipation and a within minutes booked out venue for the first Volta (an Italian term for the ‘turn’ in thought or argument in a sonnet,Continue reading “Volta – a Turn for Poetry”
What can Citizen teach me about Poetry?
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Been digging deep for the next poetry collection. Filling a purple notebook with ideas, often written in prose. Sometimes lines just spin out like poetry. Then I type them up. During type up sometimes words and lineation change. Sometimes metaphors are born. Sometimes phrases that surprise HAPPEN! Then I revisit…
Bring on 2021
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
https://junepaisaperkins.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/424accc18ada381b17e3f68d419521aef4f1ba98e5aee327db4b5164d7f9ef45-rimg-w526-h296-gmir.jpg Volta Poetry: Kylie Thompson, June Perkins & Samuel Watson VOLTA is co-presented monthly by Queensland Poetry Festival and Brisbane Square Library. It replaces Couplet Poetry, which has been well-loved for more than a decade, to bring you ⚡electric poetry, spoken word, and the unexpected.⚡ Fri Feb 5 2021 at…
Meeting Readers!
Originally posted on Magic Fish Dreaming:
https://junepaisaperkins.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/125996368_2875709389378389_5863851474392948424_n.jpg It was so joyful to meet readers of books I have put heart and soul into. Even though I did the best I could, it didn’t quite feel real launching Illuminations online. https://junepaisaperkins.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/126336225_3562722167130588_5909400282707258154_n.jpg It was a tough week in the lead up to the Gold Coast visit, as…
Working on Project X
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
https://junepaisaperkins.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/withmentortext1.jpg Arrival of a mentor text My next poetry work doesn’t have a title. It;s a work in progress, drawing on my life, sense of being in the world and Australia as a woman of colour, a lover of actions beyond words, and just to make sense of this thing…
