AUSTRALIAN POETRY CENTRE JOHN TRANTER JORDIE ALBISTON presents... John Tranter was born in 1943, and Jordie Albiston lives in Melbourne, where spent his youth on a farm on the she was born in 1961. She is the author of A Poetry Salon: Readings and Conversation South-east coast of Australia. He five poetry collections. Australian composer attended country schools, and took a Andrée Greenwell has adapted two of her B.A. degree in 1971. He has worked books (Botany Bay Document – retitled SUNDAY 22 MARCH mainly in publishing, teaching and Dreaming Transportation – and The Hanging radio production, and has travelled of Jean Lee) for music-theatre: both enjoyed recent seasons 417 Inkerman Street, St Kilda East widely, making twenty reading tours at the Sydney Opera House. Nervous Arcs won the Mary of the United States, Britain and Gilmore Award for a first book of Australian poetry in 1995, PROGRAM Europe. He now lives in Sydney where and was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Prize. Her he is a company director. John has published more than fourth collection, The Fall, was shortlisted for Premier’s 4:00pm–5:30pm twenty collections of verse. Prizes in Victoria, NSW and Queensland. Jordie’s most recent His collection of new and selected poems, Urban Myths: 210 collection Vertigo: A Cantata was released in 2007. She has The APC is excited to present readings Poems: New and Selected (University of Queensland Press, two adult children, and holds a PhD in literature. by John Tranter and Jordie Albiston and Salt Publishing, Cambridge UK) won the 2006 Victorian state award for poetry, the 2007 New South Wales state Members $7, Non-members $10 award for poetry, the 2008 South Australian state award for wine and cheese will be served poetry, and the 2008 South Australian Premieris Prize for the best book overall in 2006 and 2007. In late 2008 Salt Publications will publish a volume of essays on the poetry of Followed by: John Tranter by a dozen critics in Britain, Australia and the Overland poetry editor, Keri Glastonbury, United States, edited by Rod Mengham, of Jesus College, presents the winning poems from the 5:30pm–6:30pm Cambridge. Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for Overland Launch John has received several fellowships and grants from the New and Emerging Poets, sponsored by Literature Board of the Australia Council, and a visiting the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. With residency at Cambridge University in 2001 and 2002. His a major prize of $3000, and two minor For more information (or to book) call (03) 9527 4063 books include The Floor of Heaven, a book-length sequence prizes of $500, the award, now in its second year, has Email [email protected] or check out: of four verse narratives (HarperCollins 1992 and Arc, become one of Australia’s most prestigious events for new www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au UK, 2001), Late Night Radio (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1998), poets. Join Keri as she discusses the process of selection Different Hands, a collection of seven experimental prose and hosts some of the successful entrants reading from their pieces (Folio/ Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998), Heart work. The new edition of Overland, containing the winning Print (Salt Publishing, UK, 2000), Studio Moon and Trio poems, will be available on the night. (both Salt Publications, UK, 2003). In 1992 he edited (with Philip Mead) the Penguin Book of Keri Glastonbury is the poetry editor of Modern Australian Poetry, a 470-page anthology which has Overland magazine and lecturers in Creative become the standard text in its field, published in Britain Writing at the University of Newcastle. She is and the USA as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian an editor for Local Consumption Publications, Poetry. He is the editor of the free Internet magazine and has published two books of poetry, Jacket, at jacketmagazine.com, founded in October 1997. Hygienic Lily (Five Islands Press, 1999) and It now adds up to around six thousand printed pages, and Super-Regional (Vagabond, 2001). In 2006– has received half a million visits. The US Publishers’ Weekly 2007 she directed Critical Animals: National recently called it “the first (and best) large-scale Internet Creative Research Symposium during Newcastle’s This Is poetry journal.” Not Art Festival. Glenfern is a National Trust (Victoria) Property.