I Sing the Birth
A New Ceremony of Carols: “I Sing the Birth,” by Andrew Ford features my new poem “Carol of the Advent Moon”.
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Bright Crockery Days: The Poetry of Robert Gray Book Launch
On 28 September at the New South Wales State Library, the book of those essays Bright Crockery Days, is launched in a celebration of Robert Gray’s life in poetry.
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Sue Lockwood: Book Launch
We are delighted to announce that 5 Islands Press author Sue Lockwood will launch her superb collection, The Flowering Dark, at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library on the 31 August. Anne M Carson will launch the book, and 5 Islands Press Managing Editor, Mark Tredinnick, will be your MC. Registration for the event open around the end of July on the Athenaeum Library website.
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Michael Leibowitz: Book Launch
Michael Liebowitz will read a selection of poems from his new collection "Wardrobe of Secrets". The book will be launched by 5 Islands Press Managing Editor, the eminent poet and teacher Mark Tredinnick, who will also read some of his work. Rob Britton on guitar will enliven and enrich the event.
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POETRY WORKSHOP: BRIGHT CROCKERY DAYS (COUNCIL LED EVENT)
Join Mark for a poetry workshop during Poetry Month with internationally acclaimed Australian poet, Mark Tredinnick.
Clarion: Jenny Pollack Book Launch
Jenny Pollack’s poetry book “Clarion” launched by Mark Tredinnick and Judith Nangala Crispin.
“Clarion is an eco-poetic suite of words and images written and created by Australian artist and poet Jenny Pollak. It focuses on two extreme weather events since 2020 that decimated a small forest of casuarinas on the western foreshores of Pittwater, just north of Sydney.”
Banana Girl: Paris Rosemont Book Launch
The Sydney launch of Paris Rose debut poetry collection, Banana Girl. I’m doing the honours—a great joy since Paris is one of my most accomplished graduates, and a good friend. Her book is steeped in sass and sense, sensibility, sestinas, Sijo and sestets. She herself is a siren among poets.
A Line in the Sand: Red Room Poetry Showcase
A Line in the Sand brings together over 80 pieces from our leading poets and public figures in a retrospective that covers twenty years of contemporary Australian poetry. More here
Bravewords Live September
Hosted by Adrienne Ferreira and Rob Carlton, Bravewords Live is true stories told by great storytellers.
Joining Bravewords this month is Mark Tredinnick, Lisbeth Kennelly, Michael (Paddleboat Mick) Kilp and Donné Restom.
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Illuminated Roving Poetry Performance
Illuminated Roving Poetry Performance
Join Poets Extraordinaire Lizz Murphy, Mark Tredinnick and Richard Bell for live poetry at each of the three Indelible Stencil poetry sculptures in Picton Botanic Gardens.
Poetry & Philosophy in Health: ways of knowing, learning, being
A dynamic panel discussion interspersed with slam poetry, philosophical repartee, and how we bring it all back to high quality healthcare.
Old Beginnings. A Conversation in Poetry. Bronwyn Lea & Mark Tredinnick
To launch his new collection of poems, his fifth, A Beginner's Guide, Mark Tredinnick will converse with Bronwyn Lea about the urgent, ancient work poetry has to do—the molecular revolution it has to carry on, the repairs it has to keep running on reality—in these fast, late, and digital days.
Wollongong Poetry Month Showcase
Bringing lines from the escarpment to the sea, this year's showcase sees an electric line-up of local and coastal poetry and spoken word including Dakota Feirer, Sara Saleh, Lore White, Mark Tredinnick, Holly Isemonger, Butch Schwarzkopf, Tamryn Bennett, and Rozanna Lilley plus a guest musical set by Jodi Phillis (The Clouds). Hosted by Nicole Smede.
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Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival
I’m honoured to receive this prestigious prize, and I will honoured to be, with Jodie Williams, the guest of the Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival this June, our first trip outside the country since the pandemic.
The Blue Square Poetry & Music Evening 2023
An Evening of Poetry, Song & Art at the Bowral Art Gallery, as part of the Blue Square Exhibition.
Proceeds go to CANassist
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Sierra Poetry Festival
Join Mark with poet Judith Nangala Crispin and Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello as they discuss Agency, Sovereignty and Self-determination in Poetry, power dynamics between poetry and readership, and themes of possession, ownership and belonging. Find out more here:
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Newcastle Writers Festival
WHAT POEMS TEACH US
Dimitra Harvey, Peter Ramm, and Mark Tredinnick discuss how and what poems teach, and the value of delight in catastrophic times, hosted by Paul Hetherington.
Ramsay Writers Event
Mark Tredinnick and Geoff Page in conversation with Luke Whittington, focusing on poetry as a genre.
Australian Arab Poets and Writers
I'm looking forward to saying some words about poetry as the World Language and to participating in the conversation, the deeper speaking, poetry starts and sustains—this case among speakers of two of the more profoundly poetical languages of the world. Join us if you can at the Coronation Hall in Arncliffe.
Panjabi Sahit Festival
A celebration of Panjabi Poetry and Literature, part of the Panjabi Sahit Festival, in the Max Webber Library Hall at Blacktown on Friday night 17 March.
Trish Takahashi Book Launch
Mark is launching Trish Takahashi’s memoir The Japanese Wife.
This is the story of Trish's attempt to overcome cultural divides and inter-cultural miscommunication, to build a marriage with a man from a completely different world.
2023 Flying Islands Books Launch
Mark Tredinnick launches Kevin Smith’s Another Day by Flying Islands Books.
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“These are grown-up poems, and it is his wide reading and lyric ear and dedication to the craft that have in large part grown Kevin up so well he was ready to make these poems. These poems are tender, and they are uncompromising. Literature forgives us for being human, I have often thought, and these poems bear that out.”
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Ceremony of Carols
Australian Chamber Choir
Australian and Ukranian Carol of the Birds: Carol of the Two Crows
Text by Mark Tredinnick, music by Alan Holley (born 1954) first performance
Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921) Shchedryk (Ukrainian Bell Carol)
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A Conversation on Art & Country
Judith Nangala Crispin & Mark Tredinnick at the Canberra launch of Mark’s latest poetry collection A Beginner’s Guide.
Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World
Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World is a three-day conference on poetry and poetics to be held over 5th to 7th December 2022, at the University of Canberra. The conference investigates poetry's relationship to the extraordinary.
Jennifer Harrison & Mark Tredinnick present A Panel for “Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry & the World”, joined by Jacob Goetz.
The Poetry Studio
A weekly online poetry workshop led by Mark Tredinnick. Wednesday mornings (AEDT) 9am to noon, from 30 November. Pay as you go. Drop in when you can or make a weekly habit of it at the Poetry Studio.
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Berry Writers Festival
Moderated by: Mark Tredinnick
Saturday 22nd October, 10.30am - 11.30am
‘Poets are the Unacknowledged Legislators of the World.’
Presented by Mark Tredinnick, Julie Janson, Omar Sakr
Sunday 23rd October, 10.30am - 11.30am
Book Launch: Through The Realm of Impermanence
Presented by the Australia International Elite Cultural & Arts Centre Inc., Global Chinese Art & Poetry Association, Orchid Publishing House, and Harmony & Poetry Sydney Festival 2022
Poetica Presents the Beach that Speaks
Bondi Pavilion is reopening and Poetica has been invited to put on a night of words and song featuring Mark Tredinnick.
Supported by Waverley Council
Geoff's Poetry at Smiths: Tredinnick and Cliff
I'm reading at Smith's in Canberra on 5 September with Paul Cliff. Thanks to Martin and Geoff for this last minute opportunity.