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Poets Union Anthology 2010
Call for submission of poems

1 Members of the Poets Union are invited to submit a poem for publication in this year’s Anthology, which is due to be launched at the 2010 Australian Poetry Festival in September. For years now, a popular member activity has been to be published in the Anthology. Recent ones have been Prismatics (2008), Sun and Sleet (2006), Ask the Rain (2004), From the Annabranch (2002) and No River is Safe (2000).

2 To be in the new collection, send us a hard copy of your poem and payment of $25 per page of single-space Times New Roman 12-point typing in PC Microsoft Word 2003 (not 2007. If necessary, when using 2007 save the file into 2003) or Microsoft Word 2004 for Apple. Do not send it in pdf. You may submit more than one poem , but payment needs to be made at $25 per page. Make your cheque or money order out to Poets Union Inc.

3 In addition to hard copy, please send your poem if possible as an Attachment in an email with Subject: Poets Union 2010 Anthology. Please also provide a mail address and a phone number so we can check details where necessary. Send your email to info@poetsunion.com

4 Please supply a four-line biography, concentrating on your life in poetry, to be published in the Anthology.

5 Your poem may be a new one, never before published, or it may be prepublished.

6 If your poem has previously been published, you need to provide us with an acknowledgement, including reference details of where it was published, year, volume number, and page numbers.

7 Type your name on the poem sheet, the poem title, and the poem in single column format.

8 Please name electronic files with your surname and one key word of the poem title.

9 Please mark your envelope Anthology, Poets Union, PO Box 755, Potts Point NSW 1335 and make your cheque or money order out to Poets Union Inc. at $25 per page All poets featured in the Anthology will be entitled to a copy.

10 Closing date to submit your poem is 21 April 2010.

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The Greenhouse

A Poets Union e-anthology of Environmental Poems

The Poets Union invites members to contribute poems to The Greenhouse, a collection of poems about the environment to be mounted on the Poets Union website. This is one of the most important issues we have ever faced.

We invite you to place your thoughts on this issue on the Union website.

Each member may submit a maximum of one poem per deadline (ie three poems over the whole year) - poet and Poets Union committee member Martin Langford will edit the submissions.

Members should also submit a 25 word biographical note the first time they submit work to the anthology.

Submit 1 poem : as a simple Word (.doc) attachment

Email poems to: Martin Langford martinlangford@bigpond.com

Subject : submission 'THE GREENHOUSE' + YOUR NAME

The Greenhouse will be progressively mounted over three deadlines in 2010:

15 March 2010

15 July 2010 and

15 November 2010.

Cost: Free to members of the Poets Union

Interested in poetry? Join the Poets Union - please go to www.poetsunion.com and click on Membership to download the 2010 Membership form.

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SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN POETRY

The Poets Union biennial anthology is a showcase of writing by Poets Union members, and an overview of poetry by new, developing and established Australian poets.

Committed to supporting Australian poets at all stages of their development, the Poets Union publishes this anthology on a self-selecting cooperative basis. All interested members provide one or more poems and pay a small cover charge per page, promoting access to a diversity of voices.

The Poets Union anthologies include major poets and new poets, rural, regional and city poets. You can expect fine examples of a range of styles including lyrical, imagist and romantic poetry; prose poetry, rhyming verse and a variety of fixed form poems.

Some poems are previously published, gathering into one place, works from major Australian journals and taste-tests for the poets' recent or forthcoming collections.

An experienced editor compiles each anthology, often enhancing the work through a thematic approach as in Sun and Sleet (2006) and Ask the Rain (2004). The Poets Union biennial anthologies are excellent additions to a personal, public or school library.

Sun and Sleet, Ask the Rain and earlier anthologies are available from poetry-friendly bookshops, and from the Poets Union. RRP $20.

» Prismatics, 2008 Poets Union Anthology
» Sun and Sleet, 2006 Poets Union Anthology
» Ask the Rain, 2004 Poets Union Anthology