Fellowships

An Opuscule in Loving

By Claire Potter, 2006 Australian Young Poets Fellow.

Before us, sunset
Ants skate under the blue mangroves,
unstitching small lips of warm evening
rainbow water -

Love's hands up in throes:
ants write in moving water what between us
cannot be disclosed

Fellowships

Pregnant Belly as a Bridal Dress

By Esther Ottaway, 2006 Australian Young Poets Fellow.

Her belly is veiled
in lacework, embroidered
with silver, crimson, weft
and warp, destiny. Swathe
of scars, interpolations, text
of an opal genome, a palimpsest
of truth-telling, cathedral satin,
chantilly, guipure, pearlescent
tracery, the pinprick pains
of needlepoint, body's fabric
giving way to prophecy, the separating
strands of corium and scarfskin
interlacing, drawing her
to a single spellbound morning
of unveiling.

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Previous Australian Young Poets Fellows

2005 Luis GonzÃ¡lez Serrano and Lucy Holt (Newcastle NSW)

2004 Simon West (Melbourne)

Chapbooks by previous Fellows are available from the Poets Union at $10 each:

Blood Universe by Esther Ottaway
In Front of a Comma by Claire Potter
Cities with Moveable Parts by Luis GonzÃ¡lez Serrano
Stories of Bird by Lucy Holt
of Fallen Myth by Nick Powell
Incidental Complications by Ivy Ireland

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2006 Australian Young Poets Fellows

Esther Ottaway and Claire Potter

The 2006 Australian Young Poets Fellows chapbooks were launched on September 10 by Judith Beveridge at the 5th Australian Poetry Festival. Blood Universe by Esther Ottaway (Tasmania) and In Front of a Comma by Claire Potter (Western Australia), are now available from the Poets Union. The Poets Union is proud to present the following samples of their work.

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Australian Young Poets Fellowship

The Fellowships provide funds for experienced poets to mentor the Fellows, to publish chapbooks, grant access to the Poetry Australian Foundation's New Poets Workshops, and in Australian Poetry Festival years, the opportunity to present work at the Festival.

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