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2010 AUSTRALIAN POETRY FESTIVAL attendees' FEEDBACK SHEET for 'Inventing the Tradition'
Australian Poetry Festival - Poets Union Poetry Prize winners and judges comments + FESTIVAL FEEDBACK sheet
4 poetry events at The Sydney Fringe festival - 12th to 22nd September, 2010
Poetry at The Gods – guest poets Alan Wearne and Kate Llewellyn
Word in Hand @ The Friend in Hand - guests Benito Di Fonzo and John “Mad-Axe” Maddox
E-newsletter for Poets Union members (attached below)
Winners of the Poets Union 2010 Poetry Prize and The Scanlon Prize for a book of Indigenous Poetry
2010 Judith Wright Memorial Lecture
HAIKU & HAIBUN Japanese Poetry Competition
PU reading at the Brett Whiteley Studio - Sun.25 July guest poets Anna Kerdijk Nicholson and Martin Langford
In Blacktown – 'Poetry Aloud for Everyone: Celebrating Diversity in Our City!'
WordinHand@TheFriendinHand - STATE OF ORIGIN with Bravo Child (NSW) and Suzanne Jones (QLD)
Open your Poets Union e-news for poets from 7th July (attached below)
The Greenhouse: e-anthology of Environmental Poems. Members email 1 poem by 15 July
RhiZomiC poetry party - featuring guest poet Peter Boyle 30th June
In Sydney Wed. 21st July - The Auburn Poets & Writers Group
Anna Kerdijk Nicholson’s ‘POSSESSION': Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771
Poets Union e-newsletter for poets from 21st April - posted in full now on PU blog www.poetsunioninc.blogspot.com
Les Murray and Judith Beveridge reading was held at Fisher Library at Sydney University
Australian poet Judith Beveridge reading her poem 'How to Love Bats' - part of the A Way With Words series.
OUT OF THE BOX: Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Poets - the Sydney launch was held on Friday 26th February.
Submissions invited for an annotated discography on jazz and literature - from Poets Union member Peter J.F.Newton
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Interested in poetry? Join the Poets Union - 2010 Membership and Renewal Forms below
Newcastle Poetry at the Pub - meets at 7.00 pm on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Mondays of the month. at the Northern Star Hotel
Thank you to the Hon. Virginia Judge MP and THE WEEK for the Poetry Soiree with Judith Beveridge and David Malouf
Queensland launch of Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986-2008 in Brisbane on Friday 13th November

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2010 AUSTRALIAN POETRY FESTIVAL attendees' FEEDBACK SHEET for 'Inventing the Tradition'

7 Sep 2010 - 16:45
In Kings Cross – Poet’s Nite at The Club Swans

7 Sep 2010 - 18:30
Word in Hand @ The Friend in Hand - guests Benito Di Fonzo and John “Mad-Axe” Maddox

7 Sep 2010 - 19:30
PUFF (Poetry Underground Film Festival) - 12 & 13th September at The Sydney Fringe festival

12 Sep 2010 - 08:00
4 poetry events at The Sydney Fringe festival - 12th to 22nd September, 2010

12 Sep 2010 - 18:30

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Sydney Writers Festival

» Voices from Underground - Harbour City Poets
» DiVerse at the SH Ervin: A Poetic Response
» A Season of Love at the Bar
» The Sydney Poetry Readings
» The Sydney Readings: New Voices
» Poetica: Five Arrivals

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Membership of the Poets Union is open to all whether published or not. Membership is calculated on the calendar year and fees are due on 1st February.

By becoming a member of the Poets Union you are supporting a democratic organisation, which provides opportunities for poets and promotes and advocates for contemporary poetry.

BENEFITS INCLUDE

Five Bells - The Poets Union national poetry magazine
Poets Union weekly e-newsletter
Publishing opportunities in Five Bells
Publishing opportunities in the Poets Union biennial anthology
Free publicity for member publications and events
Australian Poetry Festival - discounted entry into the biennial Australian Poetry Festival and other Poets Union functions
Poets Union Poetry Prize

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Judith Wright lectures

The Greenhouse