American Ghazal - by Sheila Murphy

One Hundred Sixty-Second


Lilies, like yourself, live where they are known,
and tangibly, the elements upon them.

Racks of how-to books explain how to locate
one to love, then how to love and to possess.

Wind tonight means temperatures will not reach ninety-one.
People have left town, and dry heat offers quiet.

A one-year old is scheduled to arrive at our front door.
She climbs into cupboards and filing cabinets.

When my aunt died, among her possessions were multiple
wallets, purses, pairs of gloves, and watches she had won.


Sheila E. Murphy
Friend and US poet - Hyper-productive and experimental.


Much more about her and her work can be found at  
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Murphy

ABC Radio National's BIG IDEA - TONIGHT 8.05pm (7pm WA)

MONDAY 28 MAY 2012

Broadcast:

Monday 28 May 2012 8:05PM (7.05pm WA)

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  The Addicted Brain

  Marc Lewis took every drug imaginable over a 15 year period. He knows drugs can make you feel good, and he experienced the desperate lows of addiction. He's been drug free for 30 years and is now a neuroscientist. So what do the drugs he took actually do to your brain?  Why do they make you feel the way they do? And -crucially – how is the brain responsible for addiction? He speaks to Paul Barclay

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Poetry Foundation NEWSLETTER

Finding Poetry in Illness

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Contemporary Best Sellers for the week of My 13, 2012

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2Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
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4New Collected Poems
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Poem-A-Day: 'SILENCES' by John Montague

for Elizabeth

1
Poetry is a weapon, and should be used,
though not in the crudity of violence.
It is a prayer before an unknown altar,
a spell to bless the silence.

2
There is a music beyond all this,
beyond all forms of grievance,
where anger lays its muzzle down
into the lap of silence.

3
Or some butterfly script,
fathomed only by the other,
as supple fingers draw
a silent message from the tangible.

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Today's poem is fromSpeech Lessons, published by Wake Forest University Press. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved, at http://www.poets.org

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Poetry In Film Festival - Enter Now!

The Poetry in Film Festival (PIFF) is on the hunt for the feature poem to be interpreted into short films. This year’s theme is ‘The Future Imagined’ Submit your poem by June 30th 2012.

MISSION

Poetry in Film Festival (PIFF) is the initiative that aims to bring the Australian arts community together with a festival combining film and poetry.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
PIFF 2012, in its third year, is an exciting and innovative short film festival based in Melbourne, Australia. Although its home is Australia, the festival is accepting entries from around the world.

Entrants in the festival are given a piece of modern poetry. From there they are free to interpret the poem in the form of a 4-7 min short film however they see fit.

The films will be judged by a team of industry professionals and awards will be given for the following criteria:

- Best Direction
- Best Cinematography
- Best Film (Best interpretation of the poem)
- Audience choice (judged on the PIFF Showcase and Awards Night)
- Best Performance

The best films will be screened at the PIFF Awards Night at the Palace Cinema Como, November 18th, 2012, where the awards ceremony will take place. An after party will follow, where filmmakers have a chance to network with fellow filmmakers, PIFF organisers and industry professionals alike.

The best films will also be shown as a part of the festival circuit in various other locations, after the awards ceremony, throughout Victoria and Australia.

See it all HERE

'Undercover' at Bookshops now

Now available at Planet Books, Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley, phone 9328 7464

and

Crow Books, 900 Albany Highway, East Victoria Park 6101, phone 9472 9737

More as they are added.

Or mail order from the publisher Walleah Press at  http://walleahpress.com.au/  

Oh, how beautiful the books of yore!

See more HERE

Are there any fine / arts book-crafts people in Western Australia? 

We at CODEX Australia are looking to make a directory of such services to promote and link such crafts people across Australia and to USA and Mexican practitioners. .Please contact me at burkeandre(at)gmail(dot) com if you have any information.

CODEX International Book Fair and Symposium