Albatross 20
The print copy of Albatross 20 arrived in the post this week. This edition of Albatross, edited and published by Richard Smyth, includes a fantastic line-up of poetry by Lyn Stefenhagens, LisaMarie Brodsky, Joan Colby, Roger Desy, Melissa Holm, William Keener, Linda King, Mitch LesCarbeau, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Paula Sanders McCarron, W. Dale Nelson, Sherry O'Keefe, Tom Sexton, Michael Shorb, Kim Triedman and Fredrick Zydeck.Albatross is looking for new poets and if you're an artist working in ink then Albatross welcomes submissions for cover art. Albatross is now a Facebook group and you can join by searching Facebook for Albatross Poetry Group.
I wonder if Facebook is the new Blogger. My blog is now more focussed than ever before on my writing. It's never been much of a chatty blog. Facebook reminds me of a personalised Usenet group (for verily, I was online BTW: Before the Web) only unlike Usenet the community is a community of people you've mainly had some contact with IRL. Facebook for me now is a little like a newsletter bulletin written by my friends. I come home, log on, and see what's been happening--this is very similar to how I was reading blogs anyway, only blogs have a more stable, journal quality. I'm blogging less but on Facebook everyday and I'm happy with this balance. The new writing seems to require even more time.
Obviously, I'm still blogging and reading blogs. This week I came across Denis Welch's blog for the first time.
The holidays begin soon and I want to try my hand at writing a short drama. I saw an abridged production of Vivienne's Plumb's The Cape at school and was very moved and impressed by the performance and the script. I have a copy of the play and it's essential holiday reading for me. One more day and then I get to sleep in!
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posted by harvey molloy @ 9:10 PM
2 Comments:
I saw The Cape performed at Circa a couple of years back - it was astonishing. I took a bunch of senior school poets to see it and they stood at the end to applaud. In the car on the way home they texted their friends to tell them to go and see it.
I had the same experience with students I took to see it. All these boys wakening to this understanding that they could be whoever they wanted to be on the stage. It was amazing.
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