The poetry reading at the Prince Albert Hotel in Gawler South Australia is on the last Sunday of the month at 2.00pm. Poets put a gold coin in the tin and write their name in the book.
Then they listen to the fine poetry until it's their turn to read a few poems. It's all great fun and the audience is very friendly and supportive. I'm involved in running this event and I'm having a great time with it.
I would love to see you at the Prince Albert Hotel one Sunday! The best poems left will be considered for publication in a poetry reader which will be launched at the November event. If you don't have time this year, I recommend you make time next year you come along to the friendliest poetry readings!
Looking forward to hearing you read!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Poetry Competition is Up and Going
Adelaide Plains Poets inc Poetry Competition, entries close 7 January 2011, winners announced late February/early March.
Well, I've been giving out entry forms, in fact taking them with me almost every time I go out. People are giving me good feedback about how much they like the theme for the competition - The Great Race - and I'm hoping to get lots more entries from school students this time.
Entry for Primary and Secondary School students is free, $5.00 for adults. If you are interested in entering the competition or know someone who may be interested, you can find the entry form and guidelines on this site, or you can send me and email to jeebers@bigpond.com asking me to send them to you.
Entries must be accompanied by an entry form, and if from adults, the payment. You can send the payment via Paypal near the entry forms and guidelines on this website.
Entry is for Australian residents only.
Well, I've been giving out entry forms, in fact taking them with me almost every time I go out. People are giving me good feedback about how much they like the theme for the competition - The Great Race - and I'm hoping to get lots more entries from school students this time.
Entry for Primary and Secondary School students is free, $5.00 for adults. If you are interested in entering the competition or know someone who may be interested, you can find the entry form and guidelines on this site, or you can send me and email to jeebers@bigpond.com asking me to send them to you.
Entries must be accompanied by an entry form, and if from adults, the payment. You can send the payment via Paypal near the entry forms and guidelines on this website.
Entry is for Australian residents only.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Poetry Rules this Weekend
There are a lot of poetry events happening in my area this weekend. I will be focused on one event, but will be trying to have at least some involvement in the others.
There will be lots of writing things, including poetry, at the Salisbury Writing Festival. I may be able to get there Friday night, but the cold weather might mean I don't get there.
On Saturday I am committed to volunteer work at the Gawler Show, so I can't get to Salisbury that day at all. I heartily recommend people check it out if they're free.
On Sunday there will be the first ever Poetry Slam at the Gawler Show. The people running it are friends, they are committed to it, and it will be exciting and fantastic. I will try to be there for at least some of the morning.
After that, is the event I am most personally connected with. The Poetry @ the Pub is a monthly event I am going to attend, (I am on the committee who run it) and I hope lots of others will be able to get involved. It starts at the Prince Albert Hotel in Gawler at 2.00pm Sunday. The fire will be going and the atmosphere will be welcoming and fun.
I may be able to get to Salisbury afterwards, but it will be difficult, so maybe not. It will be a big weekend for me, and I will have a great time!
There will be lots of writing things, including poetry, at the Salisbury Writing Festival. I may be able to get there Friday night, but the cold weather might mean I don't get there.
On Saturday I am committed to volunteer work at the Gawler Show, so I can't get to Salisbury that day at all. I heartily recommend people check it out if they're free.
On Sunday there will be the first ever Poetry Slam at the Gawler Show. The people running it are friends, they are committed to it, and it will be exciting and fantastic. I will try to be there for at least some of the morning.
After that, is the event I am most personally connected with. The Poetry @ the Pub is a monthly event I am going to attend, (I am on the committee who run it) and I hope lots of others will be able to get involved. It starts at the Prince Albert Hotel in Gawler at 2.00pm Sunday. The fire will be going and the atmosphere will be welcoming and fun.
I may be able to get to Salisbury afterwards, but it will be difficult, so maybe not. It will be a big weekend for me, and I will have a great time!
Saturday, July 17, 2010
The Great Race
There are many races in life. From the magic race of sperm to be the first to get to the egg, to the grinding rat race we struggle through on a daily basis. Then there are the exciting races, horses, greyhounds, athletes running, motor sport - there are winners and losers, and many great stories to be told of the great races.
The Adelaide Plains Poets Inc have another great poetry competition for 2010/2011 lining up on the starting grid with the exciting theme of 'THE GREAT RACE'. Entries are open now, closing on 7 January 2011, and the entry form and guidelines are on this page, so scroll down, cut and paste the necessary parts and get thinking about which of life's Great Races you wish to write your poem about.
As the competition secretary, I am excited about what exciting stories in poetic form people will write and send to me to be involved in APPI's sixth annual poetry competition.
read all about it below:-
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ADELAIDE PLAINS POETS Inc
ADELAIDE PLAINS CUP FESTIVAL
POETRY COMPETITION 2011
‘The Great Race’
1st, 2nd & 3rd cash prizes, plus Highly Commended & Commended certificates as appropriate. Total prize pool over $500
ENTRY GUIDELINES
· Work entered in this competition must be original, in English, unpublished and not have won a prize in any other competition. Authors retain copyright, but the organisers reserve the right to arrange for possible reading of Prize winners’ work during the Adelaide Plains Cup Festival 2011, and selected entries may be published in an anthology
· Theme ‘The Great Race’
· Poems entered must in some way refer to the theme,
· Open Class - poets 18 years & older
· Junior classes –
o Primary School student
o Secondary School student
· To maintain anonymity, entrant’s name should appear on entry form only, not on poems. Entry forms are to include entrant’s name, address, phone number, titles of poems submitted.
· Entries should be typed, on one side of paper only, one poem to a page
· Poems to be no longer than 60 lines
· Entry fees: Open class $5.00 per poem entered
Junior classes - no entry fee
· Cheques to be made payable to Adelaide Plains Poets Inc
· Entries to: Competition Secretary, 30 Germantown Rd REDBANKS SA 5502
· Entries to be received by close of business 7 January 2011 – entries received after this date may not be considered for the competition.
· Authors should retain a copy of their work, entries will not be returned without provision of a SSAE
· Selected entries may be published in an anthology
For further details contact:
Ms C Cordon (08) 85272412; 0418 806 490; jeebers@bigpond.com
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ADELAIDE PLAINS POETS INC
ADELAIDE PLAINS CUP FESTIVAL
POETRY COMPETITION 2011
‘The Great Race’
ENTRY FORM
Name…………………..……………………Phone…………………
Address……………………………………………..…………………
.…………………………………………………………………………
Email………………………………..
Title of poem/s - ……………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………..
(use back of page for additional entries)
Entrants’ names or other details must not appear on poems
Declaration by author: I agree to comply with the Entry Guidelines and declare that the written work submitted in my name is my own original work and has not been copied in part, or in full, from any other source.
Author’s signature…………………………………..date…………………...
Date of birth (if entering junior section) ………………………….……….…..
Name of school (if entering junior section) …………………………………….
$5.00 per poem (OPEN CLASS ONLY – NO FEE FOR JUNIOR ENTRIES)
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES 7 January 2011
Cheques/money orders to be made payable to Adelaide Plains Poets Inc, and sent with entries to Competition Secretary, 30 Germantown Rd REDBANKS SA 5502
Authors should retain a copy of their work, entries will not be returned without provision of a stamped self-addressed envelope, and a written request.
If you wish, you can pay online using the method below:-
Cost for Paypal entries is $5.00 plus an extra 50 cents for each poem entered (for Paypal payments only).
The Adelaide Plains Poets Inc have another great poetry competition for 2010/2011 lining up on the starting grid with the exciting theme of 'THE GREAT RACE'. Entries are open now, closing on 7 January 2011, and the entry form and guidelines are on this page, so scroll down, cut and paste the necessary parts and get thinking about which of life's Great Races you wish to write your poem about.
As the competition secretary, I am excited about what exciting stories in poetic form people will write and send to me to be involved in APPI's sixth annual poetry competition.
read all about it below:-
--------------------------------------------------------------------
ADELAIDE PLAINS POETS Inc
ADELAIDE PLAINS CUP FESTIVAL
POETRY COMPETITION 2011
‘The Great Race’
1st, 2nd & 3rd cash prizes, plus Highly Commended & Commended certificates as appropriate. Total prize pool over $500
ENTRY GUIDELINES
· Work entered in this competition must be original, in English, unpublished and not have won a prize in any other competition. Authors retain copyright, but the organisers reserve the right to arrange for possible reading of Prize winners’ work during the Adelaide Plains Cup Festival 2011, and selected entries may be published in an anthology
· Theme ‘The Great Race’
· Poems entered must in some way refer to the theme,
· Open Class - poets 18 years & older
· Junior classes –
o Primary School student
o Secondary School student
· To maintain anonymity, entrant’s name should appear on entry form only, not on poems. Entry forms are to include entrant’s name, address, phone number, titles of poems submitted.
· Entries should be typed, on one side of paper only, one poem to a page
· Poems to be no longer than 60 lines
· Entry fees: Open class $5.00 per poem entered
Junior classes - no entry fee
· Cheques to be made payable to Adelaide Plains Poets Inc
· Entries to: Competition Secretary, 30 Germantown Rd REDBANKS SA 5502
· Entries to be received by close of business 7 January 2011 – entries received after this date may not be considered for the competition.
· Authors should retain a copy of their work, entries will not be returned without provision of a SSAE
· Selected entries may be published in an anthology
For further details contact:
Ms C Cordon (08) 85272412; 0418 806 490; jeebers@bigpond.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ADELAIDE PLAINS POETS INC
ADELAIDE PLAINS CUP FESTIVAL
POETRY COMPETITION 2011
‘The Great Race’
ENTRY FORM
Name…………………..……………………Phone…………………
Address……………………………………………..…………………
.…………………………………………………………………………
Email………………………………..
Title of poem/s - ……………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………..
(use back of page for additional entries)
Entrants’ names or other details must not appear on poems
Declaration by author: I agree to comply with the Entry Guidelines and declare that the written work submitted in my name is my own original work and has not been copied in part, or in full, from any other source.
Author’s signature…………………………………..date…………………...
Date of birth (if entering junior section) ………………………….……….…..
Name of school (if entering junior section) …………………………………….
$5.00 per poem (OPEN CLASS ONLY – NO FEE FOR JUNIOR ENTRIES)
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES 7 January 2011
Cheques/money orders to be made payable to Adelaide Plains Poets Inc, and sent with entries to Competition Secretary, 30 Germantown Rd REDBANKS SA 5502
Authors should retain a copy of their work, entries will not be returned without provision of a stamped self-addressed envelope, and a written request.
If you wish, you can pay online using the method below:-
Cost for Paypal entries is $5.00 plus an extra 50 cents for each poem entered (for Paypal payments only).
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Villanelle - How to Write One
I can't say I'm an expert on this one, but I have written one which I think was well done. I've searched the internet and found a site that shows and explains how to manage this frustrating poetic form.
This site gives a studied look at one villanelle poem - read it and you will understand the form. I recommend having a rhyming dictionary close at hand if you want to give the villanelle a try.
Frustrating yes, but when you get it right, you can be justly proud of yourself. It isn't easy to get the right lines to use in this form. A villanelle repeats two lines at regular intervals, and if you get it wrong it can end up lame, or stupid.
If you have been writing free verse poetry and want to try something more structured, why not give the villanelle a try? The form has been around for over three hundred years, and has been successfully written by famous poets - Dylan Thomas has one that almost everyone would have heard of 'Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light' . If you've never heard of it, well, do yourself a favour and read it. It does the job so well, so deeply and it has been moving people for over seventy years.
My best villanelle so far isn't so famous, but it has received favorable comment from poets wiser than me. Here it is if you're interested (careful, adult theme):-
Repressed memory syndrome
She didn't know what she would find,
she hoped an inner peace may rise
as she searched back to her child-mind.
Not innocent, she wasn't blind
as she looked deep with knowing eyes.
She didn't know what she would find,
reluctance should have been a sign
of what she hadn't realised -
the secrets locked in her child-mind.
Hoping for something soft and kind,
recalling only pain and lies.
She didn't know that she would find
an image of a harsh face, lined,
hard callused hands and frightening sighs
bewildering to her child-mind.
Her mother had ignored her cries,
the bruises on her skinny thighs.
She didn't know what she would find,
she'll bury again her child-mind.
This site gives a studied look at one villanelle poem - read it and you will understand the form. I recommend having a rhyming dictionary close at hand if you want to give the villanelle a try.
Frustrating yes, but when you get it right, you can be justly proud of yourself. It isn't easy to get the right lines to use in this form. A villanelle repeats two lines at regular intervals, and if you get it wrong it can end up lame, or stupid.
If you have been writing free verse poetry and want to try something more structured, why not give the villanelle a try? The form has been around for over three hundred years, and has been successfully written by famous poets - Dylan Thomas has one that almost everyone would have heard of 'Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light' . If you've never heard of it, well, do yourself a favour and read it. It does the job so well, so deeply and it has been moving people for over seventy years.
My best villanelle so far isn't so famous, but it has received favorable comment from poets wiser than me. Here it is if you're interested (careful, adult theme):-
Repressed memory syndrome
She didn't know what she would find,
she hoped an inner peace may rise
as she searched back to her child-mind.
Not innocent, she wasn't blind
as she looked deep with knowing eyes.
She didn't know what she would find,
reluctance should have been a sign
of what she hadn't realised -
the secrets locked in her child-mind.
Hoping for something soft and kind,
recalling only pain and lies.
She didn't know that she would find
an image of a harsh face, lined,
hard callused hands and frightening sighs
bewildering to her child-mind.
Her mother had ignored her cries,
the bruises on her skinny thighs.
She didn't know what she would find,
she'll bury again her child-mind.
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