My QPF 2009 program is already suitably inked, with many sessions marked that I just cannot miss. One of those sessions features the blistering soundscape rock of Bremen Town Musician. Their 2008 album, No one is holding a gun to your head (Songs to Run to), is still stealing my breath and I am busting at [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘interview’
July 22, 2009
QPF Spotlight #7 – Noelle Janaczewska
Today the spotlight is shining on Noëlle Janaczewska. Noëlle is an accomplished writer in a number of styles including poetry, plays, performance texts and radio scripts. I had the pleasure of talking to her about her influences, the role of spontaneity the importance of performance and the writing process. Here’s what she had to say:
What is the role of [...]
July 20, 2009
QPF Spotlight #6 – Fiona Privitera
Spotlight #6 takes a look at local shining light, Fiona Privitera. Recently, I have had the pleasure of working with Fiona as part of my residency at Cosmopolitan Cafe and am mighty happy to announce that I will be publishing a chapbook of her work (alongside another local poet Jonathon Hadwen), so keep your eyes [...]
June 1, 2009
A quick chat with Jeffrey Harpeng
Jeffrey Harpeng is one of Australia’s leading writers of haiku, haibun, tanka and tanka prose. He will read a selection of his work at the final Poetry on the Deck event at Riverbend Books on Tuesday June 23. I took the time to fire a few questions his way. Here’s what he had to say …
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May 26, 2009
A quick chat with Marisa Allen (Bremen Town Musician)
Marisa Allen (Bremen Town Musician) is feature musician and poet and the next SpeedPoets event (2pm Sunday, June 7 @ The Alibi Room, 720 Brunswick St. New Farm) as well as one of the features at the final Riverbend Books, Poetry on the Deck event on Tuesday June 23 (click here for details).
We caught up recently and [...]
February 15, 2009
Chains of Flashing Images – an interview with Max Ryan (part II)
Like all good things part II of this interview has been a long time coming, but is well worth the wait…
I have been fortunate enough to see you perform live with Cleis now on several occasions, most recently at Queensland Poetry Festival 2008. That show is still resonating with me four months later. The performance [...]
January 24, 2009
Poem or Song? – the words of Leonard Cohen
After being blown away by the power of Neil Young this week, I am now hotly anticipating the arrival of fellow Canadian, Leonard Cohen. He has not toured these shores since 1985 when this Lost Shark was just a pup and he has made no secret that this is the final international tour, so to [...]
January 18, 2009
Chains of Flashing Images – an interview with Max Ryan (part 1)
Max Ryan is a poet whose ’words sift deep into life, and are full of power and insight.’ (Judith Beveridge) Max is also renowed for his work with musician Cleis Pearce, their CD ‘White Cow’, winning several music industry awards. This Lost Shark caught up with Max recently to discuss the good things in life… poetry [...]
January 14, 2009
Jumping the Poetic Hurdle (part 6) – an interview with Tiggy Johnson
To continue the discussion about the publication and distribution of poetry in Australia, I thought it would be interesting to speak with publishers of literary journals both in print and online. First up I spoke with Tiggy Johnson from literary annual, page seventeen.
As a small, independent publisher, what do you see are the major challenges [...]
January 9, 2009
Speak Out: Poetry and the Spoken Word an interview with Hinemoana Baker (part 1)
This Lost Shark has been thinking alot about poetry and the Spoken Word lately.
Spoken Word boomed in popularity during the 1950s and 60s. Poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti took their words to the street and found favour with mass audiences, breaking down the barriers of inaccessibility usually associated with poetry. [...]
