Proximity Credits & Gigs

Copyright © Janet Jackson 2008. Photo by Frances Macaulay Forde.

Coming events

  • Thursday 11 December 2008, Spearwood Library. I will perform, speak, answer questions and run a short open mike session. Refreshments afterwards. 10:30-11:30am. 9 Coleville Crescent, Spearwood. Funded by writingWA 's Poets in Libraries programme.

  • Sunday 14 December 2008. Missing Link Festival. Art market, performances, poetry slam, films. I'm performing with guitar from 5pm in the art market, and performing in the Poetry Slam, 6-8pm. Spectrum Project Space, 221 Beaufort Street, Northbridge.

  • Term 1, 2009 poetry and creative writing courses
    I'll be teaching 'Sculpting in English - explorations in poetry writing', on Fridays, and
    'Creative Writing - Expand your Boundaries', on Wednesday evenings.
    Challenger TAFE , Applecross. Enrol through Challenger TAFE.

    • Previous guest performances and workshops

  • 2 November 2008. Performance at Darlington Arts Festival.
  • Term 4, 2008. Course, 'Creative Writing - Expand your Boundaries', at Challenger TAFE .
  • 1 September 2008. Workshop at KSP Writers Centre: Sculpting in English.
  • August/September 2008. WA Spring Poetry Festival. Featured at Opening Party, Openface, Walking on Water.
  • 4 August 2008. Featured at Passionate Tongues, part of the Overload Poetry Festival.
  • 12 July 2008. Workshop at Tom Collins House: Sculpting in English.
  • 1 May 2008. Featured poet at Voicebox.
  • 10 April 2008. Featured poet at Cottonmouth .
  • 7 March 2008. Support act at de Ness @ Scots, Fremantle.
  • October 2007. WA Spring Poetry Festival. Featured at PoetTrees, Poets Corner, Emergency Poets & magazine launch.
  • 9 September 2007. One of the featured poets at the poetry open day at KSP Writers Centre.
  • 3 September 2007. One of the featured poets at WOW (Walking on Water).
  • August 2007. Invited guest of Overload Poetry Festival, Melbourne.
  • 21 July 2007. Featured poet at Poets Corner.
  • 22 June 2007. Joint winner of the poetry slam at 'Stand and Deliver' poetry night, Perth. The other winners were Vivienne Glance and Simon Cox.
  • 6 February 2007. Featured poet at WOW (Walking on Water).
  • September 2006. Featured poet of the Perth Spring Poetry Festival. I did several performances and a panel discussion.
  • Between 2004 and 2006 I did guest performances at several of Perth's regular readings - Voicebox, OpenMouth and Poets Corner - and was a featured reader at various events at KSP Writers Centre.
  • In June 2005 I won a poetry slam in a Dublin bar, with a poem composed over a Guinness during the break.

    • Electronic publications

  • Masthead ( Poetryetc special issue) : Hardcore
  • nthposition : black strings , Evidence , of my
  • Hamilton Stone Review : An update for the Pilgrims Guide
  • Malleable Jangle : Skeleton, Unavoidable, Way over here in Australia
  • Creatrix : input, That radio moment
  • WA Poets Inc Fresh Poetry : Echo and ache secret , I am holding / alienation , Songless
  • Numbat : Amid the running , Coracle , Gentle touch of elsewhere , One more voice , Curl , torrential , Liquefy , Davy Byrne's
  • Pixel Papers: But, Camping, Cave, Centred, Dream 22, Dream 45 (walking), Fire, For the cool one, I will be silent, Imagine being the singer's wife, Into the moshpit, Keypal, Lawn, Like each other, Loud, Mask, Ripped, Samantha, 7 weeks, The fisherwoman, The neon name, To a word, When the train came, I cried, Wink
  • Fieralingue Poets Corner (l'Instituto Pedagogico della Provincia di Bolzano, Italy): A takeaway wish on a takeaway star, Breastfeeding a newborn , Come Home , Dream 40 , Lay your noise on me , In the mirror-maze , I am your sunlight , My Brother Is Dead , Take a stick to the truth , The fisherwoman , Would you like some soup?
  • KSP Writers Centre Newsletter:
    July 2007 : The sound
    August 2007 : Here are my poems , Poets reading

    • PDF publications

  • The Broadkill Review: Entry statement, George bush is not the problem, Inside yourself..., Melbourne, August 2007, Nine levels, Steel tube, trucked

    • Print publications

  • In whatever voice (August 2007): Chapbook. 26 of my poems.
  • Listen. (September 2006): Chapbook. 25 of my poems.
  • In the church of my skull (December 2005): Chapbook. 20 of my poems.
  • Blast : When we need him , Celtic knots , Isosceles , Review of 'permitted to fall'
  • Cottonmouth : Split , Coracle , Tarmac , nail
  • The Recessive Type: Nameless , Un/speak/able
  • The Weighing of the Heart (Sunline Press 2007): In the eyes of it
  • The Word Is Out : Receive , Now mouth , Steve Smart at La Tropicana
  • The Mozzie: Equipment , Heaven is, The Director, The secret
  • Poets Corner (Perth 2006): Ripped, Suicide bomber
  • Thirst: Damask, Now this is a poem about coffee
  • Marginata: Windows
  • Word-Thirst: Bald and Hairy, Don't Go There, Hasp, Instrument, Lip-prints, Storm and Sight, Why I..., Yet not his sister, You again
  • An Endless Afternoon (Lioness Publications, Western Australia, 2000): 14 weeks, A female poem, Breastfeeding a newborn, Callan is born, Samantha, 7 weeks, Sling, What it feels like (on a good day)
  • Wasteland: Observation, Winter 1990
  • Heartland: Truth Eyes
  • The West Australian: My Brother Is Dead, New baby
  • aversion: Adam, "I'm the daughter, so I'll get the mortgage"
  • Mattoid: A female poem
  • Raven: Night Walk
  • Demented Bliss (Central Coast Poetry Society, Queensland, 1990): Billboard Girl

    • Public displays

  • Poet Trees, Murray St Mall, Perth, October 2007: Dream 40, Please wait to be seated, Neil Young is crying out of him
  • KSP Writers Centre, Perth, September 2007: ing, hyper/space, xtend, Nameless
  • Poet Trees, Murray St Mall, Perth, September 2005: Arm you with magic, tree breaks
  • Greenmount Library, Perth, September 2005: A takeaway wish on a takeaway star
  • Alexander Library, Perth, September 2005: Coracle, Fly eating a crumb
  • Alexander Library, Perth, September 2004: Hair and guts and numbers

    • Broadcasts

  • 6 June 2008. 6EBA (Perth), World of Art with Peter Jeffery. I was interviewed and performed I am your sunlight , The space and Celtic knots .
  • Some of my poems were broadcast on 6UVS-FM (Perth) in 1990 and on RTR-FM (Perth) in 1992.

    • Competitions

  • Wedding Plans was commended in the Society of Women Writers Bronze Quill Poetry Award, 1993.
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