Spoken Word

Finding My Feet is a new anthology from Melbourne Poets Union. Poetry read by Ezra Bix and Di Cousens. Produced by Di Cousens.

In this episode, Palestinian-Australian activist, musician and intellectual Yousef Alreemawi and Lebanese-Australian writer and poet Farah Beaini have a beautiful dialogue about the poetry and life of famed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.To learn more about the Averroes Project:https://www.facebook.com/averroesarabcentre

On this episode, you’ll be listening to an interview with Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon. (D-Napoleon) is a poet, songwriter and educator from Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. ​She is the winner of both the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and Katharine Susannah Prichard Poetry Prize, shortlistee for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and a two-time finalist for the Penelope Niven Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Her debut book of poetry, First Blood, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2019. Today we are speaking to her about her second book of poetry, “ If There is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears”, which is out now via Gazebo Book’s poetry imprint, Life Before Man Books.https://www.nataliedamjanovichnapoleon.net/https://gazebobooks.com.au/product/if-there-is-a-butterfly-that-drinks-tears

David Brooks talks to Di Cousens about his 50 years in poetry and his new book, The Other Side of Daylight. Published by University of Queensland Press.

Ray Liversidge’s latest book is …of a sudden published in 2023 by Ginninderra Press. His other books are: Oradour-sur-Glane published in 2017 by Littlefox Press. A French/English version of the book was published in 2019. no suspicious circumstances: portraits of poets (dead); The Barrier Range; The Divorce Papers; and Obeying the Call. He also appeared with two other poets in the first issue of Triptych Poets. His verse novel The Barrier Range was adapted for stage and performed as Seeking Fabled Waters at the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival. In that year he also won the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and was recommended in the Rosemary Dobson Prize. His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals and anthologies in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Scotland, Ireland and Spain. See www.poetray.wordpress.comHis latest collection, of a sudden, can be purchased here: https://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/2829/Ray+Liversidge+%2F+...of+a+sudden Produced & Presented by Tina Giannoukos

In today's show, we play a recording of Castlemaine poet, Rachael Wenona Guy reading live at Chamber Poets on 9 March . At the very end, there may be a special treat by the resident band Black Forest Smoke.To purchase Rachael's collection "The Hungry Air" go to: https://walleahpress.com.au/bookshop/product/guy-rachael-poetry-the-hungry-air/To find out more about Chamber Poets, find their facebook group here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/160882430777282

Di Cousens talks to Wiradjuri poet, Jeanine Leane, about her new book, Gawimarra Gathering. This is the second part in a two part series.

Di Cousens talks to Wiradjuri poet, Jeanine Leane, about her new book, Gawimarra Gathering. This is part one in a two part series.

Amanda Anastasi is a Melbourne poet whose work has been published as locally as the Artist's Lane walls in Windsor to The Massachusetts Review in the US. Her latest collection is The Inheritors (Black Pepper, 2021). Amanda's work is  published in Best Australian Science Writing 2021 and 2022, Australian Poetry Journal, Griffith Review, Cordite Poetry Review, FourW, Short and Twisted, and Right Now. She is a two-time winner of the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize and was  Poet in Residence at the Monash Climate Change Communications Research Hub, where she wrote poetry to raise awareness about ecological issues and the climate crisis. She is also the convenor of La Mama Poetica.Her poetry can be found on her website: https://www.amandaanastasipoetry.com/Her poetry collection The Inheritors can be purchased here: https://blackpepperpublishing.com/anastasiTI.htmlHer YouTube channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4CXosMpl_5a_rcs-d--e  Picture: Nicholas Walton-HealeyProduced & Presented by Tina Giannoukos