This week, the Tuesday Poem
blog features 'Iambic
Pentameter' by Patricia Sykes, taken from the poet's collection of
poems called The Abbotsford Mysteries. Tuesday Poem hub editor this
week is Catherine Bateson who tells us: "This is a
collection of poems which give voice to the complex and varied experiences of
girls housed in the Abbotsford convent..., gleaned from interviews Sykes
conducted with over seventy ex-residents."
Patricia Sykes is a Melbourne-based
poet and librettist. Her poems have won various prestigious Australian prizes
including the Newcastle Poetry Prize. She has collaborated with Australian
composer Liza Lim to
create Mother Tongue, a piece for soprano and 15 instruments,
and The Navigator, a chamber opera. These works have been performed
both in Australia and in festivals overseas, including the Huddersfield
International Contemporary Music Festival, the Festival d'Automne and the
Chekhov Theatre Festival. Her two previous poetry collections, Wire
Dancing and Modewarre - home ground, were both published
by Spinifex Press.
Link to the Tuesday Poem
site here.
Tuesday Poem is a New
Zealand initiative founded by Wellington writer and publisher Mary McCallum and
Dunedin artist and writer Claire Beynon. The Tuesday Poem collective is a group
of 30 poets from around the English-speaking world who 'gather' weekly to share
and celebrate poetry -- by themselves and poets they admire.
Also, in the spirit of
admiration and celebration, please check out the Sarah
Broom Poetry Prize, which closes March 14.
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About this week's Tuesday
Poem editor: Catherine Bateson is a poet and writer for
children and young adults. She is currently working on a novel based on her
time in Paris, on an Australia Council for the Arts funded residency programme.
Her most recent poetry collection, Marriage for Beginners, was
published by John Leonard Press.
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