Poetica Christi Press is delighted to congratulate one of our authors, Cathy Altmann, whose book Circumnavigation won the 2015 Anne Elder Award for the best first book of poetry published in Australia at the recent Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary awards. The book is available here
2015 Dangerously Poetic Byron Bay Writers Festival
Calling All Poets !
2015 Dangerously Poetic Byron Bay Writers Festival
Poetry Prize
Dangerously Poetic and the Byron Bay Writers Festival are sponsoring a national poetry prize to be awarded at the Byron Bay Writers Festival on Saturday, 8 August at an off-site venue, The Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay.
Poets are invited to write up to 40 lines on the theme- Change.
New Website
Welcome to the new look Poetica Christi Website.
Hopefully the new format will provide a more enjoyable experience of the site.
Some images (such as the one to the side) were provided courtesy of Erica Lewis.
Order books directly
You can now order Poetica Christi Books directly. Please view the catalog and order form for details.
Threshold
Maree Silver’s poetry touches every sense. In Threshold – a miscellany, Maree creates imagery that is uniquely Australian. Tanks lean rustily; corellas squabble; frogs croak challenges from the billabong; the citrussy perfume of lemon-scented gums infuses nostrils while earthy ochres blur into cellophane sky. Raised in the Wimmera, Maree recalls childhood memories of desert, plain and river. They come to glorious, descriptive life through her poetry and exquisite photography, and continue to live in harmony with poems of suburbia, family and adulthood. Threshold – a miscellany – poems of country and city will connect you to the Australia of the Dreamtime and the Australia of today. LEIGH HAY
Newsletter (February 2015)
Welcome to the first edition of the Wordsmiths newsletter for 2015.
As Wordsmiths, we’re in for another year of meeting and workshopping together once a month, to read our latest effort.and have it read to us.
This got me thinking. For me, one of the joys of writing a poem is being able to share it with others. I really enjoy reading my poems out loud to a living (or non-living) audience…
Poem of the Month (March)
Threads and Patterns
Held fast by threads of language
thought strands are woven
into a web of words
Spun lightly
to catch the imagination
using the colours of life
the pattern unique
The fabric endures
© Maree Silver, 2015 [As published in her book ‘Threshold’]