Voicebox At CLANCY'S

All voicebox fans - VOICEBOX will be at Clancy's Fremantle on the First Monday on the month from now on.

VOICEBOX JULY 1st

Voicebox will be at CLANCY'S Fish Pub - Fremantle

THURSDAY APRIL 1ST Doors open 7pm

celebrate the Tom Collins

Poetry Prize

POETS IN PERFORMANCE

This year's FAW(WA) Tom Collins Poetry Prize.

With NSW poet Les Wicks as judge, NINE West Australians received recognition in this Australia wide competition.

Fremantle singer/songwriter Ruthie Parker will also delight you with her very beautiful voice and contemporary original songs.

Results in the competition were:

First prize: "The Thaumaturge" by Christopher Konrad (WA)
Second prize: "Halfway Across the Desert" by Karen Dixon (WA)

Highly Commended:
"Worship" by Mags Webster (WA)
"The Crescent and the Cross" by Paula Jones (WA)
"China Landscapes" by Glen Phillips (WA)
"The Balinese Sonnets" by Roland Leach (WA)

Commended:
"Dispersion of Seed" by John C. Ryan (WA)
"From Lighthouse Hill" by Dick Alderson (WA)
"My Grandmothers" by Julie Watts (WA)
"Change" by Kathryn Lomer (TAS)

(Kathryn Lomer and Roland Leach will not be reading)

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THURSDAY MARCH 4TH @ 7.30 pm

POETS IN PERFORMANCE

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Women poets of and about Afghanistan

SAWA-Australia, the Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan, is dedicated to raising funds for human rights, education, nutrition, health, safety, and improving the self-esteem of Afghanistan's women and children, including those who live as refugees in Pakistan.

In honour of International Women’s Day and to promote the work of SAWA, poems by famous and unknown Afghan women will be read by Chilla Bulbeck and Sarah Leighton of SAWA.

• Nadia Anjuman, who had been gaining a name for herself as a poet in Afghan literary circles, before she died, aged 25, in 2005 in Herat after being beaten by her husband. A literature undergraduate at Herat University, she published her first volume of poems shortly prior to her death, titled Gule Dudi (Dark Flower).

· Contributors to the Afghan Women's Writing Project (AWWP) http://awwproject.wordpress.com/ (). The project was set up by US novelist Masha Hamilton as a way for Afghan women to share their experiences with the rest of the world. 36 women from across Afghanistan publish their work anonymously, their own families often not aware of what they are doing. If found, these women could face serious reprisals. One writer says she has ‘received a death threat from Taliban’.

· Granaz Moussavi’s work, including ‘Afghan Woman’ will also be in the program. Granaz Moussavi has been invited to read her poetry in France, the USA, London and Goteborg. Her collections include پا برهنه تا صبح (Barefoot Till Morning) and وازهای زن بی‌اجازه (Songs Of Forbidden Woman). She recently directed the movie "My Tehran for Sale" (which SAWA hopes to bring to Perth for a showing mid-year).

· Ros and Steve Barnes write and perform songs about people and places in our everyday lives. Steve is an award-winning songwriter and Ros interprets his songs with clarity and strength. It's not complicated or tricksy- just one voice, one fine guitar, good words and the whole thing comes together Ros and Steve Barnes write and perform songs about people and places in our everyday lives. Steve is an award-winning songwriter and Ros interprets his songs with clarity and strength. It's not complicated or tricksy- just one voice, one fine guitar, good words and the whole thing comes together.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4TH @ 7.30 pm

POETS IN PERFORMANCE

ANDREW LANSDOWN

JANE CORNES

JANE CORNES is a well known food and travel writer based in Perth. For many years, she ran the WOW writers evening and is half of the gal duo Doris. If you have ever heard Jane sing you will not want to miss the opportunity to hear her words and melodies again.

ANDREW LANSDOWN is a Western Australian poet, essayist and novelist. His poems and stories have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers and are represented in 80 anthologies. He has won various poetry awards, including the Western Australian Premier’s Award (twice) and the Adelaide Arts Festivals’ prestigious John Bray National Poetry Award. Andrew has published 16 books and six chapbooks. His most recent books are: Fontanelle (poetry, Five Islands Press); The Dispossessed (short stories, Interactive Press); With My Knife, Dragonfox and The Red Dragon (fantasy novels, Omnibus Books/ Scholastic Australia); and Birds in Mind: Australian Nature Poems (Wombat Books). Website: andrewlansdown.com.

Deember International Human Rights day event

THURSDAY DECEMBER 3RD @ 7.30 pm

POETS IN PERFORMANCE

International human rights DAY

‘Mum! This world lies to us’

book launch by Dr Roderic Pitty
Transcreated by

VIVIENNE GLANCE

AFEIF ISMAIL

Guest speaker ABDULLA ADAM

Performance by WAZA Multicultural Musical Group

@ LA TROPICANA 177 High Street Fremantle

Fair Trade coffee and tasty snacks

OPEN MIC – POETS & SINGERS

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Dr Roderic Pitty teaches international politics at UWA, focusing on global governance, human rights and contemporary Europe. He has assisted lawyers representing Aboriginal families who have lost loved ones in custody. He has written about the unfinished business of Indigenous citizenship in Australia and New Zealand in a book of essays by various authors titled Does History Matter? (ANU E Press, 2009, available athttp://epress.anu.edu.au/immigration_citation.html) which has analysis of refugee policy inAustralia.

WAZA Multicultural Musical Group is community based Sudanese cultural group in WA. We have approximately 6 members and a wide range of supporters from diverse cultural groups within the community. WAZA Musical Multicultural Group was formed to promote acceptance and understanding of cultural diversity in our society, using music and performance.

Abdulla Adam

Sudanese Australian Poet

He will speak about the Transcreation

SEPTEMBER: SPRING POETRY FESTIVAL

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD
POETS IN PERFORMANCE
RACHAEL PETRIDIS
& THE OOTA POETS

Rachael Petridis is a Fremantle Poet. As a founding member of OOTA she has been involved with poetry readings and fund raising since 1998. She was on the editorial committee of OOTA's third anthology Friday's Page. Rachael has published widely in Australian Literary Journals and anthologies. In 2004 she was selected for the New Poets Program at Wollongong NSW. In August this year she won a place at the Varuna Longlines Poetry Workshop, Katoomba, NSW as one of four poets selected nationally.

The OOTA Poets are all members of the Out Of The Asylum Writer's Group. The name is taken from the Fremantle Arts Centre which was historically the Fremantle Women's Asylum, where they meet on alternate Friday mornings at 1000 am with facilitator and inspiration, poet Shane McAuley.