The Emerging Writers Festival is happening in Melbourne, Australia next month.
The Emerging Writers’ Festival is a not-for-profit organisation whose foundations are built on supporting emerging writers. They are a place where creativity and innovation is celebrated, where new talent is nurtured and where diverse voices from across Australia are represented.
For all sessions and workshops check out their website here:
I’ve been writing lots of poetry in recent months due to being inspired by people and the world around me. Things which have been bubbling to the surface and needing to breathe, have forced its way out.
April is poetry month and I have been actively participating in the Dirty Thirty (one poem every day for 30 days in April).
Truth be told, most of my work has been filled with profanities but this one was written whilst contemplating my parents and is one I would like to share with you:
Imperishable Stars
Imperishable Stars
Never to rise nor set
Your luminous hearts fixed
Watching in abject silence
Epithets eternally emblazoned
Within and upon your earthly kin
Eternally through the promised premise
Incandescent in dogging darkness
(C) T. Altman 2016
Chester Beatty Papyrus (written from the point of view of a woman)
The voice of the swallow speaks and says:
“Day is breaking – where will you go?”
O bird, you shall not distract me,
For I have found my loved one in his bed,
And my heard is more than glad
When he said to me:
“I shall not go afar off,
But my hand is in your hand,
And I shall not stroll about,
Being with you in every pleasant place.”
So he makes me the foremost of maidens,
And he injures not my heart.
I will not self-edit… not for anyone or anything.
If my words displease you, its not my burden to carry but your own.
In some respects, at least I managed to bring up some kind of emotive response.
Perusing my pages, looking for signs and omens of what has been or will be.
Clues perceived between the lines is your own hypothesis.
What is conveyed and understood is your own perception.
That is what expression is and its my unapologetic art form.
T. Altman 2016
One of my favorite books is Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The following quote resonates for me when it comes to creative writers…
Just discovered that an old acquaintance helped set this up which is a new organisation revolving around poetry and spoken word in Melbourne:
http://melbournespokenword.com/about/
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