Event  Judith’s first book of poems, Event, is now available. A preview of the book is available on the Salt Publishing website and orders can be made through the publisher's site, InBooks (Australia) (email:
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Reviews of Event Peter Coghill, review of Event in Five Bells, Autumn 2008: Quotation:
"... delicacy of phrasing, form and outlook is the most distinctive feature of Bishop's writing and allows intimate experiences and perceptions to live for the reader..." Jaya Savige, "Elemental exhalations" (review of Event with other recent books of poetry), The Australian Literary Review, March 5, 2008. Quotation: "... Bishop's poems make you want to stand up and shout them aloud in a tempest, spurred by the knowledge you would be speaking its elemental tongue. [...] [I]t is one of the best first collections of poetry published here since Wright's The Moving Image in 1946." Oliver Dennis, "In Brief", Times Literary Supplement, 16-23 November, 2007. Quotation: "... her poetry's quiet humility counts as one of its foremost attractions. An authentic and unsentimental belief in the capacity for tenderness between creatures lies at the heart of Bishop's writing." Rose Lucas, 'Behind the shining paint', Australian Book Review, n. 296, November 2007. Quotation: "... Bishop's poetry creates an aesthetic surface which mimics the stasis of death and also harbours the 'flutter in the flank', the pulse of possibility visible to the attentive reader-observer." Geoff Page, on the ABC Radio National Book Show , 8 November, 2007. | News 14th August -- Event has been shortlisted in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry . 8th August -- Event has been shortlisted in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.
Fellowship of Australian Writers Anne Elder Award
Event has been awarded the 2008 Anne Elder prize for the best first book of poetry published in the preceding year. Poem short-listed for the 2008 Australian Book Review Poetry Prize
Judith's shortlisted poem, titled 'T/here', appeared in the March issue of ABR.
Festival franco-anglais de poésie (8 - 12 October 2008)
Judith will take part in the Melbourne stage of the French-English Poetry Festival , to be hosted by the Australian Poetry Centre in Melbourne.
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference (30 June - 6 July 2008)
Judith participated in a panel entitled 'Local Memory, Global Amnesia - Art, Community and Remembering'. Her paper was titled "'Another perspective on what's nearest to me': French poets and the evolution and memory of the Chinese script.
Recent Publications Review of Inger Christiansen's Butterfly Valley: A Requiem (New Directions) in the current Sequence (II) issue of Verse magazine. 'Interval' in The Best Australian Poems 2007, ed. Peter Rose, Black Inc. 'Still Life with Cockles and Shells' in The Best Australian Poetry 2007, ed. John Tranter, U.Q.P. Two new poems in Salt magazine's first online issue. In the French poetry and prose issue of Verse magazine : - A translated extract of Philippe Jaccottet's Truinas: le 21 avril 2001 (and an excellent essay by Kevin Hart on Jaccottet)
- A review of Gérard Macé's Wood Asleep (Bloodaxe Books).
A translated chapter of Philippe Jaccottet's book Rilke, in a recent issue of Agenda magazine (U.K.), v. 42, n. 3 - 4.
Favourite Links http://world-bird-sanctuary.blogspot.com/A blog with posts by Stephanie Pippin, a talented poet from St Louis, Missouri, and videos of new hatchlings at a Missouri bird sanctuary. |