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November 2011
In Hell with Instructions—an evening of poetry inspirations and challenges with Felicity Plunkett, hosted by Poetzinc.
Felicity’s talk will trace some of the instructions that have inspired her, and some joyful, exhilarating and occasionally hellish adventures in her writing and reading. After a short break she will read from her prize-winning collection of poetry Vanishing Point.
DATE: Monday 7 November, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
VENUE: Trax at the Railway, 222 Rusden Street, Armidale.
COST: Donation - $5 at the door.
Inquiries: Yve, phone 6772 6767
If you wish to join Felicity and Poetzinc for dinner, à la carte dining is an optional extra, 6pm for 6.30 at the Trax, phone Poetzinc to book 6772 6767 or 6772 7840.
Felicity Plunkett is a widely-published reviewer, writing for newspapers and journals including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, Australian Book Review and The Canberra Times. Felicity spent nine years of her academic career at UNE, where she was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002.
Her short story ‘Ruined Girls’ was commended in the Josephine Ulrick Prizes in 2010, and another, ‘Sleeping Like a Baby’ was a winner in the ABC Radio National ‘writers on our wavelength competition’ and produced for radio in 2003.
She was for two years a winner of a $5000 poetry prize in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for ‘young poets of unusual promise’. Her debut collection of poetry, Vanishing Point, won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize and was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, the Arts ACT Judith Wright Prize and the Anne Elder Award.
Poet and critic David McCooey reviewing the collection described it as “extraordinary... dynamic ... intensely original and often comic” and Plunkett as a major new talent. Writing for the American journal of Australian Studies Antipodes, A. Frances Johnson wrote of ‘indelible emotional power’, ‘cut-glass brilliance’. ‘Plunkett’s poetic invocations of female desire … are often matchless’ and the collection ‘ a subtle marriage of irony and emotion’. Poet Stephen Lawrence praised an ‘intense, lyrical debut’.
See also: Yve Louis interviews Felicity Plunkett (2011)
Inquiries
All workshops must be booked and paid for in advance. For information about the program or to book for events:
Phone (02) 6772 7210 or send an email message to newc44@dodo.com.au
NEWC membership entitles you to do the workshop at the reduced member rate.
You can become a member when you book a workshop. Our annual membership fees are:
| Adults: | $30.00 including GST |
| Students (tertiary): | $20.00 including GST |
| Students (under 18): | $15.00 including GST |
Venue
Unless otherwise stated, all events will be held at the New England Writers' Centre (NEWC), in the Neighbourhood Centre, 129 Rusden Street, Armidale (between the Council Building and the Town Hall).
Access
During opening hours and workshops, access is through the Cinders Lane car park (first door on left, in the corridor).
Parking
There is a one-hour parking restriction in the Cinders Lane carpark.
The New England Writers' Centre is assisted by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
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