Skype Session 6: Writing places (2014)

Skype Session 6:

Writing places – Jill Jones

‘Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time: …’
– Gary Snyder, ‘Riprap’

Writing Places with Jill Jones will explore writing about locales, regions, climates and environments. It will investigate how poets write place, and will to focus on both the non-urban and urban, as well as personal interiors—rooms, houses, yards. It will encompass, therefore, ideas about time, the body, memory and journey.

The workshop will also consider ecopoetic and psychogeographic writing as ways of thinking creatively in language.

VENUE: Armidale Dumaresq Council War Memorial Library, 122 Faulkner St, Armidale
DATE: Saturday, May 31.
TIME: 11:00 am to 12:00 noon.
COST: $15 members, $20 non-members

BOOKINGS: Bookings are essential as places are limited. Phone (02) 6772 7210 or send an email message to admin@newc.org.au. Alternatively call in at the office during opening hours.

Please note: Bookings must be made with the New England Writers Centre (not the Armidale Library) and must be paid two weeks in advance to hold your booking.

Jill Jones

Jill Jones was born in Sydney and now lives in Adelaide. She won the Mary Gilmore Award for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star; her fourth book, Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems, won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Her latest book is The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher and Wattmann 2014).

Her work has featured in a number of recent anthologies including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry.

She has been widely published in most leading literary periodicals in Australia as well as in print magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain, France, Czech Republic and India. She is also widely published online.

In 2007, she was featured at the 23rd Festival International de la Poésie in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. In 2009, she took part in the Micro-Festival Poetry Series held in Prague and Brno, Czech Republic.

She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, where she also teaches.

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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 admin@newc.org.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.

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