Submit to me, and I will bestow on you
the highest honour, in all of the Literary Kingdom.
I will determine your A R T
edit your wannas to want tos
wash out your dialect
make you sound more Australian
I say what poetry is and this, isn’t a poem
You will not change the narrative voice
You will not truncate your sentences
You will punctuate correctly
follow all the rules they teach
You will be educated in literature
or else you really needn’t bother
We only take serious writers seriously
so thank you kindly for your submission
please resubmit at a much later date
I thought I’d start off my blog post with a fitting poem, which was recently published in Paradise anthology. I think the poem speaks for itself. Meanwhile, it’s been busy busy busy for me. I’ve been curating the literature/spoken word component of Antithesis, a festival to challenge Greek stereotypes and show that we are more than wog boy, greek dancing and souvlaki. It’s also trying to make a statement, that we are here, we are producing art, and we want to be heard. I will be performing at two events for Antithesis, this coming Wednesday at ‘I speak, you listen: words outside the wog box‘ and the following Monday La Mama courthouse for ‘sex, love and the whole damn Greek thing‘, in collaboration with prominent musicians, it is one gig that I’m truly excited about. More details on my ‘upcoming gigs page’. I’ve written an article about Antithesis over at Overland and hope that people will join the discussion. I think Antithesis will mean different things to different people but fundamentally what is important is that a movement is happening. I think they are putting it up on the blog tomorrow, so don’t stress if you click through and it’s not there. I’m also going to be in the English section of the Neos Kosmos newspaper tomorrow. Here is a link to the online version. I hope I didn’t say anything too controversial, but that’s me I guess!
Some other exciting news is my short story, ‘The recipe’, which was selected for the Overland master-class in 2009, was recently longlisted for the FISH short story competition in Ireland. I’m really proud and happy about the longlisting and hope that I’ll find a publisher for the story soon. I’m also going to have a short prose poem published in the next issue of Short and Twisted, and soon the anthology os second-generation Greek-Australian poets will be published by Australian Scholarly publishing. The title they are going with is Southern Sun, Aegean Light: Poetry of Second-Generation Greek Australians. I like it. And also on a more academic note, I’ll be starting prac placement at Illura Press in two weeks. Very excited!
Till the next installment. I hope to see you at one of my gigs!
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The literary judge
March 18, 2011 at 7:46 am (Creative commentary, Poems (PG rated)) (Antithesis, antithesis festival, FISH short story competition, Illura Press, Paradise anthology, Short and Twisted, The literary judge)
Submit to me, and I will bestow on you
the highest honour, in all of the Literary Kingdom.
I will determine your A R T
edit your wannas to want tos
wash out your dialect
make you sound more Australian
I say what poetry is and this, isn’t a poem
You will not change the narrative voice
You will not truncate your sentences
You will punctuate correctly
follow all the rules they teach
You will be educated in literature
or else you really needn’t bother
We only take serious writers seriously
so thank you kindly for your submission
please resubmit at a much later date
I thought I’d start off my blog post with a fitting poem, which was recently published in Paradise anthology. I think the poem speaks for itself. Meanwhile, it’s been busy busy busy for me. I’ve been curating the literature/spoken word component of Antithesis, a festival to challenge Greek stereotypes and show that we are more than wog boy, greek dancing and souvlaki. It’s also trying to make a statement, that we are here, we are producing art, and we want to be heard. I will be performing at two events for Antithesis, this coming Wednesday at ‘I speak, you listen: words outside the wog box‘ and the following Monday La Mama courthouse for ‘sex, love and the whole damn Greek thing‘, in collaboration with prominent musicians, it is one gig that I’m truly excited about. More details on my ‘upcoming gigs page’. I’ve written an article about Antithesis over at Overland and hope that people will join the discussion. I think Antithesis will mean different things to different people but fundamentally what is important is that a movement is happening. I think they are putting it up on the blog tomorrow, so don’t stress if you click through and it’s not there. I’m also going to be in the English section of the Neos Kosmos newspaper tomorrow. Here is a link to the online version. I hope I didn’t say anything too controversial, but that’s me I guess!
Some other exciting news is my short story, ‘The recipe’, which was selected for the Overland master-class in 2009, was recently longlisted for the FISH short story competition in Ireland. I’m really proud and happy about the longlisting and hope that I’ll find a publisher for the story soon. I’m also going to have a short prose poem published in the next issue of Short and Twisted, and soon the anthology os second-generation Greek-Australian poets will be published by Australian Scholarly publishing. The title they are going with is Southern Sun, Aegean Light: Poetry of Second-Generation Greek Australians. I like it. And also on a more academic note, I’ll be starting prac placement at Illura Press in two weeks. Very excited!
Till the next installment. I hope to see you at one of my gigs!
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