UWAP publishing officer Charlotte Guest discusses Perth: A Guide for the Curious with The West Australian’s Literary Editor, Will Yeoman. Watch the video here.
The West Book Club: The Life & Death of Sophie Stark & The Magus
PWF program manager Katherine Dorrington discusses Anna North’s The Life and Death of Sophie Stark and John Fowles’s The Magus with the West Australian’s Literary Editor, Will Yeoman. Watch the video here.
John Kinsella and the art of poetry
“Poetry is a medium of change and alternative ways of seeing. I can never waken to a day without an awareness that damage is being done somewhere and that I have a responsibility to articulate responses to that damage.” Read the full story here.
Review: 20th Biennale of Sydney
Sydney Opera House. Picture: Will Yeoman
To explore the 20th Biennale of Sydney at any level — as connoisseur, as sight-seer, as flaneur — is to experience that dreamlike margin between reality and surreality in all its beauty and terror through the agency of art and some of the city’s most atmospheric sites. This year Artistic Director Stephanie Rosenthal has taken as her theme “The future’s already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”. Watch the video and read the story here.
The West Book Club: Belowsky performs Stay Greasy Baby!
Stevie Belowsky. Spoken Word Artist. Pop Poet. Playwright. Stand-up comedian. And now, with the publication of the extraordinary Stay Greasy Baby, memoirist. It’s no wonder Creation Records’ Alan McGee describes him as “a force of nature”. See the video and read the story here.
Interview: Wendy Whiteley & The Secret Garden
Wendy Whiteley in her Lavender Bay home. Picture: Jason Busch
Brett and Wendy Whiteley. They were Australia’s first superstar artistic couple, returning to Sydney in a blaze of glory after 10 years in Europe and Swinging Sixties London and New York, where they counted Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix among their friends. Back home, Brett would spend the next 20 years turning out masterpiece after masterpiece from the Whiteleys’ Lavender Bay home. Then it all started to fall apart… read the full story at The West Australian here
Book Review: Happiness (Martin Harrison)
“The Anglo-Australian poet Martin Harrison died in 2014 at the age of 65. He left us many compasses with which to navigate this dark world and wide, but two may suffice for this, his posthumous poetry collection, Happiness.” Read the full review at The West Australian here
