Artist’s Statement This video work was inspired by old photographs I discovered of my nana and grandad when they were young. I was drawn to the photograph of my nana …
Prize Winning Poems from our Black Cockatoo Editors Brenda Saunders & Yvette Henry Holt
Verity La are proud of the achievements of all our fantastic editors. Recently, poems from two of our Black Cockatoo editors, Brenda Saunders and Yvette Henry Holt, placed as Winner & Highly …
The Spirit of Nature 2018 Manly Art Gallery Poetry Alive Reading
What happens when poetry and art mix? Magic, that’s what! On 4 November 2018, twenty poets gathered to read their ekphrastic poems to a full and appreciative house at the …
And Now, Tenderness (David Adès)
And now, tenderness, should it come, should it ever come again, unsolicited, from an unexpected quarter, should it be felt and recognised, will break over me like a wave, dissolving …
Blemished (Andy Jackson)
Blemished from the Rabbinic scriptures and a Buzzfeed article A hunched back could be a misshapen eyebrow. Withered could also be dwarf. Some of our problems are to do with …
Jandamarra (Brenda Saunders)
High walls of sound ring the gorge once more children whisper sacred notes in language sing to heal their wounded land, call up the Unggud Junba. A Great Snake returns …
Make Me (Janet Marie Rogers)
Artist’s Statement ‘Make Me’ is an erotic poem with a developed performance which borrows from Indigenous ceremony and brings in sensuous elements that exemplify the grounded and tactile nature …
Who Is He (And What Is He To You?) (Jesse Rice-Evans)
after Grey’s Anatomy S13E16 If you’re having second thoughts, remember that it happens to all of us: knowing that sitting in windowless rooms becomes normal; the smeared latinate language that …
2018 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS
Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its fourth year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers, Philip Bacon. All the paintings used in the competition …
Painting (Joe Dolce)
She has spread canvas across the long side of the shed, and sits on a low stool, washing blue over white weave. She likes plein air, the humid day cut …