Mad Poets Archives

Mad Poets Workshop Winners: The Wollongong Writers Festival

Verity La November 18, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Poetry

Spinning By Kyra Thomsen I spin myself into a frenzy legs lurching in and out like a spider building a web unravelling my inner-silk exposing my underbelly. The tea is …

VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 4: Ben Frater

Verity La October 21, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Verity La Poetry Podcast

BEN FRATER: This month we’re celebrating the work of Ben Frater with our Clozapine Clinic Co-editors Tim Heffernan and Alise Blayney. To kick off, Tim shares his plans for the upcoming …

BEN FRATER AND THE MAD POETS OF THE GONG

Verity La October 12, 2016 Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project, Heightened Talk

By Tim Heffernan It is significant that the poetry of Benjamin Frater is reprised for the 2016 Wollongong Writers Festival and that he will be an integral part of the …

Spirit Maps: Cycles of Renewal (Juno Gemes & Robert Adamson)May 8, 2018
Juno Gemes: I searched for a printer in photogravure for over twenty years before finding master printer Lothar Ostenberg. The photogravure process, which sees photographs etched into copper and printed ... Read More
Hiding within the Diaspora with a Sharky Pen Name <br>(CB Mako)May 7, 2019
Edited by Ivy Alvarez When I first wrote fanfiction in 2013, then transitioned to nonfiction in 2016, I knew I would continue writing using a pen name. My grandfather had ... Read More
Change and Damage Beyond Belief: Judith Wright's The Coral BattlegroundJune 21, 2014
Review by Tristan Foster Let’s talk, briefly, about fights. Humans love a fight – fighting is among the first things we do: the fight for breath, for attention, the fight ... Read More