My profile of poet Robert Gray appears in The Sun-Herald (Extra) on Sunday 21 February.
Robert, whose poetry taught me how to write, talked very elegantly when we met a couple of weeks back, about the nature and the future of poetry, so my piece is as much about poetry as about him.
I’m sharing the stage with Robert a couple of times at the Perth Writers’ Festival a 26 February to 2 March: we’re talking landscape and we’re reading poetry. I’ve also finally gotten around to reading his terrific memoir, The Land I Came Through…
I have a couple of poems, “Red Moon Eclogues” and “Wingecarribee Eclogues”, in the very cool online journal, Perilous Adventures: http://www.perilousadventures.net
Have a look, while you’re there, at what Inga and Nike are doing at their writing retreat, Olvar Wood, where I’m running a nature writing and a poetry workshop later this year.
Just a reminder that the first cowshed class for 2010 starts Saturday, 13 March and runs every other Saturday till 22 May. (Search this site for more detail.)
There’ll be a second series, starting 17 July.
And I’ll be running some Saturday and weekend workshops and masterclasses. (Search the site for more details.)
Inquire or register on the home page.
The Blue Plateau, published by Milkweed in October 2009, scored a lovely review in Orion in November:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/review/5116/
Characterising my prose as part Mary Austin, part Gretel Erlich, the reviewer Phil Condon suggests:
Tredinnick’s vision and voice become the forces of wind and water. His words lap and flood, howl and whisper, addressing and giving voice to trees, rocks, and rivers, and leaving behind the haunt and trace of several multigenerational families of settlers and ranchers: their stories, strengths, tragedies, and losses.
Okay, so the big news: my first volume of poetry will come into the world this year (2010).
Puncher & Wattmann, David Musgrave’s smart little poetry press, which has been punching well above its weight from the start, will bring out a volume of my poems in October (or thereabouts) 2010. No title yet. There’ll be a second volume fairly close on its heals (2011).
Still plenty of hard work shaping the volume(s), but that’s the kind of work a poet longs for.
