2012 is shaping up to be a great year for new poetry books in Brisbane and SpeedPoets is the place where many of them are making their way into the world! This Saturday at SpeedPoets, we are thrilled to launch Alan Jefferies new bilingual collection Seem.
Alan Jefferies was born in Brisbane and grew up in Cleveland. He lived in Sydney and Coalcliff throughout much of the 1980′s and 90′s and completed degrees in Communication and Writing.
In 1998 he moved to Hong Kong where he co-founded OutLoud, Hong Kong’s longest running spoken-word event. He has published five books of poetry. His latest book Seem, is a bilingual edition ( Chinese translation by Iris Fan Xing), published by ASM in Macao, China.
Here’s a poem from the collection and a link to a review:
Reading
as the poet finished reading
her penultimate poem
the guy in the front row
leant forward &
thud
hit his head
with cupped hand
like he didn’t want that particular
idea to take root in there
then pop
he was back, upright
(like a buoy rights itself, by itself)
after being knocked askance
by the silky wake of a passing ocean liner.
*****
Seem launches this Saturday June 2 at SpeedPoets alongside a premiere reading by Julie Beveridge from her forthcoming book, home{sic}.
Date: Saturday June 2
Location: Brew (Lower Burnett Lane, Brisbane City)
Time: 2pm – 5:30pm
Entry: Gold Coin Donation
