Poetry – Page 2 – LARSEN

Poetry lesson plans

Poetry is EVERYWHERE and EVERYONE can read, write and enjoy it.

To coincide with the launch of Public. Open. Space., I released four short videos for teachers, librarians and workshop leaders on how to incorporate poetry and technology activities into your workshops and lesson plans.

ArtsHub reviews Public.Open.Space.

Huge thanks to Esther Anatolitis, whose speech from this week’s Public. Open. Space. launch in Naarm/Melbourne has now been published by ArtsHub.

Public. Open. Space. on The Garret podcast

“I think it’s important for writers to bump up against our level of comfort and to question the assumptions and the privilege that we carry with us. That’s not always a comfortable process.”

I had a lovely chat with Astrid from The Garret pocast about poetry, arts funding and The Relationship is the Project following the launch of Public. Open. Space. in June.

Don’t give up your day job: why poetry has bad PR (and why you read more of it than you think)

When I signed my publishing contract with Fremantle Press last year, my partner immediately started joking about resigning from work – to wave celebratory pompoms at my book events and writers’ fests, soothe my perpetually poetically-furrowed brow, and make sure my favourite brand of poetry-inspiring beverage is always close to hand.

Public. Open. Space. launches

Fremantle Press sent my debut poetry collection, Public. Open. Space. out into the world (eep!) in July 2023.

Public. Open. Space. pre-orders now open

With ONE MONTH TO GO until Fremantle Press releases my debut poetry collection into the world, you can now pre-order your copy of Public. Open. Space.

Introducing Public. Open. Space.

My debut poetry collection (Public. Open. Space, Fremantle Press, 2023) is just a few months away from being launched into the world. Here’s a sneak peak about what to expect…

Reading and writing in 2022

I blew my personal reading record out of the water last year, topping out at 212 books in 2022 – far exceeding the 147 I read in 2021 (mostly thanks to 3+ months of COVID recovery and a lot of sleepless nights).

Public. Open. Space. is ‘one to watch’

2023 will be ‘the year of the home-grown book,’ Jane Sullivan writes in The Age / Sydney Morning Herald. ‘The pandemic is fading as a popular topic, but we’re still preoccupied with climate change, racism and sexism. It’s notable how many books, particularly life stories, are written by women and non-binary people.’

Surprised and delighted to find my own collection of poetry, Public.Open.Space., included on her list of standout titles you’re going to read in 2023.

Field Notes: From Bundanon

“I came to Bundanon starving and dying of thirst, and it left me quenched and full.”

That would have been a familiar metaphor. The truth seems somehow smaller, though the arc remains the same.