"LATEST NEWS"

Helen Hagemann's latest e-book Par écrit: poetry of the feminine

Open publication - Free publishing - More from Evangelyne: The Joyous Lake

2011 PUBLICATIONS
Country Gate, farmed out & Coda: house of pockets published in Eureka Street, October, Vol 21 #21
Left Over Wine to be re-published in the Melbourne Poets Union's Anthology: Tea, Wine & Coffee, due after December 2011
Perth Poinsettia published in Westerly Volume 56.1 due July 2011
Paperbark Owl published in Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, Volume 9, No 18

POETRY BOOK Evangelyne & other poems is available at New Edition, Readings St. Kilda, Fishpond, from the author, at the University of Melbourne Bookshop. Order here! Melb Uni Bookshop

EVANGELYNE REVIEWS
Read Roland Leach's launch speech/ review of Evangelyne & other poems, Andrew Burke's review, and Carol Jenkins review in indigo #5 REVIEWS

CREATIVE WRITING at the Fremantle Arts Centre
Tweak your creative writing skills at the Fremantle Arts Centre and join an encouraging learning environment. Poetry and Prose classes are run every alternative Fridays. Conducted in association with the OOTA - Out of the Asylum Writers Group - all workshops guide writers through a broad range of literary techniques and forms. Why not bring out the writer in you! Download our 2-page brochure Creative Writing at the Centre

I now have two blogs, one for the novel "anovelist" and the other for poetry & poetics "evangelyne". Check out my narrative writing, and of course my poetry, & current theories on "The Female Voice".

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Perth Poinsettia

 

               Euphorbia pulcherrima

I count seven florets in the centre

of each leaf which would not be visible

except for the open spread of red

that could catapult them like the season's

pop of Bon Bons. The poinsettias

are fireworks to the eye, an explosion

on New Year's eve, the first red twirl

of a Catherine wheel.    It's Christmas

in a backyard thirty years ago,

the red combustion of our lives

with none of the prescience of

oncoming dreams. No matter.

The future means change. The house

in the evening held only

by the wind's disturbance.

A bitterness inside, while outside

the poinsettia is a ruby star.

Each flower driven upward

in its small nature. Perhaps, this is all it can

do before winter's change, to sway there,

 a Frida Kahlo objet d'art,

vibrant and dazzling

in the moon's eclectic shine.

 

Services:

• Workshops: I currently teach poetry at the Grove Library, Peppermint Grove. We meet for 2 Terms during the year. Term 1 (each fortnight) commences on Saturday, 12th February, 2011 at 1.30-3.30pm. Check out more about this class, esp. the subject for the week @ http://www.writingatthecentre.blogspot.com
  
  Writing at the Centre - Fremantle Arts Centre
  I also teach Prose classes at the Fremantle Arts Centre in affiliation with OOTA (Out of the Asylum Writers Group). We meet each Friday fortnight at 10.00am to noon. For more info go to http://www.writingatthecentre.blogspot.com or join OOTA @ http://www.ootawriters.blogspot.com
  
  
• Poetry Readings: I'm available to give a poetry reading for your group. An event such as this includes a poetry reading which lasts about 25 minutes, and then 10 minutes for a question/answer session. I usually bring my latest book to sell, or members can order copies through New Edition at a later stage.
  
  
• Lectures: I can combine a reading with a talk about poetry, or simply give a talk about any aspect of poetry your group would like to explore.Subjects that I might cover are: Finding inspiration, where to look and why? Where do poems come from? Why all the fuss about prose poetry? What makes a good poem? What's going on in the contemporary poetry world? The business side of poetry i.e. getting your work out there, being published and noticed.

How to contact me-
Phone on (08) 9343 0072
or Email: Helen Hagemann 

or write for information to PO Box 331, WANNEROO, Western Australia 6946

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