Poetry and piano explore the elements
SARAH BYRNE reviews father-and-daughter Arnan and Moran Wiesel combining piano and poetry in Elemental, a concert exploring the forces of the natural world.
Poetry
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Judith Clingan's song cycle, The Prophet - as part of the second half of Wayfarers Australia's concert Musica Vitae - which, based on Kahlil Gibran's famous 1923 work, is "not one of Clingan’s finer works".
Poet Judith Nangala Crispin talks to HELEN MUSA about her just-published first illustrated verse novel, The Dingo’s Noctuary, about a lady motorcyclist and her little white mongrel dingo Moon's journey of discovery into the Tanami Desert.
"The 2025 Step into the Limelight schools arts showcase invites students to step into new creative territory, celebrating 'imagination, innovation and the thrill of exploring what lies beyond the familiar'," writes HELEN MUSA.
Poetry
McDermott’s out to prove that poetry is dead
In a change of pace, entertainer Paul McDermott, of Doug Anthony All Stars and Good News Week fame, is bringing his show Poems to Smith’s Alternative, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Poetry
Busy Barrina launches her debut poetry book
Barrina South has chosen a word from the language of her Barkindji ancestry in far western NSW — Makarra, meaning rain — for the title of her first poetry anthology, to be launched this weekend in Queanbeyan, where she lives.
Poetry
Student Lucinda wins major poetry award
An Erindale College student has won the senior secondary prize in the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards, reports HELEN MUSA.
The multi-award-winning Australian author, poet and rapper Omar Musa and the internationally renowned American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts Musa are bringing a dramatic seafaring monologue to the stage in Queanbeyan.
ACCLAIMED poet, author and performer Omar Musa will bring "alive" new poems, taking them from the page on to the stage for the first time on Thursday, February 24, at The Street Theatre.
Canberra has always been a poetic city, but a new festival puts that into upper case with the new “Poetic City Festival”.
