WHITMORE PRESS MANUSCRIPT PRIZE 2012

Entries are now invited for the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize 2012. The prize, for publication of a fine, limited edition poetry chapbook of work by the winning entrant, is open to all Australian poets – new, emerging and established.

Previous winners of the manuscript prize are Jamie King-Holden (2010), and B.R. Dionysius and Jo Langdon (2011). Jo Langdon's collection Snowline will be launched in May 2012, and Brett Dionysius's Bowra in August 2012.

Deadline is 1 August. Early submissions are encouraged.

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RECENTLY RELEASED

Cameron Lowe situates his poetry within the liminal spaces of the Australian suburbs. The imagery in these poems is at once engagingly familiar and enticingly rich and strange.

Following publication of a series of signed, limited edition chapbooks, Porch Music is the first full-length poetry collection published by Whitmore Press.

Read the speech by David McCooey launching Porch Music at Geelong Gallery, 5th December 2010.

'Reading a Cameron Lowe poem is a transporting experience – I am taken by the unaffected rapture, Lowe’s slow, sly gaze … His is a voice I look out for.'

– Bronwyn Lea

'... a subtle and rewarding minimalism that is no easy thing to achieve. The poems are imagistic but continually think on their feet ... These are some of the most quietly beautiful poems being written in Australia.'

- Philip Salom

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ALSO AVAILABLE
Limited copies of Graphic by David McCooey, Four Lines East by Barry Hill, and The Pallbearer's Garden by A. Frances Johnson.

SPECIAL OFFER
Order any three books (from Langdon, King-Holden, Lowe, McCooey, Hill, or Johnson) for just $50, any four books for $65, any five for $80, or all six for just $95. Offer includes free postage anywhere in Australia. ORDER HERE

FORTHCOMING IN 2012
Bowra by B. R. Dionysius, co-winner of the 2011 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize; Available Light by Graeme Kinross-Smith; and a limited edition chapbook by Luke Beesley.

LAUNCH

Snowline by Jo Langdon

From the co-winner of the 2011 Whitmore Press Manuscrippt Prize, Snowline is a limited edition chapbook (31 pp.) of 150 copies, superbly printed on watermarked paper, with every copy signed and numbered by the author.

'… these short, spare, finely wrought poems work within a complex imaginative structure. They build again in the mind that strange, closed, free place: the house of childhood.'

– Lisa Gorton

'With wit and shimmering precision Jo Langdon's poems connect the surreal, imagined world to what is felt. Her music is spare, wounding, hypnotic.'

– Michelle Cahill

LAUNCHED BY POET, WRITER AND ACADEMIC
MARIA TAKOLANDER

Café Go
37 Bellarine Street, Geelong
Saturday 19th May 2012, 4pm

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NEW RELEASE

Chemistry by Jamie King-Holden

'Suburbia, family and friends, childhood memories, an education – all of these things are transformed here by Jamie King-Holden's extraordinary poetic talent.'

– David McCooey

'Jamie King-Holden is a magisterial painter of the everyday. Read her beautifully assured work and suburban streets transform into weird but familiar emotional science.'

– A. Frances Johnson

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'Perhaps the most handsome books in the catchment are the signed and limited-edition chapbooks produced by Whitmore Press.'

– Bronwyn Lea, Westerly