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2010 Poetry Reading – La Mama Poetica

Monday 15 November,2010, at 8pm
in Melbourne, Australia
La Mama Poetica at the Carlton Courthouse,
349 Drummond Street, Carlton.
“Home is a Strange Place”
Featured readers: Peter Davis, Sandy Fitts, Alana Kelsall, Geoff Lemon, Ouyang Yu.

2010 Poetry Reading – Sandy Fitts

Sunday 26 September,2010, at 3pm
‘Castlemaine Poetry Readings’ Guildford Hotel, Victoria, Australia www.guildfordfamilyhotel.com.au
Castlemaine Poetry Readings is celebrating its fifth year of bringing fine poetry to the region. All welcome.
Guest poets: Sandy Fitts & Katherine Gallagher.

2010 Reprint of View from the Lucky Hotel

The first print run of View from the Lucky Hotel has sold out, and it has now been reprinted by publishers Five Islands Press. Available by ordering directly from the publisher’s website www.fiveislandspress.com or by ordering through your local bookshop. The distributor is Australian Book Group.
If you have any difficulties in locating a copy, send a note through the contacts page of this website.

Reviews of View from the Lucky Hotel

Reviews in Australian Studies
Diane Fahey in Reviews in Australian Studies 2008
Australian Book Review
Lyn McCredden in the Australian Book Review Dec 08/ Jan 09
Famous Reporter
Brendan Ryan in Famous Reporter #38, December 08
Five Bells
Tim Metcalf in Five Bells Vol. 15 No.4 & Vol 16 No.1, 2008/2009

To read these reviews and more, go to >>The Book

Westerly See also, ‘At the Crossroads: Australian Poetry 2008-2009’, an article by Julian Croft in Westerly Vol 54:1 www.westerlycentre.uwa.edu.au/magazine

National Award

for View from the Lucky Hotel

The Fellowship of Australian Writers has announced that View from the Lucky Hotel is a winner of the FAW Anne Elder Award, for the “best first collection of poetry published in Australia in 2008”. VftLH Press Release; Five Islands Press 090502

Launch of anthology of Australian poetry, Melbourne, September 2009

Sandy Fitts was among the poets reading her poetry at the celebratory launch of Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry 1986-2008, edited by Jennifer Harrison & Kate Waterhouse (Puncher & Wattmann 2009). About Jennifer Harrison
About Puncher & Wattman, publishers of the anthology

Poetry Reading in Melbourne, May 2009

Sandy Fitts & Tric O'Heare

‘Meet the Poets’
A Yarra Libraries Event
18 May 2009 North Fitzroy Library
To read more, go to >> Meet the Poets

Art into Poetry Now

a workshop with Sandy Fitts, April 2009

Advanced Poetry Workshop at Castlemaine Art Gallery
Castlemaine State Festival, Australia, April 2009
To read more, go to >> 'Art into Poetry Now' (workshop 09)

Poetry Reading in London, January 2009

Katherine Gallagher & Sandy Fitts

Alexandra Park Library, 27 January 2009
www.katherine-gallagher.com

Launch of View from the Lucky Hotel

View from the Lucky Hotel was launched in Melbourne in June 2008 by Philip Salom, acclaimed poet and novelist.
To read about the book launch, go to >> Book Launch 2008 To read more about Philip Salom, go to http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/philip-salom.html
To read more about the publishers go to www.fiveislandspress.com