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Posts tagged ‘white knight with beebox’
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Please join Alan Brough at a celebration at the State Library on Friday 20 March, 4 - 5pm when he announces the the top five books, as voted by Victorian readers in the State Library of Victoria’s Summer Read program 2008-9, and voter’s prizes.
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RSVP by Wednesday 17 March 2009
Telephone 8664 7555
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Poet Peter Steele is next Summer Read author blogging from 15 – 19 February.
Peter Steele is a Jesuit priest who lives in Melbourne, and a Professor Emeritus at the
University of Melbourne. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Chicago, New York and Washington DC. He has also published homilies, criticisms on modern poetry and the art of autobiography.
His Poetry book White Knight with Beebox is one of the books on the Summer Read shortlist.
White Knight with Beebox is an inspired collection of poems showcasing Peter’s delicate and precise touch in traditional poetic form, his striking emotional range and moving lyricism. With 82 pages worth of new poems, and a rich collection of his earlier work, this compilation outlines a lifetime of passionate thinking.
As part of the free Summer Read events across Victoria, Peter will be appearing at:
Watsonia Library, Ibbotson Street Watsonia on Tuesday 17 February 2009, 6.30 – 8.00 pm
This event is co-hosted with The Australian Poetry Centre and also features the
Launch of Watsonia Bookgrove
For more information phone Watsonia Library 9435 2397 or book online at http://summerread25.eventbrite.com
St Kilda Library, 50 Carlisle Street St Kilda on Thursday 19 February 2009, 6.30 – 8.00 pm
This event is co-hosted with The Australian Poetry Centre
For more information phone St Kilda Library 9209 6655 or book online at http://summerread29.eventbrite.com
What Peter says about summer reading
“About 45 years ago I found myself marooned in Melbourne for a good deal of one summer. Taking a deep and greedy breath, I made my way through Proust’s great work in the English translation which was my only access. I followed this up with most of Kafka and with a stiff dose of Thomas Mann. I was probably too grave a young man for my own good, and heaven knows how much of this banquet of prose may have stayed with me. But at least the exercise must have been good for me: almost the whole affair was conducted walking up and down on grassy slopes in Kew.”
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