Adelaide’s online newspaper Adelaide Independent / InDaily ran this article of my poetry and Satura Prize win yesterday.

Yesterday I attended a fantastic workshop run by Singaporean poet Joshua Ip on Asian poetic forms at the SA Writers Centre. Josh came to Australia as part of a reading tour through the Griffith Review, the Brisbane Writers’ Festival and swung by Adelaide to deliver his one-off workshop.

Mike Hopkins has already done a brilliant job of describing the workshop so I won’t bother! (See it HERE.)

Thanks Joshua for enthusiastic insight and instruction in forms of poetry (many of them unfamiliar to me) and the opportunity to see and hear your unique work. (We swapped poetry books of course!) I hope to work with some of the forms and hopefully produce some publishable work over the next few months.

You can see Joshua’s website HERE.

It was a great honour for me last night to be awarded The Friendly Street Poets’ Satura Prize for best poem in the annual anthology. The 39^th annual reader titled Silver Singing Streams (ed. Kalicharan N Dey and Geoff Hastwell) contains poems of a pretty high standard – so I’m especially humbled that my poem a clarity of smog was chosen by this year’s judge Mike Ladd as the pick of the bunch. Congratulations to all the other poets who were shortlisted.

The Satura Award celebrates the late John Bray who was a tour de force for the first twenty years of Friendly Street.

Read the poem HERE.

Friendly Street Poets launched its 39th annual anthology “Silver Singing Streams” last night. Congratulations to editors Geoff Hastwell and Nigel Dey on their selection of the best of a year of high-standard poetry read at Friendly Street’s monthly meetings. Congratulations to all the poets who have work represented too – from experienced poets who’ve been with FS since the beginning to first-time published emerging writers. It was great seeing Zoela Lane’s original cover artwork and hearing so many of the poets reading their own work, Geoff’s rendition of the Dylan song which referenced the book’s title, and Nigel’s hilarious speech launching the collection.

First review of tropeland by Siobhan Hodge in Cordite Poetry Review:

http://cordite.org.au/reviews/shodge-walker/