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Statelines
6.30pm NO DATE PROVIDED
Join us in the Wagga City Library for a vibrant performance of poetry by Angela Stretch, Petra White and Derek Motion. As 2007's Statelines' poets, Angela and Petra are touring regional NSW. This tour is organized by the Poet's Union who asked that this year a local poet be nominated to read with the traveling ones. Derek Motion, a poet and PhD candidate at CSU will be our Wagga representative.
The Poets' Biographies
Angela Stretch is a poet and founder of Wordjammin', an organization devoted to staging poetry, spoken word and comedy: it is also a record label, and was, for four years, a radio programme (2MCE and 2SER). Wordjammin' has presented events at Overload, at National Poetry Week (Sydney) and at Brisbane Writers' Festival. Angela is the organizer of the Crisis Line CD Project Hope, incorporating jazz and poetry. She is currently the presenter of Thursday Overdrive on 2SER.
Petra White was born in 1975 in Adelaide, and grew up there, moving to Melbourne in 1998. A graduate in German and English literature from the University of Melbourne, she has held jobs in publishing, college tutoring, and as a policy officer. She received a Literature Board New Work Grant in 2005 to complete her first collection of poetry, The IncomingTide (John Leonard Press 2007), which has recently been short listed for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. In 2006, she was a guest at the 2006 Mildura
Writers Festival.
Derek Motion from Wagga Wagga is currently writing a PhD on Australian poetry. Derek has published poetry and articles in fourW's 2005 and 2006 anthologies and in the Cordite Poetry Review. In 2006 he was awarded a residency by vibewire.net, and Derek is a dedicated blogger and online poet. He is currently editing fourW eighteen for Wagga Wagga Writers Writers.