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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Sanity

Posted by Maxine Beneba Clarke at 1:43 PM

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2 comments:

utopianfragmentsOctober 14, 2011 at 12:15 AM
being far from it can mad you to sometimes..
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MagyarOctober 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM
Sanity?
__I've lost mine... deleated.
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Maxine Beneba Clarke

UPCOMING APPEARANCES
May 30 - Emerging Writers Festival (Melbourne)
June 1 - Williamstown Literary Festival (Williamstown)
June 22 - Keep Left Poetry (Coburg)
August TBA - Melbourne Writers Festival (Melbourne)

August TBA - StripFest (St Kilda)
November 10 - West Words (Footscray)
December 5 - Hares and Hyenas (Fitzroy)

...a small tidal wave crashed into the face of the current Australian literary landscape... she could make you laugh, challenge you, inspire you. You’re guaranteed to be moved, something inside will shift in some small way. And isn’t that what we all want to achieve as writers?
-Overland Literary Journal Online

...The translation of rhythms from music into print; that’s the achievement, impressive, as the many who write poetry will know...You’ll find its movement gets into your own, into your foot against the chair leg, your fingers on the keypad...
-Greg Westenberg, Crikey

The song-like Immigration Museum, by Maxine Clarke, has musical notes punctuating the spoken word and is a sharp riposte to the "official" account of Australia's immigration history...
- Tim Richards, The Age

Clarke is one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade...
-Stephen Lawrence, Overland

The Author

Maxine Beneba Clarke: Slam Up is written by Maxine Beneba Clarke, a Caribbean-Australian writer & poetry slam champion. Her essays, fiction & short stories have been broadcast & published nationally, including in the Age, the Big Issue, Overland, Harvest, Page Seventeen, Voiceworks, Cordite Poetry Review, Unusual Work and Going Down Swinging. Her spoken word has been broadcast internationally, including on Indiefeed, 3CR radio's Spoken Word and Hip Sista Hop and on RRR radio's Aural Text and Max Headroom. Maxine’s second poetry collection Gil Scott Heron is on Parole was published by Picaro Press in 2010. She has been a cover designer for Overland literary magazine and Cordite Poetry Review, and an illustrator for Spineless Wonders. Her concrete poetry illustrations have also appeared in Unusual Work, Verity La, and Overland Literary Journal online. Maxine is the poetry editor of Social Alternatives academic journal and the spoken word editor of Audio Overland. All material on this blog is copyright of the author and artist and must not be reprinted or distributed without written permission from the author.

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Maxine Beneba Clarke is represented by Curtis Brown Australia.
or E: maxinebclarke@hotmail.com.

Slam Up Overloaded

From Friday 9 September to Saturday 17 September 2011, Reviewers for Melbourne's Overload Poetry Festival were blog-squatting at Slam Up. You can read highlights of the festival coverage here, here and here or scroll back through the September 2011 archives to see the full festival coverage.

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Some of My Writing Online

The Unbearable Whiteness of Beauty - Overland
Obama's Presidency & Australians - Crikey
Never Mind The Beats - The Age
Shu Yi - Peril Magazine
Plantation Rumours - Cordite Poetry Review
Carrying the World - Indiefeed
Raising the Dead (interviewed at Verity La)
In conversation (interviewed at Black Rider Press)
Show Us Where You're Publishing - Emerging Writers' Festival

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