poetry: Vacancy Sign

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Vacancy Sign

Posted by Maxine Beneba Clarke at 7:19 PM

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...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

Spoken Word 'Bourne

Maxine Beneba Clarke: Slam Up is written by Maxine Beneba Clarke, a West Indian-Australian writer & poetry slam champion. Her essays, fiction & short stories have been broadcast & published nationally, including in the Age, the Big Issue, Overland and Going Down Swinging. Her spoken word has been broadcast on 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 an illustrator for Spineless Wonders. Her illustrations have also appeared online at Overland Literary Journal, and Verity La. 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. Contact: clarke.maxine@gmail.com All photographs (c) Michael Reynolds 2008-09, unless otherwise specified.

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