Friends of North Bruny represents the community on North Bruny Island, lutruwita-Tasmania (everything north of the Neck). During 2018 Bright South helped them with a new website. Find out more . . .
Friends of North Bruny Website
Review: Kristen Lang’s SkinNotes
Kirsten Lang’s poems thoughtful and profound explorations of the spaces between human and nonhuman, the self and the world. Her writing speaks of the ‘vibrant matter’ of the world and give you a sense of being enmeshed in a glittering web that connects you to everything around you.
Review: Tanya Thaweeskulchai’s A Salivating, Monstrous Plant
This is an extraordinary extended prose-poem that will surely appeal to lovers of triffids and weird and visceral adventures.
Anne Morgan’s Website Makeover
Anne Morgan is an amazing poet! She’s also a super active member of lutruwita-Tasmania’s writing community, coordinating the Facebook page ‘Celebrate Tasmanian Books and Writing’, and you can often catch her reading her work about the state. If you get the chance to hear her, go! Anne also knows just the way to catch the …
Bright South publishes Pete Hay’s Girl Reading Lorca
Bright South is proud to be the publisher of Pete Hay’s poetry chapbook, Girl Reading Lorca. From a poet normally regarded as “fiercely Tasmanian”, this collection is a startling departure from Pete, but no less observant, subtle or incisive than his better known work. The centrepiece of Girl Reading Lorca is a celebration of the …
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An Evening in Andalusia
Pete Hay and Paul Gerard are kicking off an exciting collaborative tour on the 3rd of August at the Peacock Theatre. An Evening in Andalusia celebrates the great Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca. Lorca was executed in 1936 in the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War. His poetry was banned for 20 years after his …
Pete Hay Poet Website
Of one of lutruwita-Tasmania’s greatest poets, of Pete Hay, Rachel Edwards wrote: “no one else takes the temperature of this island like Hay, and no one else uses Tasmania as such an effective prism through which to consider human nature” (The Australian). Not only is Pete a poet though, he is also a respected scholar and activist. Find out more . . .