Poetic city will come alive to verse
Jacqui Malins. Photo: Zach Polis. CANBERRA has always been a poetic city, but a new festival puts that into upper case with the new “Poetic City Festival”. The event is the brainchild of Jacqui Malins, familiar to readers as the director of Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry, who says the city will come alive to the sight and sounds of versifying in performances, installations and events around town in March and April. A highlight will be an outdoor poetry cinema running over two nights where short poetry videos will be screened and poets paid a fee of $50 for selected videos. Then in “H...
Source: citynews.com.au