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“The poems discussed every subject imaginable. Relationships, identity, nature, politics and activism, trauma and recovery were frequent topics. The poems about ugly babies, sex positions, honey, and watching Mary Poppins while high were unexpected but so rewarding…”
The Perth poetry community recently held the 2019 State Poetry Slam Final at the Rosemount Hotel. I was there to watch 8 of WA’s best poets compete against one another, with nothing but words as their weapons.
Perth Festival teases next month’s Writers Week with a program brimming with a sense of theatricality and compelling artists creating work about the migrant experience.
Sad Girls is a perth-based female-led artists collective, looking for the answers to life and making art in the process. Read about their launch here.
Pizarnik was employed in the department of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad de Buenos Aires where she published her first book of poetry, La tierra más ajena (1955). Pizarnik followed her debut work with two more volumes of poems, La última inocencia (1956) and Las aventuras perdidas (1958). Later she lived and worked in Paris before ending her life on September 25, 1972 at the age of 36.
