Send a poem to Australia for the Shoalhaven Poetry Postcard Competition
Saturday February 5, 2005
From Chris Mansell, who was our Australian Museletter correspondent:
Shoalhaven Poetry Festival is once again going to have a postcard exhibition -- but this time we are making it a competition with a prize of $250 and with a small entry fee.
What is a poetry postcard? An original postcard that you have made, with this address on one side: Poetry Postcard Competition, Shoalhaven Poetry Festival, PO Box 94, Berry NSW 2535, Australia, along with your name and return address and the title of card if it has one. (This side will not be displayed but we will put your name in the catalogue.) On the other side: poem + visual (for display).
Dimensions: Anything you like but were recommending: 23 cm x 12 cm and on stiffish board. In the past, however, postcards have ranged in size from small postcard size to larger than A4 and have been in various materials: paper, board, MDF (with sliding panel and jig saw cut out), ceramic, wood, canvas, and/or with foreign objects attached (metal stars, buttons, feathers, beads, newspaper, photos, glitter, netting, other fabric - you name it). At least one was woven.
The previous two exhibitions were exhibited at the festival but also were taken elsewhere to be shown and are now off at the National Library being valued (and were hoping that this will contribute to the meagre finances of the festival).
Theme: Last time the nominal theme was Lurve but people were appropriately disobedient if they felt like it and we rather liked that. This year it is: Impossible!
Bear in mind that if the organisers decide the postcard is obscene, for whatever reason, they might decline to hang it (but it will be part of the collection). If the organisers decide it is ludicrous, they will certainly hang it.
When: The festival is on 9, 10, 11 December 2005 and there is a lot to organise including writing up the catalogue (aka list) of postcards and hanging them. So, give us a break, send them by 30 November 2005. You can send them earlier if you like.
Who can enter? Anyone who wants to.
How much to enter? $5 per postcard to Shoalhaven Poetry Festival.
How much do I get if I win? $250 + glory.
Who judges the winner? Its a peoples choice award so those at the festival will be allowed one vote and the winner will be announced at the last event on Sunday.
Do I get the postcard back? No, youre donating it to the festival so that they can raise money to help pay for the next festival.
Is there an entry form? Yes. This is it. Sign it and date it and send it with your postcard to the address above. Copy and reproduce this form if you want to.
Acceptance of conditions:
I understand and agree to all the conditions outlined above, and that I'm doing a good turn to the festival by giving them my postcard and also that I might win $250 if it is thought by the assembled multitudes at the Shoalhaven Poetry Festival to be the best, whatever they might decide that means.
Name:
Signature
Date:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Shoalhaven Poetry Festival is once again going to have a postcard exhibition -- but this time we are making it a competition with a prize of $250 and with a small entry fee.
What is a poetry postcard? An original postcard that you have made, with this address on one side: Poetry Postcard Competition, Shoalhaven Poetry Festival, PO Box 94, Berry NSW 2535, Australia, along with your name and return address and the title of card if it has one. (This side will not be displayed but we will put your name in the catalogue.) On the other side: poem + visual (for display).
Dimensions: Anything you like but were recommending: 23 cm x 12 cm and on stiffish board. In the past, however, postcards have ranged in size from small postcard size to larger than A4 and have been in various materials: paper, board, MDF (with sliding panel and jig saw cut out), ceramic, wood, canvas, and/or with foreign objects attached (metal stars, buttons, feathers, beads, newspaper, photos, glitter, netting, other fabric - you name it). At least one was woven.
The previous two exhibitions were exhibited at the festival but also were taken elsewhere to be shown and are now off at the National Library being valued (and were hoping that this will contribute to the meagre finances of the festival).
Theme: Last time the nominal theme was Lurve but people were appropriately disobedient if they felt like it and we rather liked that. This year it is: Impossible!
Bear in mind that if the organisers decide the postcard is obscene, for whatever reason, they might decline to hang it (but it will be part of the collection). If the organisers decide it is ludicrous, they will certainly hang it.
When: The festival is on 9, 10, 11 December 2005 and there is a lot to organise including writing up the catalogue (aka list) of postcards and hanging them. So, give us a break, send them by 30 November 2005. You can send them earlier if you like.
Who can enter? Anyone who wants to.
How much to enter? $5 per postcard to Shoalhaven Poetry Festival.
How much do I get if I win? $250 + glory.
Who judges the winner? Its a peoples choice award so those at the festival will be allowed one vote and the winner will be announced at the last event on Sunday.
Do I get the postcard back? No, youre donating it to the festival so that they can raise money to help pay for the next festival.
Is there an entry form? Yes. This is it. Sign it and date it and send it with your postcard to the address above. Copy and reproduce this form if you want to.
Acceptance of conditions:
I understand and agree to all the conditions outlined above, and that I'm doing a good turn to the festival by giving them my postcard and also that I might win $250 if it is thought by the assembled multitudes at the Shoalhaven Poetry Festival to be the best, whatever they might decide that means.
Name:
Signature
Date:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Comments
poems Mr.mahmoud ghoochani for
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Nobody aware of his future
I want to go .
May be I dont come back again . and maybe come back .
Nobody aware of his future .
I want to write again .
Even my pen is broken and my heart be annihilated
But I am in a mood to do this .
I want to look at the reality rightly and tell them to other .
I want to be with you again
Nobody aware of his future
Maybe I come back soon
Nobody aware of his future , but I will come and speak to you about the fate of the storms .
I dont want flower but I like the love very much .
Author : Mahmoud Ghoochani
Iran Mashhad
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The simple words of the moments
The last passenger who takes the loneliness road , sees the night in which the tree of love left him a simple word . a shelterless stillness , a lonely evening , the mirage of horizon , scarcity of lyrics , to stay and leave , coming and going .
Are the black clouds upon the simple word of the moments .
Author : Mahmoud Ghoochani
Iran Mashhad
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Name : Mahmoud
Surname : Ghoochani
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