Details
Free, no booking required
Federation Court
National Gallery of Victoria, Saint Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Dates
Sat 16 May 3.30 – 4.15pm
This panel event marks the release of three new no more poetry titles.
Across confessional writing, lyric abstraction, fragmentation and survival, the program is structured as a sequence of presentations, readings and discussion.
Each author will introduce their publication via a short presentation, followed by a live reading moderated by Daniel Ward and Joshua Edward. A brief discussion will follow, with an opportunity for visitor questions.
About the publications
The three publications are individual and self-standing, brought together as a singular offering that reflects the breadth of nmp’s publishing rationale: real/absurd, wry/artful, opaque/transparent.
nmp.31 Sex, Love by Stacey Collee
Sex, Love compiles anecdotes, encounters and after-images into a sequence of poems where sex, romance, boredom and damage arrive in the same register.
Collee writes with a disarming plainness that refuses resolution, holding confession at the point where it becomes social fact, repetition and scene.
nmp.32 Of by Queenie Thirlwell Carling
Of is a series of poems under the guise of something else.
Originally conceived as a set of ditties, each is ‘opportuned’, each poetic voice turned towards the listener, offering to carry them in the ‘rightness’ of a tempo.
Like the ditty, which inhabits the space between waking and dreaming, Of is both a knowable immersion in odyssean duration and an unknowable transmission. The poems sit between singer and listener, mind and world, holding a tension between togetherness and difference. They form a collection of voices that speak in split; one recognises itself while the other does not.
nmp.33 Swarms of Angels by Tooms Office
Swarms of Angels moves by fragment, gag, threat and recurrence, building a poetics of survival from tonal whiplash and ruined speech.
Brutal, funny and strangely buoyant, the work treats endurance not as triumph but as a condition: the world persists, and so do we.
Participants
Stacey Collee
Stacey Collee is a visual artist based in Melbourne/Naarm.
She works across a range of mediums, namely painting and performance, to explore narratives of love and failure.
Queenie Thirlwell Carling
Queenie Thirlwell Carling is a poet and philosopher whose work is concerned with the domain between the Word and the flesh.
Her adoption is one of a psychoanalytic lineage, through which her writing figures the hole in the whole of language.
Tooms Office
Ben Ilobuchi is a Melbourne/Naarm-based creative and published writer. Tooms Office is a design studio led by Brindley Oakes and Selena Lee-Marsh.
no more poetry
no more poetry (nmp) is the publishing project of Joshua Edward and daniel ward.
Since 2020, nmp has edited, published and publicly launched more than thirty debut poetry or art collections by local and international emerging authors, as well as more than fifteen pieces of printed ephemera featuring over 350 authors.
nmp curates with a focus on lesbian, gay and transgender literature. They release four poetry or art collections every two months and twelve journals every year.
nmp’s publications are stocked internationally.