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Here's Stephen Edgar reading 'Mango Chutney' from *Ghosts of Paradise*. Join us at 6pm Wed 29th Nov as Sarah Day launches the book at Gleebooks in its temporary home in the old Glebe Post Office.
RSVP here:
https://t.co/3kLw3mbr0M
And buy your copy here:
https://t.co/GubkFKcqPm

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A service to mourn the passing of Ron Pretty will be held today at 11am in Dapto. Like many poetry lovers all around Australia we will attend by livestream. Link on PSP Facebook page.

Join us in toasting a remarkable life lived in poetry.

Linsay & John Knight, Publishers

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Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) evening as Sarah Holland-Batt talks to Sarah Day about her new poetry collection *Slack Tide* at the Royal Oak Hotel in Balmain. @the_shb @RoaringStories @AusPoetry

https://t.co/3o1o1dkHW5

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Join us for the Sydney launch of Sarah Day’s fine new poetry collection *Slack Tide* at the Royal Oak Hotel in Balmain at 7.30pm next Tuesday 11th April - in conversation with Sarah Holland-Batt @the_shb sponsored by @RoaringStories bookshop.

https://t.co/3o1o1dkHW5

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Join us for the Sydney launch of Sarah Day’s fine new poetry collection *Slack Tide* at the Royal Oak Hotel in Balmain at 7.30pm next Tuesday 11th April - in conversation with Sarah Holland-Batt @the_shb sponsored by @RoaringStories bookshop.

https://t.co/3o1o1dkHW5

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Jean Kent’s new collection *The Shadow Box* is now available to buy at the Pitt Street Poetry on-line emporium. https://t.co/CyApAeDvFQ

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@WyndhamSusan Watching at home with Linsay.
So proud to be nominated for the fifth time.

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#pmlitawards

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The #PMLitAwards Poetry prize goes to… Andy Jackson for Human Looking. Congratulations to Andy & @giramondobooks, & to every incredibly talented poet on the shortlist @ausgovarts #books

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@noblewordscomms @GiramondoBooks @AusGovArts Congratulations, Andy, from all at Pitt Street Poetry!
Fine poet, great choice.

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And it’s the poetry category! Good luck to all, especially our old friend Pitt Street Poet John Foulcher! #PMLitAwards

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OK the PMLA live stream is back up!

https://t.co/1KvoAbwzBi

#PMLitAwards

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@WyndhamSusan Susan, the streaming has just started back up. Looks like they had to evacuate the hall due to a fire alarm. Cheers, John

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Due to a fire alarm, we have had to temporarily pause the #PMLitAwards, the live stream will begin again shortly.

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A comedy of errors unfolding in sunny downtown Launceston . . . #PMLitAwards https://t.co/q2BAtQ1YHQ

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. . . if there was going to be a big awkward gap in the live proceedings at the PMLA in Launceston, might’ve been smart to spend a few bob making short video interviews with the nominees to play during the down time? Just a thought. #pmlitawards

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Thirty minutes in, looks like the PMLA livestream has been paused so the nominees can have a spot of lunch. Che? Did no one think give a thought to the few literary souls across Australia watching at home or in the office? #pmlitawards

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Minister for the Arts @Tony_Burke also a no show at the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards ceremony today, along with Albo. Maybe Launceston seems a slightly quixotic venue if the main power players can’t make it?

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@noblewordscomms @AllenAndUnwin @MacmillanAus @PenguinBooksAus @UQPbooks @GiramondoBooks @HarperCollinsAU @text_publishing @BlackIncBooks @MUPublishing @MagabalaBooks @ScholasticAUS @uwapublishing And of course @PittStPoetry
Small indendent Aussie publishers dominate the awards as usual.

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545 books submitted across six categories. 30 on the short list. The nation’s leading literary awards without the shadow of a doubt. #PMLitAwards #PittStreetPoetry