My article “Griftivism: How Activists Profit off Your Empathy” has been published on The Black Sheep, a US-based publication for those who “refuse to fit the mold when it feels like a cage”. My thanks to co-founders and editors Salomé Sibonex and Joseph Klein for taking the piece and for their excellent editorial input. Please visit The Black Sheep and …
Below is a copy of my article, ‘My Year of Living Shamefully’, which was originally published in The Weekend Australian on 11/11/2021. My thanks to Literary Editor Caroline Overington for commissioning the piece and for permission to reproduce it. My Year of Living Shamefully by Michele Seminara In the 1970s, poet John Forbes dubbed the Australian poetry scene “a knife fight in …
I was delighted to feature on author Suzanne Leal’s Thursday Book Club. We dove into my poetry collection Suburban Fantasy, read some rather dark poems, talked about what inspired them and discussed what it’s like being managing editor of literary journal Verity La. Suzanne’s friendly and informal online book club can be joined every Thursday night here.
I’m delighted that Suburban Fantasy has been reviewed so thoroughly and thoughtfully in The Canberra Times. It’s one of the few papers that still regularly features and reviews poetry. Priceless! Suburban Fantasy establishes itself disquietingly from the first poem, and it’s not the romp the raspberry-pink, pop-cultural binding of the book might suggest. This is fantasy from the word’s deep …
I’m fortunate to have had some commentary about Suburban Fantasy published in the last few weeks. My thanks to Gemma Billington for conducting this thought-provoking interview. THE MOST POWERFUL POETS FOR ME SPEAK TO WHAT’S TRUEST AND MOST FUNDAMENTAL IN THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE, AND IN READING AND RECOGNISING MY OWN INNER WORLD IN THEIRS, I FIND COMRADERY AND SOLACE. — …
It was an honour and pleasure to chat to fellow poet David Ades on Westwords Poets’ Corner. We spoke on the theme of ‘suburban noir’, reading and discussing poems from Suburban Fantasy. The timing was apt as both David and I were locked down in suburbia during a Sydney covid outbreak, juggling work with homeschooling! But we made it through …
On 1 July 2021, Senator Mehreen Faurqi launched my poetry collection Suburban Fantasy, a feminist exploration of the dark underbelly of suburbia. What was to have been an evening of live presentations hosted by Poetry Sydney at Surry Hills Library was quickly reconfigured into an online launch in response to Sydney’s latest Covid lockdown. Undeterred, Senator Faruqi delivered a powerful …
Huge thanks to fellow Australian poet James Laidler for interviewing me on his excellent Litpoetry Podcast. James also made a beautiful poetry video of my poem, ‘Family Tree‘, which comes from my newest poetry collection Suburban Fantasy. Please check out James’ website which hosts a swathe of resources for poetry lovers and writers alike — plus, some excellent guidance for …
Please join me for the virtual launch of Suburban Fantasy this Thursday 1 July! The book was to have been launched in person by Senator Mehreen Faruqi in the beautiful Enid Cook room above Surry Hills Library, with wine and food aplenty. Sadly, due to Sydney covid restrictions, this is no longer possible and the event will now be held …
A huge thanks to Robert Adamson, Yvette Henry Holt, Robbie Coburn and Anne Casey for their generous commentary on my new poetry collection Suburban Fantasy. You can read their kind words below, sample poems from the book here, and if you feel inspired to do so, support Australian poetry by buying a copy from UWA Publishing! “Michele is the finest …