Publisher Description

In some ways our poems are our kites. We write them and we fly them in the public sky so that people can admire their beauty and their grace. They are a message to all who care to look up and read them. Some of them fly easily and carry on the wind. Some of them flop and fall to the ground.

When a poem lifts and sustains flight, it is an exhilarating experience. ...The poems we have selected from the eight hundred and fifty poems submitted for this anthology are kites that risked exposure before audiences at a variety of locations. The conditions were right. The poems soared and their flight endured. They are beautiful enough to catch the eye, buoyant enough to fly free on their own and interesting enough to make a lasting impression.

Among the voices published here are many new poets who have never previously weathered the experience of publication. Mentored poets and recipients of Friendly Street prizes are also included. We hope you enjoy this collection, and revel in the aerial dynamics of the poetry.

Author Biography

Judy Dally has published three collections of poetry, has been published in various magazines and newspapers and in the last 23 editions of the Friendly Street Reader. In 2011 she won the John Bray Roman Poetry Prize with Whoever Said of Shane Warne. Judy has a Master of Arts in Literature from Deakin University and has previously tutored in Australian Literature and Adolescent Fiction at the University of South Australia. She is currently a member of the Tutti Choir and a volunteer teaching literacy at Tutti Arts (young people with a disability studying art, music and drama). Louise McKenna was born in the United Kingdom where she studied at the University of Nottingham and the University of Leeds, graduating with a Joint Honours degree in English and French. Louise was a finalist in the inaugural Cricket Poetry Award 2009. Her first collection of poetry, A Lesson in Being Mortal, was published in Friendly Street New Poets 15 by Wakefield Press in 2010. Her work has since appeared in Sorcerers and Soothsayers: Friendly Street Poets 35, The Independent Weekly, Poetrix and paper wasp. She has read some of her poetry on Radio Adelaide and recently won Poem of the Month in the monthly science poem competition held by the Royal Institute of Australia. Louise works part time as a Registered Nurse.

Long Description

In some ways our poems are our kites. We write them and we fly them in the public sky so that people can admire their beauty and their grace. They are a message to all who care to look up and read them. Some of them fly easily and carry on the wind. Some of them flop and fall to the ground. When a poem lifts and sustains flight, it is an exhilarating experience. ...The poems we have selected from the eight hundred and fifty poems submitted for this anthology are kites that risked exposure before audiences at a variety of locations. The conditions were right. The poems soared and their flight endured. They are beautiful enough to catch the eye, buoyant enough to fly free on their own and interesting enough to make a lasting impression. Among the voices published here are many new poets who have never previously weathered the experience of publication. Mentored poets and recipients of Friendly Street prizes are also included. We hope you enjoy this collection, and revel in the aerial dynamics of the poetry.

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