Sydney Centre
The poem arrives at Sydney PEN Centre in Australia on April 24, 2008, when you will be able to watch video performances of it in Darug, English, French and Spanish and read and listen to the poem in Arrernte.
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“As a writer who has the fredom to write without fear or constraint, and for whom silence is a choice, I would feel ashamed if I did not speak up for a writer anywhere on whom silence is enforced with all the terrible machinery of the state.”
David Malouf Sydney PEN member |
14a Lonsdale Close
Lake Haven, NSW 2263
www.pen.org.au
sydney@pen.org.au
- Sydney PEN, along with Swiss German PEN and Independent Chinese PEN, is the sponsor and organiser of this PEN Poem Relay on behalf of International PEN.
- Sydney PEN was founded in 1933 by Ethel Turner, Mary Gilmore and Dorothea Mackellar, and is one of three PEN groupings in Australia.
- Prominent members include Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, Tom Keneally, David Malouf, Geraldine Brooks, Frank Moorhouse, Alexis Wright and Helen Garner.
- In 2004 Sydney PEN won the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Award for its work with writers in Australian immigration detention centres.
- Sydney PEN’s activities include public lectures by prominent writers, the publication of anthologies of literary work, supporting literacy and translation and defending freedom of expression in Australia and overseas.
Sydney PEN is grateful for the extraordinary contribution made by BarNet in hosting, programming and designing the PEN Poem Relay website and in particular to Jack Moggach for his expertise, wisdom and guidance.
We are also grateful to Hugo Bowne-Anderson for coordinating our Indigenous translations and to Shakhti at CuriousWorks for shooting our video performances of the poem.
On 24 April you can watch the video performance of June in...
| Darug |   |
Read and listen to it in...
| Arrernte |  |
And also watch video performances in...
| English | |
| Spanish | |
| French | |
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