From the Australian Poetry Centre:
http://www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au/?page_id=39
New Poets Series Launch
MONDAY 18 MAY
Come and join us for the launch of the APC New Poets Series at the Sydney Writers Festival in Katoomba.The books are: little bit long time by Ali Cobby Eckermann, Evangelyne & other poems by Helen Hagemann, Awake During Anaesthetic by Kimberley Mann and Canyon by Andrew Slattery. Check them out here.
Katoomba NSW
Evangelyne & other poems
Helen Hagemann
RPP: $10.00
Helen Hagemann’s writing is a triumphant celebration of the power of poetry to recapture the past and still the present. Whether she is remembering growing up on the Central Coast of NSW, memorializing family and neighbours or observing cormorants, she makes each moment vividly real. These poems have all the dazzle and sting of a summer day at the beach, with the Esky full of rolls and lettuce and the ‘cozzie’ a ‘rainbow’ to put on. Evangelyne & other poems is an exuberant, generous, thoroughly lived-in collection. Its relish for the everyday details of Australian life is a rare delight.
- Jean Kent
Helen Hagemann grew up on the Central Coast of NSW during the fifties & sixties, and lived in Sydney for a short time before settling in Perth.
Her poetry is widely published in literary magazines and anthologies. She has an MA in Writing, and teaches prose at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Evangelyne & other poems is her first literary publication.
