Eels

So eels are not having the easiest time. There is this project in the U.K. between Plymouth University and Guillemot Press to publish some books around the topic of eels to raise awareness of their situation.

My friend would tell me of the eels her family watched every year near Ballarat, in the local creek that flowed all year round. Now that creek is dammed and no longer flows, thus no more eels travelling along their ancient pathways. (Regenerative farming methods have solutions for much healthier ways to manage water on properties that value and protect water and build up healthy ecosystems and allow for creatures to do their natural thing) . Anyway, I've an eel drawing and a poem in this eel project. This is my drawing towards the aid of the mysterious and majestic eels.

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PoetiCas reading Sunday 18th November 2018

After being one of the co-conveners of PoetiCas, Castlemaine’s monthly poetry reading, for the past four years, I am this month our guest poet.

PoetiCas:
featuring ALLIS HAMILTON.

Sunday November 18th

2pm for a 2.30 start

at The Maurocco Bar

4 Templeton St

Castlemaine

Open section as usual,

limited to 3 minutes per reader.

$5 donation at the door includes a raffle ticket
All welcome!

Allis Hamilton creates poetry, art and music. Her poems appear in anthologies and journals such as The Poetry Review (England), Australian Poetry Journal, Overland, Southerly, Plumwood Mountain, The Caterpillar (Ireland), and ‘Flightpath’– an anthology about migrating birds, published by Hallowell Press W.A. She has new work coming out in Eyeware (England), and in an Eel Anthology published by Guillemot Press, U.K. Allis was a guest poet at the Summer 2017 launch of the Poetry Review, London. She released a self-published site-specific collection, 'Cry of the Curlew – Poems of Pinchgut Creek', in June this year and has created a limited edition chapbook of poems and drawings, ‘Storm Music’. www.thestorytellingtent.com

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Pop-Up Art

I have a few small drawings in this show.

If you are in the area, drop in to have a squizz.
Exhibition Dates:

2018 Exhibition touring and viewing:

Riddells Creek Station
Thursday 8th – Monday 19th November

Castlemaine Station
Wednesday 21st – Thursday 29th November

Bendigo Station
Saturday 1st – Monday 10th December

2019 Exhibition touring and viewing:

Bendigo Marketplace
Tuesday 15th January – Tuesday 12th February
116-120 Mitchell St | Bendigo

Arnold Street Gallery
Thursday 14th February – Tuesday 19th March
189 Arnold Street | North Bendigo

Castlemaine State Festival | Open Studios Program
Thursday 21st March – Monday 1st April
Castlemaine V/Line Station | Castlemaine

 

A travelling feast of miniature art works from a collective of Central Victorian Artists

Small art works, curated and presented to a high standard, will ‘pop up’ at different destinations along the historical railway line from Melbourne to Bendigo. This group show is taking art to the people, allowing broad public interaction with local art and arts practice.

A group show with a BIGGER purpose

Artists will be selected according to curatorial policy, developed via community consultation, with the aim of building a professional arts marketing cooperative. This model allows local artists to leverage individual effort into collective group initiatives, sharing resources for exhibition, presentation, marketing, communications, and distribution of their work.

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Cry of the Curlew

Cry of the Curlew is a poetry collection anchored in and around Pinchgut Creek on Wiradjuri country. Allis Hamilton fetched poems from the wings of birds, wrestled words from the mouth of the wind, notated the movement of grasses into verse that will lead you to the hills of her home.

 

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Storm Music Chapbook

'Storm Music' is a chapbook handmade by Allis Hamilton, featuring a selection of some of her previously published poems. The collection is 16 pages and is a signed, limited edition run of 50 books. The book is printed on recycled paper (except the transparency page) and is bound on a foot-pedal machine. It is created in an off-grid shack in the Australian bush. 'Storm Music' includes drawings by Allis.

Praise for 'Storm Music':

'What a beautiful thing ‘Storm Music’ is! [Hamilton] has a passion for landscape, the kindest sympathy with animals – yet some of [her] best, irresistibly vivid poems are about people.'
– ALISON BRACKNBURY, award-winning poet and broadcaster and author of Skies,(Carcanet) author of 'Skies', chosen by 'The Observer' as one of its 'Poetry Books of the Year'.

"I've received your book, which is a truly beautiful book in every way - the artwork, the paper, the stitching. And of course the poems, all of which speak to me quietly but strongly. I love 'Storm Music', and 'Proprioception' is I think a superb poem. I think all books of poetry should be like this."
– ROSS GILLETT, author of Wundawax and other poems - with Mark Time Books and a new one coming out this year through Puncher and Wattman.

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ETSY Store

So you will see that i have added an Etsy store to my website.

I have my chapbook, STORM MUSIC, available for sale at the moment, and in time hope to add prints of my artworks and after June you will be able to purchase my new poetry collection on there.

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Layers of Pinchgut Creek

Recently I have sat two residencies at Pinchgut Creek, on Wiradjuri Country.

Here is a link to my report from my time there:

Overland

My poem, BREATH, now lives in the excellent Overland Literary Journal.
 Thank you to the editors, Toby Fitch, and Jacinda Woodhead, for selecting it.

Artwork © Brent Stegeman

Flightpath now available

Flightpath, the anthology, which includes my poem 'Lost Albert Ross', edited by Virginia Jealous, created by Hallowell Press, WA has arrived.

Here is a review of the anthlogy: Flightpath https://westerlymag.com.au/flightpath-review/

You can get your copy here: https://hallowellpress.com/

Pelican not included

Mural at Grong Grong Hotel

Over this weekend, I created this mural on the back wall of the Grong Grong Hotel, out by the free camping area. If you are ever passing through, drop by for a squizz.

Flightpath Book Launch

At 5pm, Friday 13th October, 'Flightpath' – an anthology about Migrating Birds, will be launchedat The Arts House, 2A Strickland Street, Denmark. My poem, dedicated to Robert Macfarlane, 'Lost Albert Ross' is included in this collection.

'A Spell of Poetry' at Daylesford's Words in Winter Festival

On Saturday 5th August I read some poems, and sang some songs, and told some stories at this event as a part of Daylesford's Words in Winter event.

"Fresh from reading her poetry in London, Allis Hamilton will perform and read her poems, some perhaps with music. Allis is a host of Castlemaine's poetry readings: PoetiCas. Here is a chance to hear her perform her own work.
She is an internationally published writer of words that create a sense of wonder, myth and magic. At times funny, at times thought provoking."
When:
 Sunday 6th Augusr 1.30 -2.30 Show with morning tea
Where: 
Story House and Garden
52 Millar Street. Daylesford
Enquiries:
info@storyhouseandgarden.com
Ph 0408 550 945
Cost: $20

Reading at Summer launch of Poetry Review, London

I was a tremendous honour and thrill to be one of the readers at the Summer launch of The Poetry Review, at alongside my most excellent fellow poets: Vahni Capildeo, Kit Han and Wayne Holloway-Smith.

"Love is so short" by Blank Rune Press

I have a poem, 'Yet', in this anthology edited by Valli Poole, published by Blank Rune Press. It is called "Love is so short".

Here is Nadyr perusing the book.

Noted Festival schedule

Here is a link to where you might find me during the Noted Festival in Canberra.

http://www.notedfestival.com/program?tag=Allis%20Hamilton

You might well also find me here, at the 'Bridging the Distances' oral histories swap meet.
Here is the link: http://www.notedfestival.com/program/oral-history-swapmeet

Noted Festival

I am excited to say that I will be a guest writer at Noted Festival in Canberra 3-7th May 2017
You can check out the artist line-up here: http://www.notedfestival.com/artists-2017/

'A Satellite of Eyes' published in The Spring 2017 edition of The Caterpillar

My poem about one of my encounters with owls has been published in the lovely Irish magazine for children, The Caterpillar. Here is the link to the magazine:

Cover Art by Sarah-Jane Szikora

'Egg' in The Pickled Body

My poem, 'Egg', is published in The Pickled Body, Issue 3.2.

Edited by Patrick Chapman & Dimitra Xidous

Image by Sophie Laylor

Here is a link to the poem in the issue:

'Poetry' & 'Proprioception' in The Southerly Journal

Two poems: 'Poetry' & 'Proprioception', are published in Southerly Journal, Volume 76, Number 2

Edited by Andy Jackson and David Brooks

'For the Birds' in Australian Poetry Journal

My poem, 'For the Birds', is published in Australian Poetry Journal Volume 6, Issue 2; Edited by Michael Sharkey