See the full post on the Red Room blog here
Red Room Poetry would like to state its full and ongoing support for UWAP and its fight to stay open, as well as for the broader West Australian poetry and writing communities this will affect most. extinction shows nothing back, nothing we can learn from, nothing we can focus on ~ John Kinsella, Red Room Commissioned Poet We learned last week of the proposed demise of one of the nation's leading poetry publishers, UWAP. Over the years Red Room Poetry has commissioned and worked closely with many Western Australian poets, more recently as part of New Shoots WA where we collaborated with Westerly and City of Perth. Among our list of commissioned poets are leading voices from the UWAP stable including the likes of Richard James Allen, John Kinsella, Tricia Dearborn, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Quinn Eades, and our 2018 Red Room Poetry Fellowship recipient, Candy Royalle, one of the leading lights of our generation. UWAP was the first imprint to commercially publish Candy's work. More ... *** *** Support UWAP by signing the petition at Change.org Comments are closed.
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