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Poet and PhD student in French Studies and visual poetry @unimelb These Are Different Waters out with Vagabond Press (2023)

Naarm/Melbourne
Joined July 2014
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
I want your ‘Space’ poetry for @corditepoetry Submit by September 1 📗🔭⭐️
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
Tonight Alexis Wright becomes the first Australian writer to win the ALS Gold Medal three times. “PRAISEWORTHY is hilarious, furious, poetical and painful, and all in large order.” @GiramondoBooks
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“This is a poetry that pushes grammatical and existential boundaries, dunking on the reader with imperatives, or subtly reflecting and refracting incessant managerial nominalisations.” Dan Hogan (@packetofchips) wins the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award! @corditepoetry
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Guest-edited by Mykaela Saunders, the Odes series invites six First Nations poets to write an ode to another. Featuring poems from Ali Cobby Eckermann, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Jeanine Leane, Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta, Lionel G. Fogarty & Tony Birch.
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
Shortlisted for the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award: Ella Skillbeck-Porter, THESE ARE DIFFERENT WATERS “When you send a book out into the world, you hope it finds its readers & connects, so I’m moved & honoured to have reached the shortlist alongside so many incredible titles.” @ella_esp
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
The judges also awarded three highly commended awards: These Are Different Waters by Ella Skilbeck-Porter (Vagabond, 2023), Chinese Fish by Grace Yee (Giramondo, 2023) and The Djinn Hunters by Nadia Niaz (Rabbit, 2023).
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
The winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 is Sara M Saleh (@SaraSalehTweets) with The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (@UQPbooks, 2023). This year's judging panel included Jeanine Leane, Panda Wong and Harry Reid
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
⚡️SALON NEWS ⚡️ Join us on Tuesday 14th November for our last salon of the year: an evening of readings from Nick Roger Clarke, Amy Crutchfield, Paul Dalgarno, André Dao, Ella Skilbeck-Porter and Emily Spurr.  For more info head to our salon page: shorturl.at/gvz23 🥳📚
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O to blot out this garden to forget, to find a new beauty in some terrible wind-tortured place. —H.D. was born #OnThisDay in 1886. #PoemOfTheDay bit.ly/44LMV1E
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
Strike has started! Now at Raymond Priestly #unimelbstrikes
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
Welcome to strike week! Thousands of @NTEUnion members across Victoria are taking industrial action: a ground-breaking 5-day strike at @UniMelb, as well as half-day strikes at @Swinburne and @RMIT. #HigherED needs a better deal: Real Pay Rises | Secure Jobs | Fair Workloads.
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
given I’m very often asking Writers Victoria tutors to promote their workshops, I should probably actually post about my own mini-workshop next week — here is a link & a picture with details: writersvictoria.org.au/calen…
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
Our new bimonthly newsletter, RE:HEAT is a letter of recommendation from one writer on another, which brings to light some of the extraordinary writing in the HEAT archive. Read the first instalment here, featuring @JosephineRowe on Gillian Mears: mailchi.mp/giramondopublishi…
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
The absence of Michael Henry Heim’s name stings. “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” would have failed to become a runaway hit in English without his talent — and were it not for his insistence on keeping that indelible title, the publisher would have called it “The Dog Karenin.”
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
Out next month: The Tour by Π.O., a legendary figure in the Australian poetry scene. The Tour is a chronicle of the early days of performance poetry, presented as a road trip in verse by one of its greatest practitioners. Pre-order now: giramondopublishing.com/book…
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault. From THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, a book that feels like summer to me. And @avecsesdoigts’s translation of the first official automatic writing is spectacular.
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les plages d’agnès (2008)
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50% OFF #POETRY SALE Use code WINTER23 at check out. **No more than 1 copy per title** Good through 30 June. Punt on something new. EOFY in Australia, please forward this offer to any reading clubs or educators that may be interested. corditebooks.org.au/
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Ella Skilbeck-Porter retweeted
Hello again! Issue 2 of Crawlspace is now live! ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ ⇝ Featuring digital literary work from Alicia Guo, Holly Isemonger, Tegan Webb and Theo Ellin Ballew ⇝ crawlspace.cool [best viewed on desktop!]
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