The Poets Voice
The Poet’s Voice believes in the power of collective listening.
Working in partnership with writers festivals and cultural organisations founder Ellen Koshland and associate Nikki Anderson have curated large scale events in beautiful venues, gathering people together to listen to poetry on themes and topics both political and poetic.
Anna Akhmatova: An Innocent Russia Writhed
31 August 2008, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne
Nearly 700 admirers of Akhmatova’s work filled St Paul’s Cathedral, listening to the once-banned poems, read in both Russian and English. Over the hour the story of Anna Akhmatova’s achievement built a cumulative power. A woman born in testing times. Akhmatova continued to write poems through the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, the rise of Stalin, the Terror, and WW II, even when many around her—including her closest family—were arrested, executed, exiled in camps or else fled the country. The beauty of her personal poems sounded alongside her many historic poems including a selected reading from ‘Requiem’.
Programs
Melbourne Writers Festival, Survival in the Valley of Its Making, 2007
Lover's in Trouble, Merlyn Theatre Cub Malthouse, Nov 2010
the Necessary, Shakespeare, Whitman, Simpson Desert, Sexton, Behbahani, Bukowski, Poet ( The Poet's Voice ) Sep 2012
Program, The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova, Melbourne Writers Festival 2008
The Poet's Voice, Acmi, Bei Dao, Eliot Weinberger, Melbourne Writers Festival 2011
The Poet's Voice: Wislawa Szymborska, 2010
Pleasure & Pain: Poetry & the body, Melbourne Writers Festival 2009
Purgatorio: Australia today, the Poet's Voice, 2013
Poetry of Rebellion, Melbourne Writers Festival 2010, RMIT Capitol Theatre
Publications
Words to Sing the World Alive: A Celebration of First Nations Languages by Jasmin McGaughey, The Poets Voice ( Cover Art by artist Jenna Lee )
Purgatorio: Australia today, 2013
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For more information on The Poet’s Voice contact: ellenkoshland.projects@gmail.com