The Tuesday Poem

The Tuesday Poem -- 3 February 2015

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Tuesday Poem features  'Like a Butterfly' by Jennifer Compton this week. Jennifer is a Tuesday Poem member, and the TP group is celebrating with her this week as she releases her new poetry collection, Now You Shall Know, published by Five Islands Press. The book will be launched at Melbourne's Collected Work's Bookshop by Geoffrey Lehmann Thursday 5th February at 6.00 pm. 

This poem is brought to us by Catherine Bateson. Catherine writes about Compton's work:

I first came across Jennifer's work in 1994 or 1995 when I read it in Cordite - which was then published as a hard copy broadsheet. It was the day after a three day Australian Poetry Festival held at Stonnington and I was on a bus going to Leongatha. I should have been poetry-ed out, but I opened Cordite and there was her direct, passionate but laconic voice. I was bowled over. 

Congratulations, Jennifer Compton, on your new book, and thank you, Catherine, for sharing this wonderful poem this week!

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Jennifer Compton is a poet, short fiction writer and an award-winning playwright. Recent works include, Parker & Quink,  Ginninderra Press in 2004, Barefoot,  2010 and This City, Otago University Press in July 2011.Barefoot was shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award at the Adelaide Festival and This City and won the Kathleen Grattan Award in New Zealand. Check out Stillcraic for her weekly poem post.

Catherine Bateson is a poet and novelist for children and young adults and she is also a partner in a publishing and editing services business,Tyle&Bateson Publishing. She is Melbourne-based.