Award-winning Adelaide independent publisher
Permanent Waves
The purpose of Permanent Waves is to bring poetry into private reflection in the time that becomes available while waiting in public settings specifically, in the first instance, hairdressers’ waiting rooms. Bringing poetry into such moments provides an opportunity for the public to explore poetry in individual ways, perhaps for the first time.
Readers have the opportunity to be touched by a range of emotional, conceptual, philosophical and narrative themes. In order to make this possible, each edition of Permanent Waves is compiled to provide emotional balance and variety.
Poems selected are brief (no more than 20 lines, maximum 45 characters per line), accessible to a range of readers and capable of bringing refreshing insights and perspectives into daily life and its moments of transcendence.
Permanent Waves is not a conventional literary journal. The two-sided A4 tri-folded format, produced quarterly, imposes editorial constraints as well as providing an opportunity for poets to respond to the challenges of limited time for initial reading in busy yet impersonal public spaces. The initial impact determines whether or not readers choose to take away the free Permanent Waves folder.
Permanent Waves has the potential to stimulate public interest in revisiting poetry and, in order for this to happen, the blend of poems is carefully considered by the editors. This process also ensures that submissions that meet the brief will be considered more than once.
A special feature of Permanent Waves is that it has the potential to provide poets and poems with wide exposure. Permanent Waves is a non-profit publication and the benefits come from exposure of poets work rather than payment.
Although circulation is limited to selected areas of suburban Adelaide in the initial phase, the intention is to expand into other locations and into waiting rooms of other kinds. In its trial phase, Permanent Waves is being sponsored by Ginninderra Press.
Copyright remains with authors. The editors are especially happy to re-publish previously published work. Sources are acknowledged and readers who wish to buy books mentioned are referred to the Ginninderra Press website and/or to East Avenue Books (1/53 East Avenue, Clarence Park, SA).
For a printable PDF copy of Permanent Waves Issue 1, click here Permanent Waves 1
Organisations which would like to acquire multiple copies for their waiting room, please email Ginninderra Press.
Editors
Brenda Eldridge is an Adelaide poet and former public servant. Her two collections, The Silver Cord and It’s All Good, were published by Ginninderra Press in 2009.
Joan Fenney's poetry has been published in newspapers, magazines and journals throughout Australia. Her first collection of poems, Marilyn Monroe by the Brooklyn Bridge and other portraits, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2009.
Ann Nadge is an Adelaide poet. She has published five collections with Ginninderra Press. Her work has been selected for editions of Poems in the Waiting Room (UK), Southern Ocean Review (NZ), Stylus, The Australian Reader and The Independent Weekly. A selection of Ann's work is included in Poetry pf, a UK based web site and one of her poems was chosen for The Methuen Book of Poems for Everyday. Ann's most recent work, The Barest Record, explores the ways in which poetry can become a vehicle for the expression of historical works, including letters.
Shelda Rathmann has been an English teacher for over 30 years and is now working at Eynesbury Senior College. She has published numerous books of students’ creative writing, poetry and art throughout her career and in 2008 she conducted writing workshops at a homeless women’s shelter in Adelaide, producing a successful anthology. Recently she started writing her own poetry and has been published in The Mozzie, The Independent Weekly, Tamba and the Spring Poetry Festival anthology. She has also had poems accepted by The Write Angle.
The editors acknowledge inspiration provided by the Poems in the Waiting Room project in the UK.
Stephen Matthews Ginninderra Press PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015
stephen@ginninderrapress.com.au
www.ginninderrapress.com.au
ABN 42 447 290 724
The purpose of Permanent Waves is to bring poetry into private reflection in the time that becomes available while waiting in public settings specifically, in the first instance, hairdressers’ waiting rooms. Bringing poetry into such moments provides an opportunity for the public to explore poetry in individual ways, perhaps for the first time.
Readers have the opportunity to be touched by a range of emotional, conceptual, philosophical and narrative themes. In order to make this possible, each edition of Permanent Waves is compiled to provide emotional balance and variety.
Poems selected are brief (no more than 20 lines, maximum 45 characters per line), accessible to a range of readers and capable of bringing refreshing insights and perspectives into daily life and its moments of transcendence.
Permanent Waves is not a conventional literary journal. The two-sided A4 tri-folded format, produced quarterly, imposes editorial constraints as well as providing an opportunity for poets to respond to the challenges of limited time for initial reading in busy yet impersonal public spaces. The initial impact determines whether or not readers choose to take away the free Permanent Waves folder.
Permanent Waves has the potential to stimulate public interest in revisiting poetry and, in order for this to happen, the blend of poems is carefully considered by the editors. This process also ensures that submissions that meet the brief will be considered more than once.
A special feature of Permanent Waves is that it has the potential to provide poets and poems with wide exposure. Permanent Waves is a non-profit publication and the benefits come from exposure of poets work rather than payment.
Although circulation is limited to selected areas of suburban Adelaide in the initial phase, the intention is to expand into other locations and into waiting rooms of other kinds. In its trial phase, Permanent Waves is being sponsored by Ginninderra Press.
Copyright remains with authors. The editors are especially happy to re-publish previously published work. Sources are acknowledged and readers who wish to buy books mentioned are referred to the Ginninderra Press website and/or to East Avenue Books (1/53 East Avenue, Clarence Park, SA).
For a printable PDF copy of Permanent Waves Issue 1, click here Permanent Waves 1
Organisations which would like to acquire multiple copies for their waiting room, please email Ginninderra Press.
Editors
Brenda Eldridge is an Adelaide poet and former public servant. Her two collections, The Silver Cord and It’s All Good, were published by Ginninderra Press in 2009.
Joan Fenney's poetry has been published in newspapers, magazines and journals throughout Australia. Her first collection of poems, Marilyn Monroe by the Brooklyn Bridge and other portraits, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2009.
Ann Nadge is an Adelaide poet. She has published five collections with Ginninderra Press. Her work has been selected for editions of Poems in the Waiting Room (UK), Southern Ocean Review (NZ), Stylus, The Australian Reader and The Independent Weekly. A selection of Ann's work is included in Poetry pf, a UK based web site and one of her poems was chosen for The Methuen Book of Poems for Everyday. Ann's most recent work, The Barest Record, explores the ways in which poetry can become a vehicle for the expression of historical works, including letters.
Shelda Rathmann has been an English teacher for over 30 years and is now working at Eynesbury Senior College. She has published numerous books of students’ creative writing, poetry and art throughout her career and in 2008 she conducted writing workshops at a homeless women’s shelter in Adelaide, producing a successful anthology. Recently she started writing her own poetry and has been published in The Mozzie, The Independent Weekly, Tamba and the Spring Poetry Festival anthology. She has also had poems accepted by The Write Angle.
The editors acknowledge inspiration provided by the Poems in the Waiting Room project in the UK.
Stephen Matthews Ginninderra Press PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015
stephen@ginninderrapress.com.au
www.ginninderrapress.com.au
ABN 42 447 290 724