Indrani Perera

poet, publisher & mentor

Tag: chapbook

  • Haiku in the Hills

    IP - Haiku in the Hills 1

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    Back in August as part of the Sonic Poetry Festival, I attended the Haiku in the Hills poetry workshop facilitated by AJ D’Costa. We met AJ in the Dandenong Botanic Gardens on a crisp winter morning. Luckily for us, the heavens didn’t open as AJ guided us through the gardens, teaching us about haiku and giving us time to write poems. We ended the walk with a delicious picnic on the grass that AJ had packed and carried for us throughout the walk. It was a lovely morning and a beautiful way to experience poetry in collaboration with and connection to landscape and nature.

    IP - Haiku in the Hills 3

    After the workshop, AJ gathered our poems and put them into this gorgeous zine. I don’t often write haiku so it was wonderful to have a poem included in this collection. One that I am sure I couldn’t have written without AJ’s expert guidance. Thanks AJ for a fabulous poetry workshop and this amazing souvenir of a wonderful morning!

     

  • You’ve Got Mail!

    Wild Heart 1

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    Hello. I hope you're well. I just thought I'd send you this virtual postcard to announce my latest creation.

    Inspired by my love of books – reading, writing, drafting, editing, designing and binding – I've created  a poetry chapbook filled with new and original poetry and photography.

    Wild Heart 4

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    It's been quite a journey. The initial design was pretty much done in a weekend back in late January and then I decided to print it myself. Cue spooky music. It was, dear reader, a very brave decision and not as I discovered, for the faint hearted. I spent months going back and forth to my local printer in my quest to get the book just right.

    I invested a lot of money on beautiful paper for the book, spent a lot of time designing the layout not to mention writing the poems and taking the photographs to accompany them. I was determined to get it right. And I finally did. Yay!

    I wanted to create a beautifully bound book, printed on luxurious paper with full colour photos. It's a limited edition print run of only 25 copies in keeping with a small scale, handmade ethos. If you want to see it, you can check it out in my brand new shop.