Indrani Perera

poet, publisher & mentor

Tag: poetry collection

  • Fontastic!

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    I'm an old fashioned gal at heart. I adore vintage furniture and ephemera like suitcases, hat boxes, shoe lasts, tie clips and butter knives with bone handles. I also haver a thing for graphic design so it made perfect sense to combine these two loves and create a postcard to send to friends and family for the upcoming launch of Pas De Deux, my second collection of poetry.

    I've recently become a bit of a font geek and have been obsessing over the best typefaces to use for my designs. I'm still not 100% sure of the distinction between a typeface and font even after reading the excellent book Just My Type by Simon Garfield which I got for Christmas last year. Designing the invitation for my launch, however, was a breeze because I just had to use the fonts which I had already used for the cover of the book itself. For those of you interested in such arcane, matters I used Playfair Display for the heading and Montserrat Classic for the sub headings. I set the text on the back in Bodoni FLF.

    It was great to sit down with my address book, a pile of postcards and some stamps and write out all the invitations. And then of course the fun of opening up that great big red box and putting the postcards inside. Isn't it marvellous that all you have to do is stick on a stamp and then your letter gets taken all around the world?

     

  • You’re Invited!

    Book Launch Instagram Post (& emails & text Message) - Pas De Deux

    My second collection of poetry, Pas De Deux, has been published by Gininderra Press and you’re invited to the online launch via Zoom at 7pm on Tuesday 30th March 2021. If you can make it, please RSVP by 23 March 2021 to hello@indraniperera.com with “YES” in the subject line.

    7.00 pm

    Tuesday 30th March 2021

    Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6014563938

    Copies of the book are $22.50 (plus $5.00 for postage and packaging for Australian orders). If you’d like to pre-order a copy to have at the launch, I’ll happily post one out to you. Just let me know when you RSVP that you’d like a copy (and let me know if you’d like it signed!). Once you’ve paid, I’ll mail out your copy.

     

  • The Shift

    by Indrani Perera

     

    there’s this thing

    it happens in brilliant poems

    where you’re listening

    or reading the words

    swept up in the imagery

    of a slide curving and swerving

    from the top of a treehouse

    to the bottom

    when suddenly

    on the way down 

    the slide

    turns into someone’s insides

    and you’re running your fingers

    along the walls of her womb

     

    Listen to the audio recording here:

    The Shift by Indrani Perera

     

    This poem appears in Pas De Deux, Indrani Perera’s second collection of poetry.

    A big thank you to Michelle McCowage whose brilliant poem inspired this poem.