A new multimedia poem, Betelgeuse, was shortlisted for the Newcastle Prize's New Media Award.
March 14, 2005 (Press Release) --
A new multimedia poem, Betelgeuse, was shortlisted for the Newcastle Prize's New Media Award. Betelgeuse, dubbed "an astronomical Coleridge" combines an exploration of a human nervous breakdown with the impending explosion of the giant star Betelgeuse in a piece which breaks new ground its multimedia combination of music, poetry, performance, and imagery. The piece was a collaborative project between Magdalena Ball and artist and musician Craig Browne of Relatively Creative and will be published in an anthology due out in mid-April.
The Newcastle prize is a collaboration between the Newcastle City Council, the University of Newcastle and the Hunter Writer’s Centre, and is one of Australia’s most prestigious poetry prizes. Previous winners and commended entries have included work from nationally and internationally recognised names such as Peter Porter, Brook Emery, Anthony Lawrence and Robert Adamson.
The piece can be viewed at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/betelguese.swf
Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader web site http://www.compulsivereader.com/html. Her publication credits include university journals like Imago and Drexel Online, popular fiction venues like Skive Magazine and Perigree, and review publications like Midwest Book Reviews and Relix Magazine. Her nonfiction book, The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything is available from http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/assessmentorderform.html, and her first novel, Sleep Before Evening, is currently under consideration.
The Newcastle prize is a collaboration between the Newcastle City Council, the University of Newcastle and the Hunter Writer’s Centre, and is one of Australia’s most prestigious poetry prizes. Previous winners and commended entries have included work from nationally and internationally recognised names such as Peter Porter, Brook Emery, Anthony Lawrence and Robert Adamson.
The piece can be viewed at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/betelguese.swf
Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader web site http://www.compulsivereader.com/html. Her publication credits include university journals like Imago and Drexel Online, popular fiction venues like Skive Magazine and Perigree, and review publications like Midwest Book Reviews and Relix Magazine. Her nonfiction book, The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything is available from http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/assessmentorderform.html, and her first novel, Sleep Before Evening, is currently under consideration.
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