From late June until late July, Luke Fischer has a writers' residency at the Château de Lavigny, Switzerland, to work on completing the manuscript of a new book of poems. On 17 July there will be a public reading featuring the five residents during this period (http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/readings/). Before this he will be giving a reading and conference presentation at Oxford University, as well as readings in London and Kraków, Poland (more details).

Luke Fischer's book The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems has been reviewed by Lesley Chamberlain in the TLS. Here is a link to the contents page of the relevant issue: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/multimedia/archive/01219/Contents08-04_1219022a.pdf

Luke Fischer's book The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems has been reviewed in the journal Phenomenological Reviews. Here is a link to the review: http://reviews.ophen.org/2016/02/29/luke-fischer-poet-phenomenologist-rilke-new-poems/

On the evening of Saturday 13 February Luke Fischer will be reading poems and talking about poetry, water and ecology with Brook Emery, Peter Minter, Kate Middleton, and Deborah Bird Rose at the Paddington Reservoir Gardens. The poetry event 'The Language of Water' is a collaboration between POEMS NB and Janet Laurence's art installation H2O: Water Bar. Here is a link to further details: https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/the-language-of-water 

The Best Australian Poems 2015 was released late last year. Luke Fischer's poem 'Val di Noto, Sicily' is included in the anthology. Here is a link with a list of all the contributors: http://www.bestaustralianwriting.com.au/poems/

Some other poems relating to Italy appeared in the recent, special double issue of Contrappasso magazine (2015) on 'Long Distance': https://contrappassomag.wordpress.com/

Luke Fischer's book The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems has been reviewed by Paul Hetherington in Cordite Poetry Review. Here is a link to the review: http://cordite.org.au/reviews/hetherington-fischer-rilke/

Luke Fischer will be reading poems (in English and in German translation) on Poetry Night III at the International Literature Festival in Berlin (Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin). The other guest poets are John Mateer and Polish poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. Here is a link to further details: http://www.literaturfestival.com/program-en/literaturen-der-welt-en/2015/poetry-night-iii-eugeniusz-tkaczyszyn-dycki-poland-luke-fischer-australia-and-john-mateer-south-africa-australia?set_language=en  

Luke Fischer's poem 'After the Storm' has been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. All poems on the shortlist will be published in the prize anthology and the awards will be announced on 24 October. Here is a link to the full shortlist: http://www.hunterwriterscentre.org/

On the evening of Thursday 18 June, Luke Fischer's book The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015) will be launched by visiting philosopher Professor Eckart Förster at the Goethe-Institut Sydney. A number of poets – Judith Beveridge, Peter Boyle, Jennifer Harrison, and Vivian Smith – will also discuss connections between Rilke's poetry and their own writing. The event is free but please register by sending an email to: [email protected]
Here is a link to further details: http://www.goethe.de/ins/au/en/lp/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20505945

Date: Thu 18 June 2015
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Location: Goethe-Institut Sydney
Address: 90 Ocean Street, Woollahra NSW 2025
Tel: 8356 8333
Entry: Free with registration
Registration: Email [email protected]