THYLAZINE #12/07 ISSN-1444-1594 The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature Cover: Walking Skin 1 83cm x 107cm by Deborah Young, 2004.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Thylazine Foundation Story by Coral Hull >>>>>>>Ethics and the Revelation of Creativity by Levin A. Diatschenko >>>My Arthritic Heart: Writing An Illness Narrative by Liz Hall-Downs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Andy Jackson and Jen Jewel Brown with Peter Davis >>>>>>>Oz Poets At Work Series 1: Jeri Kroll, David Barnes, Judith Bishop, Tricia Dearborn, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Tatjana Lukic, David Musgrave, Angela Costi, Kris Hemensley, Barbara De Franceschi, Geoff Page, Deb Westbury >>>Australian Poetry Book Reviews by Liz Hall-Downs and Justin Lowe >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Featured Artist Paintings by Deborah Young >>>>>>>Patrick Alexander: Poet and Performance Artist by Peter Davis >>>>>>>>>>>The Mirrored Soul: Creating The Landscape by Coral Hull >>>>>>>>>>>>>>Observations From The 'Real World' by Angela Costi >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Olympic Poet Idea by Mark O'Connor >>>>>Oz Poets Series 12: Andy Jackson, Jane Williams, Tim Heffernan, Jen Jewel Brown, Terry Jaensch, Geoff Fox, Judith Aquilina, Timoshenko Aslanides, Kaye Aldenhoven, Peter Davis, Michelle Cahill and Matt Hetherington
The Thylazine Foundation: Arts, Ethics & Literature
~TURN OFF THE MASS MEDIA, THINK POSITIVE, BE KIND, CREATE ART AND CREATE REALITY~
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. -- Marianne Williamson
The Thylazine Foundation Pty Ltd: Arts, Ethics and Literature ACN: 103 717 595
THE THYLAZINE GOODWILL FUNDRASIER DONATE 20.00 - It's The Act of Giving That Counts
Support free culture and creative arts in Australia. Thylazine is a free ezine featuring Australian artists, writers, musicians and photographers and including articles, artwork, interviews, photography and book reviews of Australian poetry. All donations assist in paying the contributors and go towards the general costs involved in running the ezine and website. The Thylazine Foundation Information & Resource website hosts Australian Artists and Writers Directory, Australian Artists and Writers for Peace, Australian Artists and Writers for the World and a comprehensive online Photo Gallery, Archives, Quotations and Links. The Thylazine Foundations assists animals in need, has fed over 250 familes from disadvantaged situations in The Northern Territory and has donated over 2,303 books on arts, ethics, literature, animals rights and the environment to libraries in remote areas in Australia. We have supported creative practitioners since 2000. The Thylazine Foundation will be CLOSED to submissions for the duration of The Goodwill Fundraiser. In the meantime feel free to enjoy the hundreds of pages of this free community resource. Thank you!
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke. -- Brenda Francis
Have you set your alarm clock yet? With just minutes to midnight for planet Earth: IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP!
As of 2007, Thylazine, The Thylazine Foundation Information and Resource website and charitable community projects have become a community based effort, which means they will need to be supported both financially and by volunteers in the creative arts community in order to continue to thrive. Planet Earth, the billions of animals that are suffering at the hands of human beings through mass extinction and flesh consumption, and the tens of thousands of children who have no food, no clean water, no medical attention or adequate means of education are the charity. As creative practitioners, we are morally obligated to evolve our consciousness and to save lives on this planet, through the ongoing development of an ethical lifestyle and personal creativity.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. -- Oscar Wilde
KIDS RADIO FOR KIDS PROGRAM (3CR Melbourne) Kids Matter and They Are Changing The Way We Experience The World
Radio for Kids is a new weekly show every Wed at 7.15am, as part of the Wed Breakfast Program on Melbourne's community radio 3CR 855AM dial. The show will make national broadcasts to community radio stations in Australia in 2008. The focus of Radio for Kids is to interview young people from primary age to their mid teens, with a belief that kids are socially aware and can often be asked questions that would be asked to adults. Kids will be interviewed about local community activities and environmental topics.
The aim of Radio for Kids is to also make links with primary and secondary schools, by training kids to produce their own community interest segments and current affairs. George and Peter from Radio for Kids want to hear from any kid who would like to contribute. All kids must be accompanied at all times by an adult family member.
Email Peter Davis about Radio for Kids at: wordsonthewire (at) (g) mail (dot) (com) or ph: 0425 805 352.
War, disease, alienation, conflict, hatred, competition. All are falling to evolution. -- Thom The World Poet
TUNE INTO THE GREEN BOX
SUPPORTING FREE CULTURE, ART & ETHICS ON THE NET
THIS WEEK'S YOUTUBE VIDEO HIT - THE SMITHS - MEAT IS MURDER
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. -- Shakespeare (from: Twelfth Night)
THE THYLAZINE FOUNDATION NOTICE BOARD "For it is in giving that we receive." -- St. Francis Of Assisi.
The Thylazine Foundation Notice Board is a Live Journal with public access created for creative artists to post news of scheduled tours and events, such as book and magazine launches, exhibition openings, announcements of prizes and awards, festivals, performances and gig guides, readings and workshops, radio and television broadcasts of creative arts, review book give-aways and the latest news from the creative arts community in Australia. The Notice Board welcomes calls for submissions from magazines, journals and publishers for Australian content from around the world. The Notice Board can also be used for posting email actions and petitions on behalf of those less fortunate in which we can all participate. We also invite inspiring stories or quotes from creative artists who are making a positive difference in the creative arts community, to their local community and to the world by the initiation of their own creative projects and charitable acts. Great idea!~!
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. -- Plato
HIGHLY EVOLVED LIFEFORM - VEGAN DINOSAUR! A few words from an 110 million-year-old plant eater from the Sahara Desert.
"For over 200 years the Australian environment has been annihilated by human cravings for animal flesh through the sheep, cattle and dairy industries. In shocking displays of unbelievable cruelty, those who operate and support these industries are responsible for mass extinction of Australian wildlife, heart-breaking mass deaths of domesticated animals in bushfire, flood and drought and the greenhouse effect. If you still eat the corpses of the murdered, then you have more than their souls to answer for. Is all this enviro-talk just more piss in a hot wind? If you're not vegan, you're not serious. It's time to E-V-O-L-V-E!"
GO VEGAN NOW AND HELP TO SAVE THE PLANET EVERY TIME YOU EAT!
Go to THE VEGAN SOCIETY (UK) for information on how your diet will save or kill the planet!
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. -- H.G. Wells (from: Utopia)
THIS WORLD NEEDS US NOW: OUR LOVE & OUR ART
The Thylazine Foundation is working in the best interests of the creative arts and the general community. As part of its ongoing committment to the promotion of creative arts and ethics, 'free' advertising space is offered to Australian artists, writers and creative people who are involved in charitable work. If we wish the community to support us, then we as creative people have to support it. - Dr. Coral Hull (Director)
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. -- Henry David Thoreau
SUSIE: A JERSEY HIEFER WITH A DIFFERENCE!
Susie is a a beautiful jersey heifer, with huge bulging dewy brown eyes that are said to melt the hardest heart. She is fortunate to be one of the many residents at Edgar's Mission Farm Animal Sanctuary in Victoria, Australia, where animals such as cows, pigs, sheep, hens, turkeys, rabbits, ducks and others can live in friendship and peace without the threat of being killed in a slaughterhouse and turning up dead on someone's dinner plate. Susie is also a cow with a difference. Born with cerebral palsy, Susie will have a more challenges ahead of her than your regular cow! As of October 2007, The Thylazine Foundation is sponsoring Susie for the rest of her natural life. We trust that this will inspire artists and writers to become acquainted with and inspired by these amazing animals! Go here to become a Best Buddy to some of Edgar's Mission's other residents. With our hearts and minds we can each help to create a paradise on Earth for ALL sentient beings. :) Note: Sadly, Susie passed away from this world on Monday 24th, 2008. Many thanks to Pam Ahern & Co. for making Susie's brief life a good one.
Go here to assist with the feeding and maintenance of The Rylstone Ten!
You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other person will have more than they have now. -- Wallace Wattles
SAY NO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY!
"It is no coincidence that many of the communities targeted for "military style intervention" are also areas that are heavily targeted for minerals exploration, particularly uranium, as well as for potential nuclear waste dumps. This includes Western Arnhem Land and Central Australia, where numerous known uranium deposits are being actively investigated by various wanna-be uranium producers." (Dr Gavin Mudd, Monash University - first published on crikey.com.au, 27th June, 2007.)
If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. -- Lila Watson, Aboriginal Australian
AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS AND WRITERS FOR THE WORLD
Urgently Wanted by the Planet Earth: YOUR IDEAS in 500 - 1000 words on how to make the world a better place. Join other Australian Artists and Writers for the World. Add your voice to the World Project. Send your writing, a photo and a 300-500 word bio to Australian Artists and Writers for the World: Email Submissions to: world (at) thylazine (dot) org Go here to see Australian Artists and Writers for the World. With our hearts, minds and creative art we can make a positive difference in the world! :)
We read to know we are not alone. -- C. S. Lewis
GOT REVIEWS? -- FREE COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFERED Want to check out what the reviewers are saying? Then why not make a nice cup of tea and -click on- to some enjoyable reading at
It's Australia's most dynamic book review website online today. It's free and they offer free book giveaways to new subscribers! :-)
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. -- Leonardo da Vinci
OVER 2,303 BOOKS & MUSIC CDS DONATED TO LIBRARIES ACROSS AUSTRALIA
The Thylazine Foundation has distributed over 2,303 hard copy books and CDs to public libraries across The Northern Territory. Our aim is to continue to purchase and donate good quality hard copy books and CDs on art, ethics and literature to libraries in remote locations of Australia. The selected material on our list aims to be positive, ethical and thought provoking and to inspire both discussion, debate and creativity. A special thank to the pictured writers, musicians and poets who contributed books and CDs in order to help get this project off the ground. If you would like see this good work continue then Click here to make a donation in 2009.
We are now aiming to purchase self-help books aimed specifically at children and teenagers, as well as books on animal issues, veganism and the environment to be donated to public and school libraries in indigenous communities and including remote locations in The Northern Territory. Yes you can help!
Our Goal for for this project is: 10,000 books Our count for 2009 is: 2,303 books! :)
Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child's eyes to the needs and rights of others. -- Dalai Lama
HELP TO PAY OFF SOME VETERINARY BILLS FOR A SMALL
DOG & CAT RESCUE GROUP IN MT DRUITT, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALA
1. Call Temora Veterinary Clinic on 02-6977-1451 with your credit card details
2. Email: Narelle Lewis at lewis (at) pawsnhooves (dot) (net) to let them know what you've paid off.
Meet SKIP. He is staying with Paws 'n' Hooves because he is a lovely big sooky boy who wouldn't kill pigs and so the cowardly pig shooters starved him and beat him up.
Paws 'n' Hooves is a small, dedicated and hard working "not for profit" animal rescue group based in the western suburbs of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. Made up of a group of extremely dedicated volunteers, Paws 'n' Hooves main objective is to save animals from certain death in various pounds and shelters in Sydney and surrounding areas. They write; 'Animals rescued from "death row" are taken to our foster carers' homes where they are treated like any family pet, until such time as a new and loving, "forever home" can be found for them. While in our care, these animals (mostly dogs and cats) are immunized, wormed, de-sexed, micro-chipped and treated for heartworm and other worms. In many cases, these poor animals have been abused, mistreated and are malnourished. Our valiant band of carers nurse them back to normalcy and good health with a lot of "TLC".'
SPECIAL APPEAL FOR 2009 - THESE LOVELY DOGS AND CATS NEED OUR HELP!
I envision a future where more of us will call ourselves artists and work together to make an art concerned with the primary issues of life. I envision a future where art is once again honored for its power to inspire, teach, transform and heal. -- Anna Halprin
HELPING MAKE A CHILD'S XMAS SPECIAL
250 HAMPERS FOR THE DISADVANTAGED FROM THE THYLAZINE FOUNDATION
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The Thylazine Foundation distributed a total 250 Xmas Gift Boxes (with 22 coming directly from the creative arts and literary community - poets! artists! writers!) to needy children and their families in Palmerston in The Northern Territory, Australia. A special thank you for your kind support for those less fortunate and to The Salvation Army in Palmerston who were great in providing a venue and time so families knew where to come in order to receive your special gift. - Dr. C.Hull
Support the Kids of the NT this Xmas Click here to make a difference in 2009.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. -- Michelangelo
AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS AND WRITERS FOR PEACE
Urgently Wanted by the Planet Earth: poems, prose and images on joy, love, peace and friendship or simply speak your mind. Join at least 135 other Australian Artists and Writers for Peace. Add your voice to the Peace Project. Email your submission artwork, prose or poem, a photo and a 300-500 word bio to: peace (at) thylazine (dot) org Go here to see Australian Artists and Writers for Peace. With our hearts, minds and creative art we can make a positive difference in the world.
I believe we are transformed and connected by the power and beauty of our creativity. -- Mel Rusnov
ART FUNDRAISER FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY PROJECT All profit from the sale of this artwork provides books to public and school libraries in remote places across The Northern Territory, Australia.
Keep culture and education in arts, ethics and literature freely accessible to the public. Support community libraries in a remote locations, indigenous communities or a disadvantaged low income area by donating a percentage of your profits to buying books for a public library. Alternatively, donate your own books and artwork! :)
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly. I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. -- Vincent Van Gogh
HELP TO FEED THE RYLSTONE COWS
THE THYLAZINE FOUNDATION - MAKE THE WORLD A SANCTUARY "If there is light in the soul, there will be peace in the world." Chinese Proverb.
The Thylazine Foundation was fortunate enough to acquire responsibility of twelve gorgeous black angus who were the last residents on an ex-beef cattle hobby farm located 4 hours inland from Sydney. Sadly, an old cow and a young steer have since passed on, but these remaining ten have survived the horrors of recent drought that covered a large portion of Australia. The Thylazine Foundation now pledges itself to the ongoing feeding, maintenance and veterinary care of the Rylstone cows; Molly, Emma, Amanda, Monica, Stevie, Maggie, Ruby, Rachel, Faith and Caliban the steer who remain on agistment on a property in Rylstone, New South Wales, Australia. Large animals like this take alot of looking after and without the ongoing efforts of The Thylazine Foundation, these gentle cows had reached their 'farm used by date' and were destined for the slaughterhouse. Now they will spend the rest of their lives in peace. Let's make the world a sanctuary!.
THE HAY APPEAL FOR 2009 - THESE LOVELY COWS NEED OUR HELP! The Thylazine Foundation spent $3100.00 in 2006, $1400.00 in 2007 and $2100.00 in 2008 on "emergency drought" hay in order to keep our lovely cows alive. Please support our continuing efforts.
Help The Thylazine Foundation to Support The Rylstone Ten Go here to make a difference in 2009.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. -- Plato
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
BLUE PEPPER - THE NEW PLACE FOR POETS AND POETRY
Calling all Poets! Blue Pepper is a place where poets and people who love poetry can post poetry, discuss poetry and the latest goings on in poetry. Instant publication and instant news for free! This website is generously maintained by Justin Lowe. Another great idea!~!
For interesting work and the latest news in poetry today! Go here to Blue Pepper!
The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in order to be free. -- Adyashanti
FREE COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR AUSTRALIAN POETS Check out PAM'S POETRY PITCH - AUSTRALIA - On offer is PAMELA`S FREE MELBOURNE POETRY GIG GUIDE 2009. Click onto the icons & Link Up! Email Pamela Mimi Sidney at poetrypitch(at)fastmail(dot)fm. (Photo by Raffaella Torresan)
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of people, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help them endure and prevail. -- William Faulkner
CHECK OUT THE "FREE CULTURE" & CONTRIBUTE YOUR OWN CREATIVE WORK!
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF DR. CORAL HULL ARE ONLINE
Dr. Coral Hull's books are now published under her own label Artesian Productions. Profit from the sale of ebooks and books assists animals & disadvantaged kids in The Northern Territory, Australia.
In 2005 Artesian Productions became the first Australian publisher to have all its books licensed under the Creative Commons open copyright scheme in support of free culture in Australia. Dr. Hull's complete works are now in the public domain for non-profit use under the Creative Common's Licence.
Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole. -- Vaclav Havel
THOM THE WORLD POET
helps to feed people in AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA through THE POETS PANTRY. The miracle is this -- the more we share, the more we have. -- Leonard Nimoy
"At our open mikes-we have a large plastic bucket-the POETS PANTRY. It is featured at spoken word venues in Austin, Texas, USA. We ask poets to bring canned goods for the homeless. We have supported AIDS SERVICES of Austin HOUSE THE HOMELESS and now the food and clothing goes to refugees at CASA MARINELLA - a refuge for undocumented migrants. The POETS PANTRY has become a community outreach project by the poetry community on behalf of those who are homeless. It has assisted homeless poets with food and clothing."
For those wishing to donate The Thylazine Foundation recommends helping out The Poets Pantry with quality vegan foods from:
Send to; THE POETS PANTRY 5003 Lark Cove, Austin, Texas, 78745 USA. Thank you!
DO YOU RUN AN AUSTRALIAN POETRY VENUE? THEN WHY NOT START UP YOUR OWN VEGAN POETS PANTRY!
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. -- Ghandi
AUSTRALIAN POETRY RESOURCES INTERNET LIBRARY
John Tranter continues in his pioneering of "free culture" on the internet through the publication of Jacket Magazine and a free literary directory of selected Australian poets: Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library. This unique project has been funded with a four-year major Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council. Professor Elizabeth Webby and Creagh Cole, from the University of Sydney in NSW, in association with CAL (the Copyright Agency Limited), and will head a team of researchers to build a permanent and wide-ranging library of poetry resources online.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. -- William S. Burroughs
FREE STUDENT ANIMAL RIGHTS & VEGAN EDUCATION KITS
Animal Rights is a popular topic of discussion and debate in hundreds of secondary and primary schools throughout Australia. These free education kits are designed for use by teachers and students discussing animal rights ethics and the veganism in the classroom. The kits are available to primary and secondary school students and teachers in the Northern Territory and remote areas of Australia. View our Education Kits here!
Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. -- Norman Cousins
YES! THIS WORLD NEEDS US: OUR LOVE & OUR ART
Click onto Say No To Animals In Petshops and assist some dedicated people who spend their time educating the public and thereby saving the lives of dogs, cats, rabbits, caged birds and other animals in Australia, who are being ruthlessly exploited by the 'pet' industry. What you learn may suprise you!
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog. -- Jeff Koons
POETS HELP THE REFUGEE ACTION COLLECTIVE
Synaptic Graffiti: Where Art meets Activism
" ... The Synaptic Graffiti Collective were formed in 2003 to blend the art of poetry with multimedia for web/CD and live performance. They have appeared in cafe/bar venues, small theatres and large auditoriums in the Brisbane/Gold Coast region in Queensland, Australia. The Collective seek to involve poets, artists, writers and musicians in web pages, CD compilations, Multimedia performances and installations. They plan a virtual take-over with personal, social and political subversions in art, poetry and music. Synaptic Graffiti is poetry, art, music, spoken word, performance, image animation and text motion presented in a multimedia and live performance format with an Edge. Over 350 creative works in a dynamic and immersive urban interface: Profits from the sale of the "SLAM CD" go to the Refugee Action Collective, Queensland ..."
Help Synaptic Graffiti Support the Refugee Action Collective
Go here to Buy Slam The Body Politik!
"Give, give, give -- what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine." -- Isabel Allende
issue 12 - just gorgeous!
Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
issue 12 - just gorgeous!
