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Events Upstairs @ 49 - Launches |
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February 2012
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Friday, February 10, 2012 / 6.00pm | Launch  |
Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman
Life Without Money Building Fair and
Sustainable Economies
To be launched by Jack Mundey
Venue: gleebooks 536 Marrickville Rd Dulwich Hill
Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Secure Online BookingBuy Life Without Money Building Fair and
Sustainable Economies
 The money-based global economy is failing. The credit crunch undermined capitalism’s ability to ensure rising incomes and prosperity while market-led attempts to combat climate change are fought tooth and nail by business as environmental crises continue.
We urgently need to combat those who say there is no alternative’ to the current system, but what would an alternative look like? The contributors to Life Without Money argue that it is time radical, non-market models were taken seriously.
Life Without Money is written by high-profile activist scholars, including Harry Cleaver, Ariel Salleh and John O’Neill, making it an excellent text for political economy and environmental courses, as well as an inspiring manifesto for those who want to take action.
www.lifewithoutmoney.info
Anitra Nelson is Associate Professor in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University, Australia. She is the author of Marx’s Concept of Money (1999) and edited Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World (2007).
Frans Timmerman has been a socialist faction leader in the Australian Labor Party and political adviser to members of parliament.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012 / 3.30 for 4pm | Launch |
Elizabeth Allen
Body Language
To be launched by Elizabeth Webby
Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Secure Online Booking
 Body Language is a strong debut collection from an exciting new voice in Australian poetry. Allen writes about everyday experiences – doing a crossword, studying a bunch of flowers, watching a bird out the window – as they are refracted through the prism of the poet’s mind with all its obsessions, anxieties and peculiar sensitivities.
She writes about grief and how we repeatedly make sense of absence, with moving accuracy. Her poetry is also mindful and grounded in the body: we are reminded of the feeling of skin against freshly laundered sheets, the taste of honey, the sound of cicadas.
These poems take us from Sydney to Italy, from the psychiatrist’s office to the hairdresser’s. There is sex and love and friendship and even Kate Moss makes an appearance. Allen is a poet worth reading.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012 / 3.30 for 4pm | Launch |
Michelle Cahill, Judith Bishop & Debbie Lim
Night Birds, Aftermarks & Beastly Eye
To be launched by Peter Boyle
Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Secure Online Booking
 Night Birds:
A nocturnal theme in these poems is evident as they segue the surreal topography of dream, memory, love, foreign lands, with traces of history. The poems navigate through the unknown like the many birds present. The dangers and risks of flight are never lost to these sonnets and stanzas, yet the tone, if beleaguered, is intimate, surprisingly tender. The language is nuanced, resonant with shades, territory, skirmish, suggesting the erasures of a language made specific, where the subject is both at home and captive.
Aftermarks:
Aftermarks is a collection of poems about encounters, the impressions they leave -- and the unbridgeable interval that exists between any two beings when they meet, however intimate they are. In her poems, "Bishop speaks to and for the human impulse to strive anyway, to '[search] for tenderness', for transformation if not transcendence" (Carl Phillips on Event).
Beastly Eye:
Whether it is the reflection in a cat’s eye, a portrait of the elusive vampire squid, or the haunting plaster casts of Pompeii, central to these poems is the way a controlled image opens into larger meditations on mortality and what it is to be a creature of this world. With a quiet intensity, these poems both compel and unsettle with details that are often beautiful yet strange.
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March 2012
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 / 6.00 for 6.30pm | Launch |
Dasia Black
Letter from my Father
Published by: Brandl and Schlesinger
To be launched by Diane Armstrong
Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Secure Online Booking
 Letter from my Father is a powerful story of a young child’s struggle to survive the loss of her parents, her name and identity. Dasia Black tells of her life’s journey from her childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland to Stuttgart in liberated Germany, then to her teenage and adult years in Australia. A letter from her lost father, a message of hope for his daughter written from the abyss of destruction, provides the resilience she needs to move beyond bereavement and displacement to a purposeful life.
Dasia’s book powerfully communicates her experience of devastating events, starting with the Holocaust, and showing how each in turn and all of them cumulatively affected her. Her ability to continue seeking and finding ways to heal, to each time rebuild her shattered world, a world that is changed but not destroyed, is inspiring.’ Peter Suedfeld, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Dasia writes her life story with the knowledge of an adult mental health professional and grandmother of five, yet with the innocence of the cruelly orphaned four-year-old. The child teaches the adult. An engaging book that will reverberate with many readers.’ Paul Valent, psychiatrist, author and co-founder of the Australian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Dr Dasia Black (whose given name is Ester Hadasa) was born in Poland in 1938, survived the Nazi occupation of her country and at the end of the War escaped with her family to West Germany. At the age of twelve she arrived in Sydney, where she completed her schooling and university studies. She has lectured on Child and Adolescent Psychology, Intercultural Education and the Psychology of Racism at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney for most of her professional life. She considers her seven-year involvement in a teacher education program for indigenous students in remote communities a most rewarding part of her professional life. She is now a psychologist in private practice.
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