John Mateer reads Saigyou's Cherry Tree
In this video, acclaimed poet John Mateer reads West Australian and then Japanese-inspired works as part of Six Poets Speak Softly, the first event in the Asialink Winter Writing Series 2010.
John Mateer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published five books of poems and a prose travelogue on Indonesia with Fremantle Press. He has given readings of his work at poetry festivals in Europe, Asia, Australia and South Africa. Selections of his poems have been translated into Japanese, Indonesian, Portuguese and German. Of his work The Japan Times has written: ‘Mateer’s manner and the complex resonances of his work reminded me a little of the prose of his compatriot, the Nobel-prize-winning novelist JM Coetzee. The poems are inquisitorial, ethically preoccupied and sometimes powerfully intense.’ In 2001 John won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry and Centenary Medal.
This video was recorded on Wednesday 19 May, 2010 at the Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room in the Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne.
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John Mateer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published five books of poems and a prose travelogue on Indonesia with Fremantle Press. He has given readings of his work at poetry festivals in Europe, Asia, Australia and South Africa. Selections of his poems have been translated into Japanese, Indonesian, Portuguese and German. Of his work The Japan Times has written: ‘Mateer’s manner and the complex resonances of his work reminded me a little of the prose of his compatriot, the Nobel-prize-winning novelist JM Coetzee. The poems are inquisitorial, ethically preoccupied and sometimes powerfully intense.’ In 2001 John won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry and Centenary Medal.
This video was recorded on Wednesday 19 May, 2010 at the Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room in the Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne.
Related Video:
Michael Farrell reads Genre Poem
Poet Jennifer Mackenzie
Peter Bakowski – “A cup of water, Suzhou, October 1945”
Poet Terry Jaensch on air-travel
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