Visual art has inspired a number of my written works, such as the extended poetic suite ‘In the soft light of dawn’, which was inspired by a human landscape painted by Rod Moss, ‘Anthropology: being themselves’. The poem sequence won the Northern Territory Literary Award for Poetry in 2017. [Read the poem here.] So I…
When: Monday December 4, 6pm Where: CAAS Art Shed, 10 Crispe Street, Alice Springs The debut collection of short fiction from Michael Giacometti, My Life & Other Fictions is unique. It is bold, diverse and richly lyrical. It blurs the lines between fiction and non-fiction, fate and desire, identity and history. These are stories…
When: Tuesday October 3, 5:30pm Where: Gosse St Park amphitheatre (below Spencer Hill), corner Gosse St and Lindsay Ave, Eastside
Last night at a ceremony in Darwin, my poem suite, ‘In the soft light of dawn’, was awarded the NT Writers Centre Poetry Award in the NT Literary Awards. This is second time I have won this award, having won in 2012 with a sonnet ‘kwatye scours the sand’. ‘In the soft light of dawn’…
Welcome. These pages and blog will feature new (and archived) writing by Michael Giacometti, an emerging writer based in Alice Springs, Australia. The pages will be fully active by the end of this month. He previously blogged poetry on WordPress at michaelgiceometticafepoet.
Michael Giacometti 