Podcast appearances and mentions of peter polites

This week: two stories about matriarchs in the Mediterranean and the lingering presence of lineage in the present day.    The birth of honoured peasant In our first story, Peter Polites tells us the story of Midwife Friday who assisted in the birth of his mother in a small village in Greece.  Through the eyes of Midwife Friday, the story beautifully captures the harsh realities of village life, her resilience shaped by war and loss, and the enduring strength of a community bound by tradition and survival.   Pigeons, cats, rosegardens In our next story, a mother and her children have a heartfelt conversation about their fragmented past, trying to piece together their connection to Greece and Istanbul, Turkey. Through anecdotes passed down from their mother about their grandparents—some factual, some hearsay—coupled with exchanges of their own imagined stories, they grapple with gaps in their family history, confronting questions of identity and lineage. Sometimes… we just need a little fantasy… to bring the past back to life.   All The Best Credits Editorial Producer: Melanie Bakewell Host: Madhuraa Prakash See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back in 2015, Daniel Lavery took over Slate's long running advice column, Dear Prudence, using his sometimes snarky, often hilarious, and always insightful writing to respond to other peoples' confessions. This week he chats with Michael about how his own experiences – of transitioning, of family estrangement, of falling in love – all informed the ways he talked to those anonymous commenters on the internet.Reading list:Dear Prudence: Liberating Lessons from Slate.com's Beloved Advice Column, Daniel M. Lavery, 2023Something That May Shock and Discredit You, Daniel M. Lavery, 2020Middlemarch, George Eliot, 1871God Forgets About the Poor, Peter Polites, 2023Would that be Funny? Growing up with John Clarke, Lorin Clarke, 2023You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Or if you want to listen to them as audiobooks, you can head to the Read This reading room on Apple Books.Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterGuest: Daniel M. LaverySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back in 2015, Daniel Lavery took over Slate's long running advice column, Dear Prudence, using his sometimes snarky, often hilarious, and always insightful writing to respond to other peoples' confessions. This week he chats with Michael about how his own experiences – of transitioning, of family estrangement, of falling in love – all informed the ways he talked to those anonymous commenters on the internet. Reading list: Dear Prudence: Liberating Lessons from Slate.com's Beloved Advice Column, Daniel M. Lavery, 2023 Something That May Shock and Discredit You, Daniel M. Lavery, 2020 Middlemarch, George Eliot, 1871 God Forgets About the Poor, Peter Polites, 2023 Would that be Funny? Growing up with John Clarke, Lorin Clarke, 2023 You can find these books and all the others we mentioned at your favourite independent book store. Or if you want to listen to them as audiobooks, you can head to the Read This reading room on Apple Books. Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter Guest: Daniel M. Lavery

An excerpt from Peter's work in progress about his mother, a midwife runs through a village trying to find the person birthing.Peter Polites is a novelist from Western Sydney. He has written two queer noirs, Down the Hume and The Pillars, which won the 2020 NSW Premier's Multicultural Literary Award. He also won the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2021 he was the ACT Writer in Residence at UNSW Canberra and working on his third novel, God Forgets About the Poor.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetterAnd for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow Maeve Marsden on Twitter and Instagram. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Interviews with Dr Joshua Pocius, Dylan and Peaches from Vixen Collective and novelist Peter Polites.  Dr Joshua Pocius discusses Post AIDS Cinema, porn from an academic perspective, bio politics and health ethics.  http://joshuapocius.com/  Dylan and Peaches discuss issues for sex workers during Melbourne's Stage Four restrictions and Victoria's Sex Work Decriminalisation Review. An emergency fund has been established to help sex workers experiencing hardship during lockdown.  https://chuffed.org/project/sex-worker-support  Peter Polites discusses his life in Western Sydney and its influences on his writing and identity.  Peter is the author of Down The Hume and The Pillars.   https://twitter.com/PeterPolites  3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation.  Sovereignty was never ceded.  This episode includes discussion of adult themes.

What is ‘normal’ when it comes to our bodies? When we think of what that is, we can’t help but be influenced by the excess of images and ideas of what we should (and shouldn’t) be. Queer bodies, obesity, bodies of colour, disability, illness and more tend to fall outside the narrow scope of the body in Australian collective thinking. For Talking Writing: The Body, we spent the evening examining what it is to move through the world with a body that can be marginalised by the limiting socially devised definition of what the body should be and do. In this event, writers discussed writing their own bodies, identity and the challenges of representation in a country that is still grappling with notions of what a ‘normal’ body looks like. Author and Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre, Tracy Sorensen, chaired this panel featuring author Peter Polites, queercrip poet and historian Robin M Eames, and award-winning Filipina poet and teaching artist Eunice Andrada.

Peter Polites and Christos Tsiolkas at the Wheeler Centre For our last Double Booked Club of the year, Christos Tsiolkas was joined by Peter Polites. Tsiolkas is the internationally acclaimed author of The Slap, Barracuda and Dead Europe. He's also a celebrated playwright, critic and short-story writer. His new novel, Damascus, is perhaps his most ambitious work yet, based on the gospel and letters of St Paul and concerned with the early days of the Christian church. Peter Polites is among the most exciting new satirical voices in contemporary Australian literature. Hailing from western Sydney – a hotbed of provocative literary voices in recent years – Polites won praise for his 2017 neo-noir novel, Down the Hume. The book was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. His new novel, The Pillars, is about suburban aspiration and consumerism. Both Tsiolkas and Polites are writers of Greek descent and both are animated by questions of class, sexuality and community. At this lunchtime session, hosted by Maxine Beneba Clarke, they discuss these themes and their latest work.Support the Wheeler Centre: https://www.wheelercentre.com/support-us/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two of the Festival’s most exciting millennial authors explore how their darkly funny, profoundly moving debut works engage with the excesses of late capitalism. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s stinging satire Friday Black dissects the dehumanising forces of capitalism and racism in America. Ireland’s Caoilinn Hughes examines art, privilege and the meritocracy myth in her hilarious and anarchic Orchid and the Wasp. In conversation with Peter Polites.

Plus, Christos joins The Pillars' author Peter Polites on sexuality and class, and Garth Nix's Angel Mage.

Anna and Amanda discuss the shock Booker Prize annoucement:  Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (ep 88) and Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other were joint winners.  We have thoughts!  For starters, see this great article by Sam Jordison. Go behind the scenes at the awards dinner with Eric Karl Anderson here. Our book of the week is The Pillars by Peter Polites. It's a fast-paced story of Panos, a gay man living in Western Sydney, Basil the property developer, a mosque development, gym junkies and narcissm. Fresh, honest and raw, but we had mixed feelings. Fans of Christian Tsiolkas will love it. Next week, Anna and Annie will be reading The Memory Policy by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @amandalhayes99 Twitter: @abailliekaras  Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss Women in Translation Month, started by Meytal Radzinski and now a global event (yes, it was in August but we're celebrating it year-round ;) ). In keeping with our theme, Elena Ferrante has a new book coming out in November, translated by Ann Goldstein.  Our book of the week is Our Life in the Forest by Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Penny Hueston.  Darrieussecq is hugely successful in France and we can see why.  We loved this short novel set in the near future, with a funny, blunt narrator, spare writing and much to think about.  Recommended!   Next week, Anna and Amanda will be reading The Pillars by Peter Polites. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras , @mr_annie , @readwit Twitter: @abailliekaras , @mister_annie , @bibliobio , @read_WIT Litsy: @abailliekaras , @mr_annie

Sexual preference? Or a masked vehicle for racial and economic prejudice? Darren Lesaguis and Western Sydney Greek-Australian novelist, Peter Polites, dive in to the ways cis-gay men navigate identity and desire, including the ways language has been used to define our relationships. Peter's second novel, The Pillars, is out this month. It's a satirical interrogation of the Australian dream of home ownership over a bed of queer noir.

Critic and digital producer Patrick Carey joins Kate and Cassie as they discuss Joyce Carol Oates' My Life As a Rat and Peter Polites' The Pillars, while crime writer Sulari Gentill reveals the books that have influenced her in our newly-named segment, 'Me Myshelf and I'

Author Peter Polites remembers his visits to the Greek and Gay Group - GAGG. Peter Polites is a writer of Greek descent from Western Sydney. As part of the SWEATSHOP writers collective, Peter has written and performed his work all over Australia. Alongside SMH Best Young Novelists Luke Carman and Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Polites wrote and performed THREE JERKS - a spoken word piece about the Cronulla riots - to sellout crowds in Sydney and Melbourne. His novels Down the Hume and The Pillars are published by Hachette, and he is featured in the Queerstories book which can be ordered on Booktopia. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

These powerful new voices are reshaping the landscape and literature of Australia and influencing how we see ourselves as a community. Hear excerpts of their work and a discussion of what it is to find your voice. With Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Julie Koh, Peter Polites, Ellen van Neerven, and Benjamin Law (convenvor). Presented by NSW Writers’ Centre. Audio Credits Introduced by Shelia Pham Recorded and Produced by Zacha Rosen

In this week's special episode, we interview Peter Polites, the author of the debut novel, Down The Hume, published by Hachette Australia.

Two women who share a love of herbs, but in different places and times is just one of the topics in Kirsty Manning's wonderful debut novel 'The Midsummer Garden'.Peter Polites takes us on a noir journey through the Sydney homosexual community in 'Down the Hume'.

Katie Winten steps in for Ancika Mester for a March read of Down the Hume by Peter Polites, with Holly Isemonger and Justin Wolfers.

A compilation of short radio plays written and performed for BANKSTOWN:LIVE as part of Sydney Festival 2015. 1. CHAINSAW AND KATHAREVOUSA Writer/Performer: Peter Polites 2. I DON’T KNOW YOU Writer: Samantha Hogg Performer: Maddy Madden 3. COOTAMUNDRA GIRL Writer: Robyn… The post 2015 BANKSTOWN:LIVE “The Last Word” – Various artists appeared first on Urban Theatre Projects.