For the saver in you. For the credit card binger and the credit card cutter. For the virally vulnerable and the regular backerupper. For dangerous poems and poems that have rescued someone. For saving yourself, for safeguarding against public opinion. For rescue, preservation, reuse, salvage,and collection. Here's the call waiting for your response.

Plan to be Publsihed Poetry Workshop with Les Wicks
Dates: 23 August 2008 - 30 August 2008
Venue: NSW Writers' Centre Rozelle
Web site: http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au/html/s01_home/home.asp?dsb=27
Contact Information: (02) 9555 9757 Ambra Sancin
Details: NSWWC Members $170, Members Concession $140, Non-Members $250
This workshop will have an emphasis on the nuts and bolts of establishing a poetry audience. A key component of the two days will be traditional workshopping where three of each participant's poems are discussed (don't worry, it's not intimidating, we just work together to make a good thing a little better). But this won't be all that's covered. Participants will benefit greatly from applying insider's hints on how the poetry scene works. Poems are examined with a view to finding outlets that fit your style ... all in addition to intensive editorial feedback.

Unborn Beauty launch
Date: August 31
Venue: Festival Club Melbourne Wroters Festival
Details: Edited by Rochelle Manners, Unborn Beauty: Celebrating Pregnancy and Parenthood is a collection of frank, funny and heart-warming short stories and
poems from women who have been there.

Can poetry save the world?
Time: 4 pm
Venue: Festival Club Melbourne Writers Festival
Details: Poetry makes nothing happen. But what did Auden know? A debate on the effect poetry has upon the world with Tracie Morris, Michael Farrell, and Ian Syson. Tom Clark handles the fire extinguisher. Sponsored by Victoria University

Melbourne Writers Festival Eco-poetry
Venue: ACMI 1 Melbourne Writers Festival
Date: August 29
Time: 7 pm
With climate change and environmental degradation has the symbolism changed for Poets
Featuring: Robert Gray, Susan Hawthorne and John Jenkins?
Chair: Kevin Brophy.
Details: Sponsored by the Melbourne Poets Union Inc