October 2009
$29.95 flexibound
ISBN 978-0-9806378-0-9
From Sometimes Love Beth
by Beth Sometimes
From her new home in Central Australia, on the eve of 2008, postcard author Beth Sometimes embarked on a daring challenge: to write a postcard to somebody, everybody, anybody and anything every day for the next year.
Collected in this compendium are postcards to friends, exes, people she'd met in passing, strangers, rivers, mountains and just about anything she wanted to reach out and touch. A combination of handmade and shop-bought and weird and wacky, each contains a piece of writing of some significance; moments in time and personal reflections that create their own poetic narrative.
From Sometimes Love Beth weaves a world of rectangular emotions and cardboarderly camaraderie, where giant ideas roam miniature communiqués and the personal becomes public - just like on a postcard itself.
Praise for From Sometimes Love Beth
'Is this book a pretentious gimmick or an exciting exploration of a new form? Sometimes both, sometimes neither, but there‘s plenty to engage attention and provoke thought.' The Age
'Visual feast of handmade and shop-brought postcards with profound, bizarre and whimsical messages and delightful insights into other people‘s lives. Verdict: stamp of approval.' Herald Sun
Beth Sometimes
Beth Sometimes raced a postcard to Alice Springs - where she is now based as an artist, musician, writer and community arts mentor. She is stamped with love and addressed to creative realisation. Originally from New Zealand, Beth fell in love with the desert and has been working for six years on a range of creative collaborations with the Pitjantjatjara community at Pukatja, SA - most significantly with Big hART's Ngapartji Ngapartji project and theatre show since 2006. She writes and records her own songs under the name Beth Sometimes and the Maybes.
