Readings, events and launches
Double Launch (Syd): Verity La’s e-book ‘Hunger’ & ‘Truth in the Cage’ by Mohammad Ali Maleki
Tuesday, July 17 6.30pm-9.30pm The Friend in Hand Hotel Glebe 58 Cowper Street, Glebe, NSW 2037 Join Verity La to launch two watershed publications: The inaugural Verity La ebook anthology 'The Hunger', and the chapbook 'Truth in the Cage' by Mohammad...
Poetry reading at IRL (Melb): Saaro Umar, Crdio, Lei Lei Kung, Frankie Hanman-Siegersma
Friday July 20, 6pm-10pm Incendium Radical Library 28D Ashley Street, West Footscray, Melbourne Free There will be readings from Saaro Umar, Lei Lei Kung, Frankie Hanman Siegersma and Tyson Campbell (Crdio). Food and drinks will also be available!...
Launch of Westerly 63.1 (Perth)
Voicebox (Perth): Rachael Petridis, Tinashe Jakwa and Danny Gunzberg
This month featuring Rachael Petridis, Tinashe Jakwa and Danny Gunzberg + open mic + fab food & drinks.
Seasonal Poets (Hobart): Liz Winfield, Christiane Conesa-Bostock and Liz McQuilkin
The next Seasonal Poets is The Winter Reading which will take place on Monday 23 July featuring readings from Liz Winfield, Christiane Conesa-Bostock and Liz MxQuilkin.
Launch (Geelong): ‘Glass Life’ by Jo Langdon
Launch of ‘Glass Life’ by Jo Langdon at Geelong Library, Sunday July 15.
The Literary Interface: 2018 Literary Studies Convention
This convention will bring together scholars working across the broad field of literary studies to discuss the literary as an interface between different forms of knowledge and processes of knowledge formation, looking at questions of how and through what means the literary is communicated, represented, negotiated, and remade.
Book Launch (Syd): ‘Calenture’ & ‘The Afterlives of Specimens’ by Lindsay Tuggle
Please join Cordite Books, University of Iowa Press and Better Read Than Dead for the launch of Lindsay Tuggle’s first collection of poetry, Calenture, and The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War, her significant contribution to Whitman research.
Site-specific Works at Avantwhatever Festival 2018
A guided walk led by Polly Stanton through site specific works by Bonny Cassidy, Melissa Deerson, Jason Kahn, Richard Kamerman and Jacqui Shelton. Meeting at the corner of Victoria St & Weigall St in Brunswick East at 12pm and lasting a little over an...
Melbourne Spoken Word Presents Brandon Wint
Saturday July 21 7pm-10.30pm Howler Melbourne 7-11 Dawson St Brunswick VIC 3056 Tickets: $18.53/$15.54 $25/$20 on the door Melbourne Spoken Word is proud to bring you Canadian spoken word artist and teaching poet, Brandon Wint. Brandon Wint will be...
Launch (Melb): ‘About the Author is Dead’ by Pascalle Burton
Cordite Books welcomes you to the launch of Pascalle Burton’s poetry collection, About the Author is Dead.
Blakwork: a reading and yarn with Alison Whittaker
Join Alison and special guests for a reading, followed by a discussion with Ellen Van Neerven about the new book, which will be for sale on the night. Presented by the Melbourne Visiting Poets Program 2018, in partnership with Australian Poetry, Melbourne Spoken Word and the RMIT non/fictionLab.
AVANT GAGA #38 (Syd): Duncan Hose, Jini Maxwell, Jake Goetz, Claire Albrecht
Tuesday July 10 7pm-10pm Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar 51 Glebe Point Rd, Sydney NSW 2037 On the second Tuesday of July, deep in the fake-dead heart of a mild Sydney winter, the poetry night at Sappho Books will host AVANT GAGA #38, with Duncan Hose,...
Sporting Poets #35: Judith Bishop, Gareth Morgan & Saaro Umar
Sunday July 15 at Compass Pizza
Bella Li at The Paperback Salon (Melb)
Wednesday 11 July, 6pm Paperback Bookshop 60 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Join Paperback Salon for an evening of reading and conversation with award-winning poet, Bella Li. The Salon Series brings together our community of writers and readers in a program...
Republic Readings (Hobart): Anne Kellas and Miriam Cooper
1 July, 3pm Republic Bar and Café, 299 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart Featured readers Anne Kellas and Miriam Cooper followed by an open mic section.
Launch (Melb): Satan Repentant by Michael Aiken
Join Michael Aiken for the Melbourne launch of his latest collection, Satan Repentant. Satan Repentant was written as part of the Australian Book Review's fellowship program, under the tutelage of David Malouf. The book is published by the UWAP Poetry...
Double Launch (Bendigo): ‘Eternal Force’ by Kerry Conway & ‘A Passing Bell’ by Paul Kane
‘Eternal Force’ by Kerry Conway & ‘A Passing Bell’ by Paul Kane to be launched at Fortuna Villa in Bendigo on July 7
Jane Hirshfield Reading: University of Melbourne
This is an opportunity to listen to the work of one of America’s most outspoken and deeply influential voices in poetry, feminism and intellectual life. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion.
Josh Stenberg: Contemporary Chinese Poetry
June 28, 3.00pm Rogers Room, Woolley Building, University of Sydney (Rm N397, Bldg A20) Josh Stenberg is talking to Sydney University’s Poetry and Poetics Network about key contemporary Chinese poets who he has been invited to translate. Translation as...