Readings, events and launches

Monday 23 September - 7pm to 9pmAngela Gardner + Alan Jefferies$5 / $10 entry. Open mic Angela Gardner is an award-winning poet and visual artist. Her most recent books are The Told World (Shearsman 2014); Thing & Unthing (Vagabond 2014); and with...

Thursday 26 September 2019, 7.30pm-8.30pmat Kyneton Town Hall Claire G. Coleman believes speculative fiction is a powerful political tool. ‘It’s a genre in which there’s great scope for Aboriginal literature … It’s able to sneak politics into places people...

Friday, 4 October 2019  from 19:30-22:00 State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000   The search is on for Australia's 2019 poetry slam champion! Cheer on our finalists as they speak, scream, howl, whisper or...

Saturday September 21st 7.30pm @ Saint Charlie Taproom & Grill, 386 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, includes open mic + raffle. Entry $8-12 We present visiting UK poet Chrys Salt MBE. Chrys Salt was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in the Queen’s...

On Sunday October 20th MPU presents 'Found in Translation' a multilingual tribute to Dr Marietta Elliott-Kleerkoper @ Beer Deluxe, Fed Square. Featured poets for the event will be Jeltje Fanoy and Alex Skovron. Organised and hosted by Dorothy Poulopoulos....

An Australian Tribute to John AshberyEdited by Michael Farrell Published by TinFishFeaturingNicholas Powell | David Prater | Laurie Duggan | Louis Armand | Helen Hagemann | John Kinsella | Jeremy Balius | Craig Hallsworth | Jill Jones | Ken Bolton |...

Commencement DatesInferno: Week beginning Wednesday August 28 until October 30Paradiso: Week beginning Thursday August 29 until October 31 Venue: Dante Alighieri Society Office, 308 Drummond Street, CarltonCost: $300 for 10 sessions (1hr 30min per...

Thursday, 29 August 2019 from 18:00-20:00The Dax Centre 30 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3010RSVP: info@daxcentre.org Join us for the Book Launch of Rimbaud, An Unheard Cry. Written in poetic prose, the book is addressed to Rimbaud as if he...

Come and celebrate one of Australia's most significant poets, Francis Webb, with readings and discussion on his poetry and life. Date & Time: Saturday, 31 August 2019 2:00 – 5:00pmAddress: Chatswood Library on The Concourse, Lower Ground, 409 Victoria...

Innovative poet Jessica Wilkinson will read from her just-published third poetic biography, Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine.

Saturday, August the 31st3 PM for 3.30 startat SOUTHWEST GALLERY205 Sturt St., Adelaidersvp: by August 28th to Maddy@wakefieldpress.com.au WAKEFIELD PRESSIS TICKLED TO ANNOUNCETHE LAUNCH OF ELSEWHERE VARIATIONSby PETER BAKOWSKI and KEN...

7.00 pm for 7.30 pm. 22 August 2019. Poetry at Manning Clark House11 Tasmania Circuit Forrest ACT 2603. Other Items of interest:7.00 pm Mon 5 August. That Poetry Thing.Smith’s Alternative. Russell Erwin and Ariel Riveros.6.00 pm Mon, 12 August. Launch of...

Darwin Railway Club, Parap, NT 0820July 28th, 3pm till finish$5 entry, free for performers Hi folks, it’s that time again! The poetry slam NT heats 2019!Come down to the railway club on the 28th July and enter the competition as part of July’s Wild Words....

Tuesday, 20 August 201919:30-21:00 (7.30pm for an 8pm start.)La Mama Theatre (La Mama Courthouse)349 Drummond Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia 3053Tickets · $10-$15lamama.com.auHosted by La Mama Theatre La Mama Poetica is a night of some of the best...

Thursday, 15 August 2019 from 18:00-20:00Hill of Content Bookshop Ground 86 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000 Join us to celebrate the launch of Empirical by Lisa Gorton. The collection of poetry will be launched by the artist Rebecca...

Monday, 22 July 2019 from 18:30-19:30Readings Carlton309 Lygon Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia 3053 Luke Beesley has gathered three more wonderful poets to join us for a winter poetry reading. Multi-award-winning poet and novelist Lisa Gorton will...

Byron Bay Writers FestivalSolid Air Spoken Word ShowcaseFriday 2nd August, 8.30pm - 9.30pmTix $15 Solid Air (a spoken word anthology, UQP 2019, eds David Stavanger and Anne-Marie Te Whui) has its first launch at Byron Writers Festival 2019 - featuring...

These are the readers for Poetry at Manning Clark House this month. Fiona McIlroy / Luke Whitington / PS Cottier

Saturday 20 July2:30 pm - 4:30 pmMothership Studios18-22 Sydney StreetMarrickville  Launch of Peter Boyle's Enfolded in the wings of a great darknessLK Holt's Birth PlanNatalie Harkin's Archival-PoeticsThom Sullivan's Carte BlancheMC'd by Luke Fischer,...

Join Cuplet at The Beaumont for our first birthday celebration.