Readings, events and launches

6pm Saturday November 16Arena Project Space2 Kerr St Fitzroy friends, enemies, comrades...sick leave is a monthly reading series and journal that celebrates new, weird, difficult and interesting writing -- whatever form it takes. sick leave is very...

The Alderman East Brunswick Friday 15 November7pm. Launch of a poetry book with Vagabond PressMelinda Bufton will host, Lisa Gorton will give a speech, Readings by other poets too —Ann Vickery, Grace Yee, Harry Reid, Chloe Wilson, and Luke Beesley.   ...

Please join us for the launch of Π.O.’s Anarchist masterpieceHEIDE  to be launched by Guy Rundleeditor, producer, scriptwriter and author of Practice6 for 6.30pmThursday 14 NovemberReadings Carlton309 Lygon StCarlton 3053Copies of Heide will be available...

Happening every dayin the Ian & Primrose Potter FoyersWednesday 23 October – Saturday 26 October 3.00pm & 4.00pm. Links Below Arts Centre Melbourne have launched a new festival for and by young and emerging artists called Future Echoes, and both...

6.30pm Wednesday October 9199 Faraday Street, Carlton RSVP AT COASIT.COM.AU  ...a book of essays on Australian and Italian poetry, and especially on the presence of Classical and Renaissance literature in contemporary Australian poetry...Does it make sense...

It's showtime next week! We're launching SOLID AIR, an anthology of contemporary Aus & Aotearoa spoken word. The book features the best voices around, and six of them will be featuring on the night (alongside editors David Stavanger & Anne-Marie Te...

Writing with Observation & Detail10am-4pm, November 2nd-3rdKyneton Mechanics Institute Enjoy a weekend in scenic central Victoria while taking your writing to the next level. This two-day workshop will be taught by professional and highly acclaimed...

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.