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, Jini Maxwell, Jake Goetz and Claire Albrecht, plus the usual open mic section. Drinks and tapas at the bar till late(ish), heaters, blankets, water, Glühwein, tables, chairs, smoking section, toilets—you know, the works.
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DUNCAN HOSE
is a poet, painter and scholar. His published books include Bunratty (Puncher and Wattman 2015), A Book of Sea-Shanty (Bulky News Press 2014), One Under Bacchus (Inken Publisch 2011) and Rathaus (Inken Publish 2007). He is preparing a critical treatise called Prick’d by Charm: The Pursuit of Myth in Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes.
JINI MAXWELL
makes sincere, playful work. She is one of the editors of The Lifted Brow, and co-director of National Young Writers’ Festival.
JAKE GOETZ
is from Sydney, but he has also lived in Germany, Austria and travelled about Europe, Asia and the Americas. His poems have appeared in Southerly, Cordite, Plumwood Mountain, Rabbit and Otoliths, amongst other publications. He is the editor of the small online (sometimes print) journal, Marrickville Pause. His first book, meditations with passing water, will be published by Rabbit later this year.
CLAIRE ALBRECHT
is a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle. Her current work investigates multimodal forms and the connections between poetry and photography in contemporary creative practice. Claire’s poetry appears in Cordite Poetry Review, Red Room’s The Disappearing, Overland Literary Journal and Plumwood Mountain. Her debut chapbook will be launched in October 2018.
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OPEN MIC
Sign up for the open section is open to anyone and begins at 6:45pm on the night. Up to 10 readers will fill the open section, and each can read for up to 2 mins each.
Image: Sidney Nolan, Luna Park in the moonlight, 1945, enamel paint on cardboard, 63.5 × 76.0 cm