Texts in the City: Collected Poems of Gwen Harwood

No matter how compelling a novel or a film might be, if you have to study it, there’s always the risk you’ll end up hating it. Not any more! A gift to VCE students, their teachers (and of course life-long learners) Texts in the City is a weekly exploration of the classic texts – both old and new – that appear on the VCE English reading lists.

For our brand new season of Texts in the City, we’ve asked schools to nominate which texts on the curriculum they’d most like to see discussed. By presenting speakers who are intimately familiar with each chosen work, as a writer, reviewer, publisher or performer, we’ll offer new perspectives on these classic books, creating the chance to take the obligation out of – and put the joy back into – reading for the VCE.

Sessions run at the student-friendly timeslot of 4.30pm – 5.15pm and are subsequently hosted on the Wheeler Centre website.

This week, we look at the Collected Poems of Gwen Harwood.

Presenters

Andrew McDonald

Andrew McDonald is a children’s book author and a marsupial. He is an online bookseller at Readings and was a co-judge of the Young Adult category of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2011.

Bel Schenk

Bel Schenk is the author of two poetry collections Urban Squeeze and Ambulances & Dreamers.