Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 10 November
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
From Catullus to Shakepeare, Auden to Dickinson, poetry has long struggled to understand love. To celebrate the publication of Love Poems by Dorothy Porter, readers including Richard Gill, David Tredinnick, Alicia Sometimes, Kristin Henry, Andrea Goldsmith and Craig Sherborne will read Porter’s works alongside other great poets as they explore love’s hardships and inspirations. A night of passionate poetry brought to life on stage.
Bookings open until 4.30pm on the day of the event with tickets for sale via the Malthouse box office or at the door prior to the event. For wheelchair access, book through the Malthouse Box Office.
Featuring
Andrea Goldsmith
The novelist, Andrea Goldsmith, met Dorothy Porter in 1992 on the Victorian Women's Writers’ Train. They were together until Dorothy’s death in December, 2008. Both writers were short-listed for the 2003 Miles Franklin award ...
Craig Sherborne
Craig Sherborne is an acclaimed memoirist, novelist, poet and playwright, best known for Hoi Polloi, Muck and The Amateur Science of Love.
Craig is the Sydney-born son of Kiwi publicans. They pursued horseracing for a lifestyle and raised him as a racecourse brat. He was transfixed by the seedy glamorousness of that milieu and people’s general avoidance of earning an honest day’s living, an attitude that, as an adult, he adapted to his own patchy career as a journalist.
He began writing in his early teens for the companionship of the page, and out of a dreamy affection for artful language, but it wasn’t until the ABC produced two of his radio plays in the early 1990s, and awarded him a drama prize, that he began to write seriously.
His poems and essays have since appeared in most of Australia’s leading literary journals and anthologies, including Black Inc.’s Best Australian Essays and Best Australian Poems.
His memoir, Hoi Polloi, was published by Black Inc to critical acclaim in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Victorian and Queensland Premiers' Literary Awards and selected for the Australia Council’s Books Alive program. Muck, the sequel to Hoi Polloi, was published in 2007 and won the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Both books were published internationally.
His novel, The Amateur Science of Love was published by Text in 2011, shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Fiction, and won the triennial Melbourne Prize for Writing in 2012. He has a new novel coming out with Text next year.
Richard Gill
Richard Gill is an internationally respected music educator and conductor. He has been artistic director of OzOpera, artistic director and chief conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the adviser for the Musica Viva in Schools program. He is currently music director of Victorian Opera.
Richard has frequently conducted for Opera Australia and OzOpera, and in recent seasons has conducted Meet the Music concerts with the Sydney Symphony, Discovery concerts with the Sydney Sinfonia, the Melbourne, Canberra, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony orchestras, and the Brisbane and Melbourne premiere seasons of Richard Mills’ The Love of the Nightingale.
Richard Gill has received numerous accolades, including an Order of Australia Medal, the Bernard Heinze Award, honorary doctorates from the Edith Cowan University of Western Australia and the Australian Catholic University, the Australian Music Centre’s award for Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Composition by an individual, and the Australia Council’s Don Banks Award.
Kristin Henry
Kristin Henry is a Melbourne poet who loves connecting with a live audience. She has read and sung her poetry in many venues throughout Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 25 years.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Kristin attended over twenty schools across the southern states of the US before migrating to Australia at the age of 18. Kristin has previously published five collections of poetry and been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award.
She currently teaches advanced poetry and short story writing in the Holmesglen Institute’s Professional Writing and Editing course. All the Way Home is her first verse novel.
Alicia Sometimes
Alicia Sometimes is an Australian poet, multi-media artist and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing ...
David Tredinnick
David Tredinnick is one of Australia’s best known actors best known for his appearance on TV and the stage.
To many TV viewers David Tredinnick is best known as bar owner Simon Trader in the television series The Secret Life of Us.
As a teenager he struggled with anorexia which he covered in an essay for Meanjin in 2002. His first major role as a lead in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of Angels in America in 1993 for which he won a Green Room Award. He went on to appear on stage in The Talented Mr Ripley, Roulette, Dealer’s Choice, Strangers in the Night and Dead on Time.
On the small screen Tredinnick has made guest appearances on All Together Now, Blue Heelers, Something in the Air, State Coroner and Halifax fp (for which he was nominated for an AFI award). In 2001 he took on the role of gay bar owner Simon Trader on The Secret Life of Us and was one of the few characters to appear in all four seasons of the programme.
Tredinnick has narrated several talking books with more than fifty titles to his name. In bot 1998 and 1999 he won the Vision Australia Adult Narrator of the Year Award and in 2001 the Sanderson Young Adult Narrator of the Year.