Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 07 October
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Wheeler Centre joins forces with Australian Poetry to celebrate the release of the latest Australian Poetry Journal with a night of readings and discussion. Coinciding with the publication of Thirty Australian Poets by the University of Queensland Press, it’s evident that Australian poetry and Australian poetry publishing are alive and well. But is there a way of getting more poetry jumping off book store shelves? Will digital publishing bring new audiences to poetry? Some of Australia’s most respected poets discuss these topics and more.
Featuring
David McCooey
David McCooey is a poet, critic and associate professor in literary studies and professional & creative writing at Deakin University.
David’s first book of poems, Blister Pack (2005), won the Mary Gilmore Award, and was short-listed for four other major awards, including The Age Book of the Year Awards. His second full-length collection, Outside, is forthcoming from Salt Publishing. He is the deputy general editor of the prize-winning Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (2009), which was published internationally as The Literature of Australia. His critical work, Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography (Cambridge University Press), won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 1996. He has written widely on Australian literature, especially Australian poetry and life writing.
Maria Takolander
Maria Takolander was born in Melbourne in 1973 to Finnish parents. She is the author of three previous poetry collections, including Ghostly Subjects (Salt, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award ...
Justin Clemens
Justin Clemens is a philosopher, translator, social critic, poet and academic. He has published three collections of poetry, The Mundiad (Black Inc, 2004), Villain (Hunter Publishers, 2009) and Me ‘n’ me trumpet (Vagabond, 2011).
Justin is primarily known for his work on French philosopher Alain Badiou as an editor, translator and scholar. He teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is Secretary of the Lacan Circle of Melbourne and art critic for the Australian magazine The Monthly.
Mark Tredinnick
Mark Tredinnick is the author of Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, The Little Red Writing Book, and eight other works. The Lyrebird (Picaro, March 2011) is his most recent book of poems, and a new collection (Body Copy) will be published in 2012.
Mark’s poem ‘The Wombat Vedas’ won the Newcastle Poetry Prize - a prize Mark won in 2007 for “Eclogues” - and his book Fire Diary landed the 2011 WA Premier’s Book Award. The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir won the Queensland Premier’s Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in 2010. Mark’s other honours include the Blake Poetry Prize, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and the Calibre Essay Prize. He penned a lyric essay in Australia’s Wild Weather (November 2011) to accompany photographs from the National Library’s archives on the weather of who we are. Mark lives, writes and teaches along the Wingecarribee River, southwest of Sydney.