Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 08 May
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Poetry, more than most other forms of writing, takes on a different life when lifted from the page by the voice of a reader. That’s when many of the things that make poetry poetry – the rhythms and silences – can come to the fore.
At the Moat in May, hear from local poets who use voice, as well as words, to tell their stories. With Saaro Umar, Chloe Wilson, Autumn Royal and Omar Sakr.
Featuring
Saaro Umar
Saaro Umar is an Oromo poet. Her work has appeared in Australian Poetry, Demos, Voiceworks, Expound and Scum amongst others.
Autumn Royal
Autumn is the Wheeler Centre’s Venue and Office Coordinator.
Autumn creates drama, poetry and criticism. For over a decade Autumn has worked as a sessional tutor in creative writing and literary studies and facilitated workshops for independent organisations. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Deakin University.
View ProfileChloe Wilson
Chloe Wilson is a writer based in Melbourne. Her most recent collection of poems, Not Fox Nor Axe (Hunter Contemporary Australian Poets), was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award at the Queensland Literary Awards.
Chloe's work has appeared in Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, the Southampton Review, Australian Love Poems, Australian Poetry Journal, Review of Australian Fiction, Cordite, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Going Down Swinging, Island, the Sleepers Almanac, Rabbit, Mascara and Chicago Literati, among others.
Chloe won the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry in 2012 and 2014, and has won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award, the John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers, and was joint winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize in 2016.
Omar Sakr
Omar Sakr is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite, 2017) and The Lost Arabs (UQP, 2019), which won the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have been widely published and anthologised in places such as the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Vintage Knopf, 2020), the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (MUP, 2020), Best Australian Poems (Black Inc, 2016) and Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann, 2016). Born and raised on Dharug country to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants, he lives there still. His debut novel, Son of Sin, is forthcoming with Affirm Press.