First published in 2021, Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot of the year that was.
Celebrate the release of the second volume with Australian Poetry and the Wheeler Centre at an evening of conversation and poetic performances reflecting on the Australian poetic landscape and the state of poetry today. Join guest editors and award-winning poets Jeanine Leane and Judith Beveridge as they discuss their approach to curating the collection and examining the contemporary moment through poetic responses. Then, enjoy readings and performances from some of the poets featured in the 2022 anthology, including Panda Wong, Maya Hodge, Sista Zai Zanda, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Harry Reid, Peter Boyle, Ellen van Neerven, Samah Sabawi and Bonny Cassidy.
Judith Beveridge, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Ellen van Neerven and Peter Boyle will appear virtually at this event. Presented in partnership with Australian Poetry via the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 28 February
6:30 PM - 7:45 PM
Location
The Wheeler Centre and wheelercentre.com
176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000
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Featuring
Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge has published seven volumes of poetry all of which have won or been short-listed for major prizes. Her latest volume, Sun Music: New and Selected Poems (Giramondo, 2018), won the Prime Minister’s Poetry Prize in ...
Peter Boyle
Sydney-based poet Peter Boyle is the author of ten books of poetry and eight books as a translator of poetry from Spanish. His most recent collections are Ideas of Travel (Vagabond Press, 2022) and Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings (Vagabond Press, 2021) ...
Bonny Cassidy
Bonny Cassidy is an author of Irish and German descent. She lives on Dja Dja Wurrung land, in a native forest in Central Victoria. Bonny is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Chatelaine ...
Maya Hodge
Maya Hodge is a Lardil and Yangkaal emerging writer and curator based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Her practice is dedicated to disrupting colonial narratives and centering First Nations storytelling and autonomy ...
Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane belongs to the Wiradjuri people from the Murrumbidgee River in south west NSW. She is a writer poet and teacher whose prose, essays and poetry have been published widely in Australia and abroad. She is the editor ...
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a queer non-binary poet from WA. Their first collection, Clean, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and Reads Rainbows LGTBIQA+ Best Books of 2022. Mitchell is also a former Red Room Fellowship recipient.
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Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh (South East Queensland) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. Ellen’s first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award ...
Harry Reid
Harry Reid is the author of Leave Me Alone (Cordite, 2022), the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020) and a co-director of Sick Leave.
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Samah Sabawi
Dr Samah Sabawi is an award-winning playwright. In 2020 she received a Green Room Award for best writing for her play THEM, also nominated for Best Independent Theatre Ensemble, Best Independent Production and ...
Panda Wong
Panda Wong is a poet living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Working across sound, performance and the digital, her practice circles around the void. In 2022, her first chapbook angel wings dumpster fire (2022) was published by ...
Sista Zai Zanda
Sista Zai Zanda (Sista Zai/Achihera) is an Afrofuturistic Storyteller. Sista Zai was born in Harare, Zimbabwe and raised in a large extended family. Achihera is Karanga and now lives as a Black African settler on Kulin Nations ...