Celebrate the richness and diversity of poetry on this continent with the 2023 Best of Australian Poems anthology.
Join the Wheeler Centre and Australian Poetry for an evening of poetry and performance at the launch of the 2023 Best of Australian Poems anthology. Contributors Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Jeanine Leane, Kate Lilley, Leah Muddle, Autumn Royal and Thabani Tshuma will share readings and performances from the much-anticipated collection and explore the nature of Australia’s poetry landscape over the year that was. Hosted by Australian Poetry’s Managing Editor Adalya Nash Hussein. This event will be livestreamed and available to view on this page from 6.30pm on Thursday 22 February 2024.
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker and Kate Lilley will appear virtually at this event. Unfortunately, Alex Creece is no longer able to appear at this event.
Presented in partnership with Australian Poetry via the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 22 February
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Accessibility
Accessible toilets available
Assistive Listening
Auslan interpreting available by-request
Companion tickets available
Registered Assistance Animals welcome
Wheelchair accessible
Please notify us of all access requirements when booking online so we can assist you with your visit. If you require further information, please contact ticketing@wheelercentre.com.
Additional Notes
Best of Australian Poems 2023 will be available for sale at the event.
Featuring
Adalya Nash Hussein
Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, Ibis House, Meanjin, Overland and Going Down Swinging. She has been an Emerging Writers’, Festival Melbourne Recital ...
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker is a Nyungar technologist, writer, and digital rights activist living on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. Their creative practice explores the intersection of activism, science-fiction, and technology in imagining radical futures and ushering them into existence.
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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 ...
Kate Lilley
Kate Lilley is a queer, feminist poet-scholar based in Sydney. Her most recent book of poems, Tilt, won the Victorian Premier's Award. Her earlier books, Versary and Ladylike, were shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Awards ...
Leah Muddle
Leah Muddle is an artist, poet and retail worker. In 2023, she produced new work for Australian Poetry Journal, Sick Leave and a programme initiated by the Monash Museum of Modern Art in response to the exhibition 'Renee So: Provenance'.
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Autumn Royal
Autumn Royal creates drama, poetry and criticism on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. Autumn is an arts worker and the Interviews Editor at Cordite Poetry Review. Her poetry collections include ...
Thabani Tshuma
Thabani Tshuma is a multi-award-winning Zimbabwean writer and performance poet. His work can be found in publications such as Dichotomi magazine, Next in Colour, CUBBY ART, Cordite Poetry Review, and ...