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Join us for the fourth annual Victorian Poetry Month Gala as an electrifying lineup of poets and poetry lovers share work that sheds the boundaries of time and transports us to a future filled with possibilities.
Poetry is beyond time. It’s a way of bringing together the countless generations of humanity. It’s a means of connecting past and present. It’s a way of imagining the future. – L-Fresh the Lion, 2023 Poetry Ambassador.
What would you tell the future?
The Victorian Poetry Month Gala returns for the fourth year in 2024, featuring a selection of Australia’s finest poets tugging at the threads of alternative timelines.
A captivating evening of collective imaginings awaits. Host Bebe Oliver will be joined by Emilie Collyer, Mitch McTaggart, Elijah Money, Izzy Roberts-Orr, Thabani Tshuma, Grace Yee and Ouyang Yu, with a special musical performance by The Orbweavers.
Presented in partnership with Red Room Poetry.
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 15 August
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Tickets
$19.00
Full
$15.00
Concession
$0.00
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Location
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Additional Notes
Featuring
Bebe Oliver
A descendant of the Bardi Jawi people of the Kimberley region of north-Western Australia, Bebe Oliver is a writer and artistic leader who’s called Narrm home for ten years. Beginning his creative practice as a classical ...
Emilie Collyer
Emilie Collyer lives on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her writing is widely published in Australia and internationally. Her poetry collection Do you have anything less domestic? (Vagabond Press 2022) won the inaugural ...
Mitch McTaggart
Mitch McTaggart has been involved in media production for 15 years. While cutting his teeth directing TVCs and teaching at Deakin University, he also wrote and produced television comedy for Channel 31, then ABC (Headswapsies, 2017) ...
Elijah Money
Elijah Money is a Wiradjuri queer brotherboy who was raised on Kulin Nations where he continues to reside. He has a broad multidisciplinary creative practice which spans from visual art, writing, creative producer, workshop ...
Izzy Roberts-Orr
Izzy Roberts-Orr is a poet and arts worker based on Wurundjeri Country in regional Victoria. Her debut collection, Raw Salt (Vagabond, 2024) was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, Marten Bequest ...
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 ABC ArtWorks’ ...
Grace Yee
Grace Yee's poetry has been widely published and anthologised across Australia and internationally, and has been awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize, the Peter Steele Poetry Award, a Creative Fellowship at the State Library ...
Ouyang Yu
Ouyang Yu is an award-winning poet and novelist. His first novel, The Eastern Slope Chronicle, won the 2004 South Australian Festival Award for Innovation in Writing. His third novel, The English Class, won the 2011 NSW ...
The Orbweavers
The Orbweavers are Marita Dyson and Stuart Flanagan, multidisciplinary artists working in songwriting, music, performance and visual art, based in Narrm / Melbourne, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people ...