Melbourne Art Book Fair at CAM
The annual NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair spreads its program to include a regional appearance at Castlemaine Art Museum. I’ll be selling and signing editions of my books that have engaged with visual art in different ways, from ekphrasis to colonial history. Come and look at rooms of sellers featuring comics, artists books, local publishers and more in the gorgeous exhibition spaces of CAM.
MAINfm Make/Believe Outside Broadcast!
MAINfm will be making a live outside broadcast at the Castlemaine Farmers Market to celebrate National Volunteers Week - and my show, Make/Believe, will air at its usual 3-4pm time slot from the MAINFm van. Joining me for a special, al fresco edition of the show will be Maddie Mac from the Arts Folk program. We’ll be talking shit, playing tunes, pointing at people’s dogs and getting lackeys to fetch us fried donuts. Turn up from 10am for the whole day of market and radio picnic fun. Western Reserve, Castlemaine.
The Nature Conservancy 2023 Nature Writing Prize Ceremony
I’ve been shortlisted for The Nature Conservancy’s annual essay prize. The ceremony, led by a talk from the inimitable Tim Winton, is open for bookings.
PoetiCas
Reading some recent work alongside a local open mic crowd at the Northern Arts Hotel, Midland Highway, Castlemaine.
Books at the Brewery
Andy Jackson and myself sharing poems and discussion about this year’s anthology at the Tap Room, Castlemaine.
Best of Australian Poems launch
I’ll be reading my poem, ‘Mandala’ selected by editors Jeanine Leane and Judith Beveridge for the Best of Australian Poems 2022 anthology. At the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, details and bookings here.
In Conversation with Alan Wearne to launch his 'Near Believing: Selected Monologues & Narratives’'
Alan Wearne is including a regional Victorian date on his launch tour, at the Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine. Come along to hear Alan in discussion with me, his former student and regional local, and to hear him read, sell and sign copies of his selected work from Puncher & Wattmann.
Residency
A public showing/reading of work I’ve been making alongside visual artists at Watershed Studios, Galway. I was funded to undertake this residency by Regional Arts Victoria.
Modern Women Poetry Series
To accompany its House of Ideas: Modern Women exhibition, Heide Museum has partnered with Rabbit Books to produce a collection of new poems in response to artists and artworks in the exhibition. Poets from the collection including me, will be reading over two weekends in the Museum garden. Details and bookings here.
Anthology
My poem, ‘The race’ was commissioned for a new anthology, Borderless: A Transnational Anthology of Feminist Poetry edited by Saba Vasefi, Yvette Holt and Melinda Smith. The book is published by Recent Work Press.