The Little Lost Bookshop & Rochford Street Review Present The Katoomba Winter Poetry Readings. The July reading, on Thursday 17th July at 6.30pm, will feature Linda Adair and Mark O’Flynn along with an open mic.
LINDA ADAIR: Poet and Co-editor of Rochford Street Review, Linda Adair’s Irish ancestors arrived at Port Jackson in the 1800s, fleeing English occupation, or the crop failure which was weaponised as ‘The Great Irish Famine’. Born on Darug Country during ‘The Great Australian Silence’, Adair explores lives marginalised by History. Her debut book The Unintended Consequences of the Shattering‘was published in 2020. Her poems have been anthologised in OysterCatcher One (5 Islands Press); To End All Wars (Puncher & Wattmann); Messages from The Embers; Poetry for the Planet and her work has been published in numerous magazines including Live Encounters Poetry & Writing; FemAsia; Bluepepper; BlueNib; P76: Poetries of Place, Displacement, Diaspora & Odyssey and P76: the Sonic Poetry Festival Issue. 
MARK O’FLYNN: Mark O’Flynn’s novel ‘The Last Days of Ava Langdon’ (UQP) was short listed for the Miles Franklin Award, 2017. A collection of short stories ‘Dental Tourism’ appeared in 2020. His recent collections of poems are ‘Undercoat’, (Liquid Amber Press, 2022), and ‘Einstein’s Brain’ (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022). .
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If you wish to read in the open section could you please complete the on-line form to register https://forms.gle/uYfqGxNngR1213Kq6.
This will assist us in planning. Thee will be the opportunity to put your name down on the night if space is available.
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