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The Little Lost Bookshop, Katoomba and Rochford Street Review have combined to run a series of poetry readings at the bookshop over winter. The first of these three readings will take place this coming at 6.30pm, Thursday night, 19 June at the bookshop, Hapenny Lane, 181 Katoomba St, Katoomba NSW 2780.
Poet and translator of poets, Peter Boyle (Melbourne, Australia, 1951) began publishing relatively late — he broke the ice at the age of 42 with his book Coming Home from the World — but since then he has not looked back, completing more than 11 poetry books and being equally prolific and generous as a translator of Spanish-language poets.
Shey has a distinguished track-record of short-listings and publications. The Hum Hearers was short-listed for the Dorothy Hewett Award, individual poems have been noticed in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Woorilla Poetry Prize and the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, among others.
Tim Loveday is a poet, writer, educator and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation, rurality and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize and the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize.
We met because of poems; I submitted three to The Burning Bush, a journal Kevin was starting with Mike Begnal, at the very start of 1999. Our love affair was bookended by January verse.
Since its founding in 1986 by Ron Pretty, Five Islands Press has been a lighthouse for poets and readers sailing in the variable waters of Australian poetry.
Mark Roberts (co-editor of Rochford Street Review) and 5 Islands Press invite you to the Sydney Launch of ‘The Office of Literary Endeavours’ To be launched by Les Wicks with Angela Stretch as your MC
on Sunday 25 May 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, Benledi House, 186 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
Multi Award winning poet and photographer, John Bennett has teamed up with well-known musician and sound engineer John Laidler to produce a story of hope and beauty, celebrating endangered wetlands reclaimed after years of industrial pollution.
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