Join us

for PoetryAlive @

1/52-54 Stanley Street Darlinghurst NSW 2010

9^th May at 5 – 6.15pm

Featuring 2 poets plus an MC who’ll do a spot of comedy/ satire.

JANE WILLIAMS’ most recent book is

Days Like These – New and selected poems.

She lives in Tasmania and has four previous poetry collections and a book of stories. Poetry that speaks to the heart and mind in equal measure. Ron Pretty

…moored in the palm of his hand/ this tiny paper boat impossibly detailed/ spontaneous as a blown kiss.

from Introduction to origami

Pip Smith’s first poetry collection Too Close for Comfort (SUP 2013) won the inaugural Helen Ann Bell award. A co-ordinator of the National Young Writers’ Festival in 2012, she writes across various forms and is currently engaged on a novel as a doctoral student at UWS. She recently won a scholarship to attend the Faber Writing Academy.

Go to the forest…You are 180 km/ from the ocean, but/ still you know: when/ the mountains are part/ of the drowned world, the squid/ will be at home in these deep greens…

from Too Close for Comfort

HARRY LAING will MC the event, perform some of his satirical poems, try to raise a few laughs and throw in a few political barbs.

…the heart starts   flutters and revs

perfect calibration   feel the fibrillation

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RSVP mail@stanleystreetgallery.com.au Ph: 02 9368 1142

There is a $15 entry which includes a glass of wine.