Sappho Poetry Readings: "Avant Gaga", a gala night of experimental poetry with Michael Farrell and troupe

A special evening at Sappho featuring...

MICHAEL FARRELL (Melb)
Michael grew up on a dolphin farm where he and his siblings regularly shot each other with animal tranquilizers, or so he recollects. He coedited Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets with Jill Jones. His most recent publication is thempark from Book Thug. He is working on an Australian tribute to John Ashbery. Michael won the Barrett Reid Prize for a 'radical poetry manuscript' with open sesame: an expanded version of that manuscript will be published by Giramondo in 2012. His poetry has been described as 'muppet lyricism'.


TIM WRIGHT (Melb)
is a poet living in Melbourne and a member of the recently founded school of 'relaxed proceduralism'.


ELLA O'KEEFE (Melb)
is a PhD candidate at Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts. She also makes radio, organises festivals, soaks lentils and writes poems (sometimes). She lives in Melbourne and has a terrible sense of direction.


OSCAR SCHWARTZ (Melb)
After forgetting how to speak at the age of 19, Oscar took up the study of poetry. Now, at 23, he realizes that cliches are the only valid form of communication.


ASTRID LORANGE (Syd)
is a grammar machine. She is also an occasional homebrewer and a staunch defender of opacity and ambiguity. She is writing a number of things simultaneously, mostly concerned with the constructive capacities of thinking through language.


TOM LEE (Syd)
When Tom Lee, coming along the passage, walked into the open doorway, he saw that it was raining. It was not raining very much.


NICK WHITTOCK (Melb)
started pumping iron a year ago. You can really notice the results.



UPCOMING READINGS:
Tues October 18: Judith Beveridge and Stephen Edgar (and open mic)
Tues November 8: David Malouf (and open mic)


Free!

(poster to come)