This reading will be dedicated to the memory of Kerry Leves & several of his poems will be read on the day.

An interactive performance by the Sydney-based group Harbour City Poets featuring all-new contemporary poems of the urban landscape. In this reading, interaction takes place within, as well as between, the poems presented, providing a multi-faceted overview of Sydney’s place in our hypermodern world.

Harbour City Poets have been performing together for over four years, basing their presentations on the premise that it is the poems rather than the poets that have something to say to each other. With multiple voices, the result is cumulative and cutting-edge. Each performance has different material, and themes and poetic conversations vary accordingly.

Presented by Australian Poetry.

 
David Musgrave (Australian)
David Musgrave has published three poetry collections including ‘To Thalia’, ‘On Reflection’ and a chapbook, ‘Watermark’. In 2007 a CD, ‘Open Water’, was released by the River Road series. In 2008 he won the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Alec Bolton Prize for an unpublished manuscript. ‘Phantom Limb’ was published in 2009.
 
Jenni Nixon (Australian)
Jenni Nixon is a poet and performer whose work has appeared in numerous journals and small press anthologies including ‘Southerly’, ‘Overland’, ‘Blue Dog’, ‘Breaking Free’, ‘Open Boat: Barbed Wire Sky’ and ‘Slam the Body Politik’. She published ‘Café Boogie’ in 2004 and ‘Agenda!’ in 2009.

Louise Wakeling (Australian)
Louise Wakeling is a Sydney poet and teacher. Her poetry collections include ‘Medium Security’ and ‘Paragliding in a War Zone’. In 2007, she was the recipient of a Premier’s English Teaching Award to research the teaching of poetry by poet-professors in universities and schools in the US.
 
Les Wicks (Australian)
Les Wicks is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has performed at festivals and in schools and prisons for the past 35 years. His work has been published in over 200 different magazines, anthologies and newspapers across 14 countries and in nine languages. Les conducts workshops around Australia and runs Meuse Press, which focuses on poetry outreach projects. His eighth book of poetry is ‘The Ambrosiacs’.
 
Margaret Bradstock (Australian)
Margaret Bradstock has five published books of poetry. The most recent are ‘The Pomelo Tree’, which won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize, ‘Coast’ and ‘How Like the Past’. She has also won Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson awards. She was the Asialink writer in residence at Peking University in 2003 and co-editor of ‘Five Bells’ for the Poets Union from 2001- 2010. She has edited 11 books of poetry and prose since 1983, including ‘Antipodes’.