Enjoy a post-event drink or bite and listen to Toby Fitch, Kim Cheng Boey and Kate Lilley read their poetry at the contemporary and relaxed Quayside wine bar, Number One (numberonewinebar.com). Your host: Patrick Muhlen-Schulte.

Curated by the Red Room Company.

Kim Cheng Boey (Australian)
Kim Cheng Boey was born in Singapore and migrated to Australia in 1997. Three of his four poetry collections, ‘Somewhere Bound’, ‘Another Place’, ‘Days of No Name’ and ‘After the Fire’, have won important literary awards. His essays and poems have appeared in the ‘Straits Times’, ‘Irish University Review’, ‘HEAT’, ‘Meanjin’ and ‘Quarterly Literary Review Singapore’. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Newcastle. His collection of essays, ‘Between Stations’, was published in 2009.

Kate Lilley (Australian)
Kate Lilley’s first book of poems, Versary, won the Grace Leven Prize and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award. Her new chapbook, ‘Round Vienna’, is published by Vagabond Press. Her second full-length book, ‘Ladylike’, will be published by Salt this year. Kate teaches in the English department at the University of Sydney.

Toby Fitch (Australian)
Toby Fitch published a chapbook of poems called ‘Everyday Static’ in 2010 through Vagabond Press. He is currently undertaking a doctorate at the University of Sydney and his first full-length book of poems, ‘Raw Shock’, is soon to be published by Puncher & Wattman. He was born in London and raised in Sydney.

Patrick Muhlen-Schulte (Australian)
Patrick Muhlen-Schulte has worked as a political advisor for a decade and has been a key contributor to the successful Shanghai Literary Festival.