Enjoy a post-event drink or bite and listen to joanne burns, John Tranter and Chris Edwards 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.

Joanne Burns (Australian)
joanne burns’ poetry includes numerous prose poems, short fictions and monologues. Her first book of poetry ‘Snatch’ was published in London in 1972. Since then she has published over a dozen other collections including ‘on a clear day’, ‘aerial photography’, ‘footnotes of a hammock’ and, in 2007, ‘an illustrated history of dairies’. joanne has been performing her work since the 1970s. She has been a teacher of English and creative writing. Her latest collection is ‘amphora’.

John Tranter (Australian)
John Tranter has published over 20 collections of verse. His ‘Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected’ won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for poetry in 2006, the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for poetry in 2007, the South Australian poetry award in 2008 and the South Australian Premier’s Prize for the best book in any category from 2007 and 2008. His newest collection is ‘Starlight: 150 Poems’. John is the founding editor of ‘Jacket’. He is based in Sydney.

Chris Edwards (Australian)
Chris Edwards is a Sydney-based editor, typographer and graphic designer whose poetry has appeared in a variety of Australian journals and anthologies, and online in ‘Jacket’ and ‘Poetry International’. His most recent book, ‘People of Earth’, draws from a decade’s writing to offer a compendium of “mistranslations” and collage-based poems in verse and prose. He edited Robert Adamson’s ‘Mulberry Leaves: Selected Poems 1970-2001’ and ‘Inside Out: An Autobiography’ and was an associate editor of ‘Boxkite’.

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.