Cate Kennedy, Mark Tredinnick and Kim Cheng Boey are three leading poets, each working in very different ways, each part of the brilliant mosaic of contemporary Australian poetry. They read from their recent works. Chair: Susan Hayes.


Cate Kennedy (Australian)
Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel ‘The World Beneath’. She is also an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her collection ‘Dark Roots’ was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Cate is also the author of the travel memoir ‘Sing, and Don’t Cry’. Her most recent book is the poetry collection ‘The Taste of River Water’.

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.

Mark Tredinnick (Australian)
MARK TREDINNICK, winner of the Blake and Newcastle poetry prizes, is the author of 10 books including ‘Fire Diary’ and ‘The Blue Plateau’ (winner of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2010). His poems and essays are widely published in Australia and the United States. His other books include ‘The Little Red Writing Book’, ‘The Little Black Book of Business Writing’, ‘The Road South’ and ‘A Place on Earth’. His most recent chapbook is ‘The Lyrebird’.
 marktredinnick.com.au