RhiZomiC Poetry

the LAST Wednesday of every month

Presents:

Rachael Mead is a South Australian poet who has been, at various times, an archaeologist, environmental campaigner, wedding decorator and second-hand bookshop manager. She's been published in literary journals in Australia, the US, Taiwan and Ireland and she was shortlisted in the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize. She was awarded Varuna’s 2011 Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship for Poetry and her poetry collection, The Sixth Creek, has just been published by Picaro Press.

Mark Tredinnick is a celebrated poet, nature writer, essayist, and writing teacher. The winner in 2011 of the Montreal Poetry Prize and in 2012 of the Cardiff Poetry Prize, Mark is the author of Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, The Little Red Writing Book, The Road South, The Lyrebird, and eight other works of poetry and prose. His other honours include two premier’s literary awards, the Blake and the Newcastle Poetry Prizes, and the Calibre Essay Prize. In August, his poem “Light Years” placed second in the inaugural ACU Literature Prize; in October, his poem “Two or Three Days with Claude Debussy in Late October” placed third in the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Mark is the editor of Australian Love Poems 2013 (Inkerman & Blunt, August 2013). His own second collection of poems, Bluewren Cantos, will be out in November 2013 (Pitt Street Poetry); a third collection, Body Copy is due in mid 2014. And he is at work on a memoir, Reading Slowly at the End of Time. A selection of his poems in English and Chinese will appear in Macao in 2014.

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