The FSP Featured Poets @ Halifax Cafe series returns for 2018 with two of the State’s finest and most recognised poets: Ali Cobby Eckermann and Mike Ladd.
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide
Wednesday, 30th May, 2018
6:00 – 7:30 pm.
Halifax Cafe will be open for fine food, beverages and refreshments. So come early, stay late, eat out with poets and friends.
$5 door charge to pay the poets.
Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first collection little bit long time was written in the desert and launched her literary career in 2009. In 2013, Ali toured Ireland as Australian Poetry Ambassador and won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Book Of The Year (NSW) for Ruby Moonlight, a massacre verse novel. In 2014, Ali was the inaugural recipient of the Tungkunungka Pintyanthi Fellowship at Adelaide Writers Week, and the first Aboriginal Australian writer to attend the International Writing Program at University of Iowa. In 2017, Ali received a Windham Campbell Award for Poetry from Yale University USA.
Mike Ladd was born to Australian parents in Berkeley, California in 1959, but grew up at Blackwood in the Adelaide Hills. He has published 9 books of poetry and prose, including the haibun, Karrawirra Parri: Walking the Torrens from Source to Sea. His latest collection, Invisible Mending, was published by Wakefield Press in 2016. Mike was the founding producer and editor of Poetica, ABC Radio National’s weekly poetry program, which ran from 1997 to 2015. Mike is based in Adelaide and is currently working on a radio ode to the Mallee. Earlier this year he was a guest of New Zealand’s Writers and Readers Festival in Wellington.
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