Wednesday 28th November
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
6:00 – 7:30pm
$5 to pay the poets.
This is the final Featured Poets session for 2018, and we have two of Adelaide’s finest poets to see us out.
As usual the fabulous Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, snacks and beverages. Come early, stay late!
Jill Jones has published eleven books of poetry, and a number of chapbooks, including Viva the Real (UQP), Brink (Five Islands) and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann), which won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her work is represented in major anthologies including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, Contemporary Australian Poetry, The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, The Poet’s Quest for God and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. She is co-publisher, with Alison Flett, of Little Windows Press. Her poems have been translated into Chinese, French, Czech and Spanish. She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide.
Dominic Symes is a poet from Adelaide. His poetry has been published in Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Award Winning Australian Writing, Mantra (US), Coldnoon (IND), and Broadsheet (NZ). He was featured in ABR’s States of Poetry Series at the 2017 Adelaide Writers Week. He is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide and curates the monthly poetry reading series NO WAVE. His reviews and criticism have been published in Axon: Creative Explorations and Cordite. More of his work appears at http://www.domsymes.com.
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