Thursday, 31 October, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
This month we feature another fine line-up of Adelaide’s best: Jill Jones, Alison Flett, and Banjo James.
The Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, refreshments, coffee and more. Come early, stay late.
$5 cash at the door to pay the poets.
Click here for the Facebook event.
Jill Jones was born in Sydney and has lived in Adelaide since 2008. She has published eleven full-length poetry books including Viva the Real (UQP), short-listed, 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Breaking the Days (Whitmore Press), shortlisted, 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann) winner, 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. She teaches at the University of Adelaide, but has also worked at legal publishing, journalism, government information, public policy, second-hand bookselling and arts administration. Her poems have been widely translated. With Alison Flett, she publishes chapbooks through Little Windows Press.
Alison Flett is originally from Scotland where her poetry collection, Whit Lassyz Ur Inty, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. She has performed her work on national television and radio and at literary festivals and has been published in Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Rabbit, Southerly, StylusLit, Tincture, Westerly amongst others. She has been longlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story prize and shortlisted for the Whitmore Press Manuscript Award, The Bridport Short Story Prize (UK), The University of Canberra International Poetry Prize and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. She is an arts reviewer for InDaily, poetry editor for Transnational Literature and publisher at Little Windows Press.
Banjo James is a poet and English and Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Adelaide. His poetry has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize. You can find more in Foam:e, Overland and Rabbit Poetry Journal. He writes under his given name.