Thursday, 28th November, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
A stellar duo for our final Featured Poets session for 2019: Peter Goldsworthy and Jessica Alice.
Come early, stay late. The Cafe will be open for food and beverages.
$5 cash at the door to pay the poets.
Click here for the Facebook event.
Peter Goldsworthy‘s first collection of poetry won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1982, the SA Premier’s Prize, and the Anne Elder Award. His second won the Australian Bicentennial Literary Prize for poetry in 1988, jointly with Philip Hodgins. He wrote the libretti for the Richard Mills operas, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Batavia, the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 Robert Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work. Online, his poetry can be heard at The Poetry Archive, and read at The Australian Poetry Library.
Jessica Alice is a poet, critic, broadcaster and artistic director from Melbourne living on Kaurna land in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the Director of Writers SA, the peak organisation for writing and literature in South Australia. Jessica’s writing and reviews have been published in The Guardian Australia, Metro Magazine, Overland, Junkee, VICE, The Lifted Brow, Cordite Poetry Review and Australian Poetry Journal, among others. Her poem Landmarks is published in the new anthology Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word (University of Queensland Press). https://jessicaalice.net