Walleah Press
 

LAUNCH SPEECHES

BLACKWOOD, Mary | CONÉSA-BOSTOCK, Christiane | KNIGHT, Karen | MCQUILKIN, Liz: The Dear Four  Robert Dessaix, Hobart. December 14th, 2025
FRY, Kathryn: To Speak of Grasses  Jean Kent, Newcastle Writers Festival, NSW. April 6th, 2025
KELLAS, Anne: Ways To Say Goodbye  Jane Williams, Launceston, Tasmania. October 7th, 2023
KELLAS, Anne: Ways To Say Goodbye  Kevin Brophy, Amber Liquid Press zoom reading. September 14th, 2023
AUSTIN, Susan: Dancing with Empty Prams Esther Ottaway, Hobart, July 7th & 8th 2023—audio
AUSTIN, Susan: Dancing with Empty Prams Sally Lingard, Brisbane, June 17th 2023—audio
WITEK, Jules; and KNIGHT, Karen: exhibition & publication Liz McQuilkin, Triabunna. Nov 12th, 2022
COLLINS, Anne: Listening to the Deep Song  Petrina Meldrum, Hobart. Nov 2022
CARBIS, Gayelene: I Have Decided To Remain Vertical  Marion May Campbell, Melbourne. 16 Oct 2022
ALLEN, Richard James: More Lies  David Adès, Australia (zoom), October 10th 2021
LEBER, Deanne: Constellations  Andrew Burke, Perth. Jul 2021
REEVES, Lyn: field of stars  Irene McGuire, Hobart. September 9th, 2019
MOSS, Ron: Broken Starfish  Lyn Reeves, Hobart. August 23, 2019
RYAN, Brendan: The lowlands of Moyne Barry Gillard, Geelong. Jul 20th, 2019
HAWTHORNE, Susan: Dark matters  Marion May Campbell, Melbourne. Oct 18th 2017
Birdsong, Edition 2,   Sarah Day, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Oct 15th 2016
WESTBURY, Deb: Winter in Stone Country  Mark O'Flynn, Varuna, NSW. Sep 4th, 2016
KELLAS, Anne: The White Room Poems  Robert Cox, Hobart, Tasmania. December 16th, 2015
McCAULEY, Shane : Trickster Andrew Lansdown, June 6th, 2015
TULLY, John: Robbed of Every Blessing. Tim Thorne, Hobart. April 15th, 2015
FROST, Zenobia: Salt and Bone  Francis Thompson, Brisbane. Sep 18th 2014
BURKE, Andrew: One Hour Seeds Another  Lyn Reeves, Hobart, July 3rd 2014
MCQUILKIN, Liz: The Nonchalant Garden  Gina Mercer, Hobart. May 29th, 2014
SCULLY, Paul: An Existential Grammar  Les Wicks, Sydney. Apr 26th 2014
THORNE, Tim: The Unspeak Poems and other verses  Giles Hugo, Hobart. March 20th, 2014
THORNE, Tim: The Unspeak Poems and other verses  Bruce Penn, Launceston. March 13th, 2014
Salt-Lick 4  Kris Hemensley, Melbourne. March 13th, 2004
LOMER, Kathryn: Night Writing  Philomena van Rijswijk, Hobart. Feb 27th 2014
GALBRAITH, Janet: Re-membering  Suvendrini Perera, Castlemaine. October 26th, 2013
SUMMERS, Paul: primitive cartography  Kristin Hannaford, Rockhampton. Aug 23rd, 2013
ALLISON, Dael: Fairweather's Raft  Cecilia White, Newcastle, December 17th 2012
AUSTIN, Susan: Undertow  Gina Mercer, Hobart, October 11th 2012.
FAGAN, Kate: First Light 
Pam Brown, Gleebooks, Sydney, NSW. May 6th 2012
MCINTOSH, Peter : Who Wrote Shakespeare's Sonnets? Rodney Croome, May 26th, 2011
SOLMAN, Stuart: In advance of our broken wings  Anne Kellas, Hobart. Mar 3rd 2011
GROVE, Simon:  Peter Gee, Hobart, Tasmania. March 1st 2011
REEVES, Lyn: Designs on the Body  Karen Knight, Hobart. February 23rd, 2011
JACKSON, Ginny : The Still Deceived  Sarah Day, Hobart. Jul 15th 2010
GUY, Molly: Reading Between the Lines  Robyn Mathison, Hobart. Nov 24th 2009
DAY, Sarah: Grass Notes  Clive Tilsley, Launceston. Oct 2nd 2009
GANDOLFO, Enza: Swimming  Helen Garner, Melbourne Writers' Festival. Aug 30th, 2009
CURNOW, Nathan: The Ghost Poetry Project  Kevin Brophy, Melbourne. Aug 2009
MATHISON, Robyn : To Be Eaten By Mice  Pete Hay, Hobart, August 27th 2009
NICHOLSON, Betty: South of the Border  Karen Knight, Hobart. 14th February, 2009
FISHER, Carolyn: The Unsuspecting Sky  Tim Thorne, Launceston. Oct 5th 2008
KNIGHT, Karen: Postcards from the Asylum  Pete Hay, Hobart, Tasmania. August, 2008
MOSS, Sue: facepack  Sarah Day, Hobart. August 15th, 2008
WELDON, Anna Maria: The Roof Milkers  Kevin Gillam, Perth. Jun 21st, 2008
WEARNE, Alan: The Australian Popular Songbook.  Pam Brown, Sydney. Apr 20th, 2008
WILLIAMS, Jane: Begging the Question  Tim Thorne, Hobart. Apr 10th, 2008
Blue Giraffe # 6  Anne Collins, Hobart. Dec 2nd 2007
FORSYTH, Stuart: Personal Taxidermy  [Kevin Brophy, Melbourne. Oct 28th 2007
ALBISTON, Jordie: Vertigo  Elizabeth Campbell, Melbourne. May 2nd 2007
BARNARD, Jenny/STRINGER, Catherine: Dancers & Dreamers Exhibition. Karen Knight, Hobart. Aug 2006
COX, Robert: Alibis, Lies and Goodbyes  Douglas Lockhart, Hobart. Aug 2006
MACROW, Peter: Oil Slick Sun  Maria Flutsch. Hobart, November 2005
Watersmeet Haiku  Martin Hawes, Hobart. Nov 9th, 2005
BARNARD, Jenny: First Blue  Tim Thorne, Launceston, October 14th 2005
SANT, Andrew: Tremors: New and Selected Poems  Stephen Edgar, Hobart. Oct 16th 2004
SANT, Andrew: The Islanders  Pete Hay, Hobart. 2003
LOMER, Kathryn: Extraction of Arrows  Sarah Day, Hobart. Sep 4th 2003
DUYKER, Edward: Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834) 
               Bob Brown, Hobart. Apr 30th 2003
ADAMSON, Ric: Vertigo  Mark O'Flynn, Varuna, NSW. July 5th 1998
DOUGAN, Lucy: Memory Shell Mark O'Flynn, Varuna, NSW. July 5th 1998
GIBIAN, Jane: The Body's Navigation  Mark O'Flynn, Varuna, NSW. July 5th 1998
JOHNSON, Judy: Wing Corrections  Mark O'Flynn, Varuna, NSW. July 5th 1998
STEWART, Alastair: Frankston 281 Mark O'Flynn, Varuna, NSW. July 5th 1998
WILLIAMS, Jane: Outside Temple Boundaries  Mark O'Flynn, Varuna, NSW. July 5th 1998
ROBERTS, Bruce: In the Church of Latter Day Consumers  Pete Hay, Hobart, Oct 12th, 1994.