Red Room Poetry Month features an afternoon of free entertainment at Mona in Hobart, Saturday 27th August at 1-2.15pm. Come for the art, the architecture, the aesthetic, stay for the poetry. In partnership with MONA, come along to see/hear/feel some of Tasmania’s finest wordsmiths and spoken word artists including Esther Ottaway, Rebecca Young, Rohan King, Kathryn Lomer, Damon…
Day: August 22, 2022
Vale David Ireland
Saddened to learn of David Ireland’s death last month. He was awarded the Miles Franklin Award on three occasions, for his novels ‘The Unknown Industrial Prisoner’ (1971), ‘The Glass Canoe’ (1976), and ‘For a Woman of the Future’ (1979). Professor Van Ikin penned a farewell to Ireland at ‘The Conversation’, including his recall of an…