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 Young, Warren Mason and hosted by Bert Spinks plus live music by acclaimed troubadour Ben Salter and sets either side by legendary local jazz ensemble the Spike Mason Quartet.
Rebecca Young, performing at the 2020 Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Launceston. (March 2020)
Other work:
04 Sep 2003: Sarah Day’s launch of Kathryn Lomer’s ‘Extraction of Arrows’ (University of Queensland Press)
01 Dec 2003: Tim Thorne’s review of Kathryn Lomer’s ‘Extraction of Arrows’ (University of Queensland Press)
27 Feb 2014: Philomena Van Risjwick’s launch of Kathryn Lomer’s ‘Night Writing’ (University of Queensland Press)
27 May 2021: Jane Williams’ launch of Esther Ottaway’s ‘Intimate, low-voiced, delicate things’ (Puncher & Wattmann)
Kathryn Lomer, with Ray Liversidge and Nathan Curnow. (Queensland Poetry Festival, 2012)