A special Winter Seasonal Poets event on Monday 20th July, 5.30-7pm at Fullers Bookshop offers something a bit different ‒ where the Festival of Voices has the Big Sing, Seasonal Poets are having the Big Conversation.
Six poets will be performing at the Fullers fireside. Each will give a glimpse into the conversations they have with particular poems. Each will read just two poems ‒ one that they’ve conversed with and one of their own which connects to that poem.
So who will be conversing?
Anne Kellas writes award-winning poems that range ethereally and exquisitely through mother-grief to red angels. They have the elegance and tensile strength of steel bridges ‒ as well as the capacity to transport us.
Alex McKeown has his debut collection, We Leave Gaps, published by Walleah Press. Exciting ‒ Alex writes as readily in Urdu as in German or French or computer languages. He frequently and dexterously uses constrained writing techniques from other traditions.
Garth Madsen spent much of his wild youth working, bush-walking and hitch-hiking on the west coast of Tasmania. He’s published 4 books of poetry one of which, Thirteen Jesuses, was produced as a radio show for the ABC in 2007.
Ivy Alvarez writes and performs electric poetry which makes you sit up and rearrange your thinking ‒ especially about traditional sayings from the Philippines. Her most recent poetry collection is the powerful Disturbance (Seren Books). She works at Fullers.
Pam Schindler migrated from Brisbane to Blackmans Bay where she revels in the sea, clouds, trees and birds. Her 2nd book, say, a river, won the Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry in 2025. This May she was selected to take up a residency in a Tuscan village. Conversazione?
Ross Coward hales from Devonport (Tas). He had a 30 year gig as a professional cloud-watcher as your local Weather Man. Has that led to conversations with clouds and other natural phenomena through haiku and other forms of poetry, perhaps?
Tickets are $12.00 and include a glass of wine or non-alcoholic beverage. Tickets at the door or from trybooking.