2.30 – 3.45pm, Sunday 5 October Tasmanian Poetry Festival Feature Reading in Hobart The Tasmanian Poetry Festival presents a special Hobart feature reading by award-winning poets: Erin Coull Susan Austin Young Dawkins Ben Walter Esther Ottaway Louise Oxley Enjoy this delightful afternoon reading by some of Tasmania’s finest poets addressing themes of nature, family, attention,…
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Fullers Poets in Conversation: Esther Ottaway & Susan Austin, 10 August
5.30pm – 6.30pm, Thursday 10 August Fullers Poets in Conversation – Esther Ottaway and Susan Austin Venue: Afterword Café, Fullers Bookshop, cnr Collins and Victoria Streets How intelligent and seemingly social women can be exhausted from undiagnosed autism/ADHD; and how some women end up travelling on unseen, gruelling medical and IVF rollercoasters to become pregnant:…
Red Room—Showcasing Tasmanian poetry and musicians. Mona, 27th August
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…
Notes from a launch: Esther Ottaway’s ‘Intimate, low-voiced, delicate things’
My take on Jane Williams’ launch of Esther Ottaway’s poetry collection ‘Intimate, low-voiced, delicate things’ in Launceston last year — please visit here. ‘I’ve been a fan of Esther Ottaway’s poetry since her first, small, powerful book Blood Universe some fourteen years ago.’ she said. ‘The long wait has been well worth it and … I suspect Intimate,…