Events
Zoom Poetry Reading
Poetry on Fire launch and poet readers
Thursday 26 NOVEMBER 2026, 7.30-9.30pm AEDT
Let’s celebrate! Hear the winners and poets with poems in the Longlist from the 2026 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize.
All these poems will be in the anthology Poetry on Fire, to be launched at the event by Nathan Curnow.
Let’s catch the spark! The judges of this year’s Prize say …individually and collectively the poems in this Anthology are indeed wonderfully, disruptively, compellingly ‘on fire.’
Come along to enjoy what promises to be a great launch, and performance of wonderful new poetry.
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Free general admission, and supporter and patron tickets available
Nathan Curnow
Nathan Curnow is a poet, playwright, spoken word performer, and past editor of Going Down Swinging. He is a recipient of three grants from Creative Australia and his work has been awarded numerous prizes over the last twenty-five years. He has taught creative writing at Federation University and toured Europe in 2018, opening the Heidelberg Literary Days Festival in Germany. An ex-lifeguard, he lives and works on the traditional lands of the Wathaurong people in Ballarat.
His poetry titles are: No Other Life But This (Five Islands, 2006); The Ghost Poetry Project (Puncher and Wattmann, 2009); RADAR (Walleah Press, 2012); The Right Wrong Notes (Flying Islands, 2015); The Apocalypse Awards (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016), and A Hill to Die On (Liquid Amber Press, 2024).
Zoom Poetry Reading
Featuring Magdalena Ball reading from Exotic Matter and Open Mic
Thursday 11 FEBRUARY 2027, 7.30-9.00pm AEDT
In Exotic Matter, Magdalena Ball gives us superb poetry of warm and clear-eyed attention deeply grounded in the body. With finely-honed language, Ball invites us to experience how, in the tragic acceleration of the Anthropocene, our personal stories and planetary narratives converse with each other. Welcoming hope beyond shame, these poems act brilliantly to slow and transform us. – Anne Elvey
Join in this special Zoom poetry event to hear Magdalena read – a must for all of us listening, reading and thinking about the insights that poetry can bring.
And Open Mic poets to hear of course. Email us at info@liquidamberpress.com.au if you would like one of the 3 minute slots.
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Free general admission, and supporter and patron tickets available
Magdalena Ball
Magdalena Ball lives on Awabakal country (Lake Macquarie) in NSW and is a novelist, poet, reviewer, interviewer, Vice President of Flying Island Poetry Community, and Managing Editor of Compulsive Reader, founded in 1998. She is a popular moderator, presenter and workshop facilitator at festivals across Australia. She has been a judge in several writing competitions including the Flying Island Manuscript prize, The Szymon (Simon) Klitenik Award for Jewish Fiction, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Poetry Book Award for the Society of Women Writers NSW. She has also featured overseas at Circle Sessions in Dublin and the Isle of Man Poetry Society.
Magdalena’s writing has appeared in an extensive list of journals and anthologies, and has won, shortlisted and longlisted in local and international awards. She is the author of two novels; Exotic Matter is her seventh poetry collection.