Launch of ‘The Light Café’

Ross Gillett lives on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Daylesford, Victoria. His chapbook The Sea Factory was published as part of the Five Islands Press New Poets series in 2006, and more recently The Mirror Hurlers and Swimmer in the Dust were released by Puncher and Wattmann in 2019 and 2022.

Ross is a poetry editor for Puncher & Wattmann and Liquid Amber Press, and also works as a freelance editor and poetry mentor.

A celebration of light

On 15 June 2023 Diane Fahey’s luminous new collection The Light Café was launched by Ross Gillett.

In this collection Diane Fahey engages with the worlds of nature, art and story. She brings a contemplative awareness and vibrantly perceptive eye to poems on the moon and ekphrastic evocations of specific paintings. These are poems filled with the light of what can be shown and understood, and what might be hidden in shadow, waiting to be revealed.

Watch and listen to Ross’ reflections on this wonderful book. And hear Diane read and comment on her poems

Diane Fahey lives and writes on Wadawurrung Country, and acknowledges the Traditional Custodians, past, present and future, of this place.

Diane is the author of fifteen poetry collections. Among her poetry awards are the ACT Government’s Judith Wright Prize, the Mattara Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Award. Her books have been shortlisted for Premier’s Awards, the ‘Age’ Book of the Year Award, and the John Bray Poetry Award. Her poetry has engaged with myth and fairy tales, visual art, life writing and nature writing – with a particular focus on birds, and on place. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from UWS for her study, ‘Places and Spaces of the Writing Life’.

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