Events
Zoom Poetry Reading
Poetry of Change launch and poet readers
Thursday 21 NOVEMBER 2024, 7.30-9.30pm AEDT
Let’s celebrate. Hear the winners and poets with poems in the Longlist from the 2024 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize.
All these poems will be in the anthology Poetry of Change, to be launched at the event by the wonderful Australian poet Anne M. Carson.
Change, it turns out, is the primary characteristic of our lives. Sometimes we’re pleased to see things shift from difficult to better, sometimes we grieve the loss of what was precious, sometimes we resist the inexorable march of change, sometimes we commit to making what we see as necessary changes happen, and sometimes we’re just amazed to notice the ways in which change both small and radical might happen over the course of our lives. This year’s anthology confirms the role of poetry as such an art of ‘noticing.’
These poems gift us an astounding stylistic and thematic range. They do what powerful art always does: they offer us the consolations of insight and connection which enable us to live our lives for the better.
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
Anne M. Carson
Anne M. Carson is from Melbourne, Australia, writing on unceded Boon Wurrung Country. Her poetry has been published internationally, and widely in Australia. She was shortlisted in the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2022) and her fourth poetry book The Detective’s Chair: prose poems about fictional detectives was published by Liquid Amber Press (2023). Her PhD in Creative Writing was recently awarded (2023) and she is the recipient of the AERA Outstanding Dissertation Prize (2024).