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).