Events
Zoom Poetry Reading
Featuring Angela Costi reading from The Heart of the Advocate and open mic
Thursday 27 MARCH 2025, 7.30-9.00pm AEDT
With their moving narratives and precise images, Angela Costi’s poems … trace the emergence of a committed and compassionate advocate from the womb to the schoolyard to the courtroom to the page, revealing that poetry, too, can be a potent form of justice. – Simone King
Join in this special Zoom poetry event to hear Angela 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.
Book your ticket here
Free general admission, and supporter and patron tickets available
Angela Costi
Angela Costi is a poet and writer with a background in social justice, law and community arts. Her creative gatherings have been published, produced, broadcast, translated and awarded prizes. She is the author of five poetry collections. One of her plays was part of an international Japan-based collaboration. In 1995 she was awarded a grant from the National Languages and Literacy Board to study Ancient Greek Drama in Greece.
She is known as Αγγελικη Κωστη (Aggeliki Kosti) among the Cypriot Greek diaspora, which is her heritage and ancestry. She lives on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Naarm.
In person book launch
The Deepest Thing: A Poetic Memoir by EA Gleeson
Sunday 4 May 2025, 2.00 pm AEST
Join Maryanne Diamond AO in launching EA Gleeson’s wonderful new book.
Listen to Anne as she unflinchingly and tenderly tells the story of her life with her disabled sister Denise and celebrates Denise’s resilience and open heartedness.
In the troubadour tradition of this launch, Australian folk singer Suszette Herft and Anne once again combine their songs and poems of love and struggle.
EA Gleeson
EA Gleeson is a poet, essayist and speaker. This is her fourth poetry collection. She grew up on a soldier settlement farm in the Western District of Victoria on Eastern Maar Country where many of these poems are set.
She has worked in end-of-life care, public relations and education. She continues to mentor newer poets, create funerals and combine her love of travel with discovering and presenting poetry.
Maryanne Diamond AO
Maryanne Diamond AO has lived with disability all her life. She has been employed in the information technology industry, the disability sector, and in government. She has extensive experience leading organisations in Australia and internationally, including being President of the World Blind Union, Chair of the International Disability Alliance, and as a current board member of the NDIA.
Reading EA Gleeson’s poetry, I felt the same awe as when listening to parents talk about their children with disability: the protectiveness, the learnings, the frustrations and the love. I can’t recommend this book enough. These are authentic, hard-hitting, beautiful poems, written for a sister and family, but also for a community in which diversity is embraced, fully.
Jennifer Harrison
The venue
The Humffray Room (upstairs)
Ballarat Mechanics’ Institute
117-119 Sturt St, Ballarat Central, VIC 3350
All welcome
If you can join us please message Anne 0438 921 290
Zoom Poetry Reading
Featuring Anne Elvey and EA Gleeson reading from their new collections, and open mic
Thursday 10 JULY 2025, 7.30-9.00pm AEST
Intents by Anne Elvey
Delicate and attuned to the numinous in the everyday, Intents traces the vibrational and unsayable across exchanges human and more-than-human in our interconnected world. With the humility characteristic of Elvey’s work, these poems weave a moving ethics of care, a chapel of attention and interbeing utterly necessary for our times. Willo Drummond
The Deepest Thing: A Poetic Memoir by EA Gleeson
Writing about a disabled family member too often succumbs to clichés of tragedy or overcoming, or a presumptuous appropriation of their voice. The Deepest Thing is something else entirely. These translucent, searching poems live in the real world. With richly evocative imagery, they traverse decades of institutional and social prejudice to honour the improvised “dance” of a farming family and “the things that matter most” to the poet’s sister. Simply beautiful. Andy Jackson
Join in this special Zoom poetry event to hear both Annes 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. If you would like a reading spot, contact us at info@liquidamberpress.com.au and brush up your best 3 mins of poetry.
Book your ticket here
Free general admission, and supporter and patron tickets available
Anne Elvey
Anne Elvey is a poet, editor and researcher living on unceded Bunurong Country. Her full length poetry collection Leaf (Liquid Amber Press, 2022) was shortlisted in the 2023 ASLE-UKI Book Prize for the best work of creative writing with an ecological theme, She was inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal until 2020.
Behind an unkempt garden, home to wattlebirds, brushtail and ringtail possums, occasionally tawny frogmouths and bats, with visiting bees, dragonflies, little ravens and rainbow lorikeets, among others, she lives near Port Phillip Bay in Seaford, Victoria, with her partner Greg Price.
EA Gleeson
EA Gleeson is a poet, essayist and speaker. This is her fourth poetry collection. She grew up on a soldier settlement farm in the Western District of Victoria on Eastern Maar Country where many of these poems are set.
She has worked in end-of-life care, public relations and education. She continues to mentor newer poets, create funerals and combine her love of travel with discovering and presenting poetry.