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The first Poetry Night at Sappho for 2025, AVANT GAGA #71, will take place on the second Tuesday of February and features guest poets Pam Brown, Dan Hogan, Barrina South and Lucy Norton, plus an open mic section. Open mic sign-up is on the night at the venue, from 6:30pm sharp—10 readers can read for up to 2 mins each. Drinks and tapas are available at the bar. FREE entry, as ever.-------
PAM BROWN has been active in the Australian poetry scene for decades. She has published many books including Stasis Shuffle with Hunter Publishers in Brisbane in 2021 and has a new collection of poems in the works called Guess the experience. Pam lives on reclaimed swampland on Gadigal Country.
DAN HOGAN (they/them) is a working-class writer from San Remo, NSW, Australia (Awabakal and Darkinjung Country). Dan is the author of Secret Third Thing, which won the Mary Gilmore Award and Five Islands Prize, and was named one of the ‘best 25 Australian books of 2023’ by The Guardian. Dan’s work has been recognised by the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and Val Vallis Award, among others. Their work has appeared in Overland, The Stinging Fly, Meanjin, Jacobin, and elsewhere. In their spare time, Dan runs small DIY publisher Subbed In.
BARRINA SOUTH is a Barkindji artist, poet and critic. In 2023, her short story Family Tree was adapted for the stage by the Mill Theatre, Canberra. Barrina was awarded a 2024 Varuna First Nation fellowship. Her debut collection of poetry Makarra was published in September 2024 through Recent Work Press. Barrina’s first piece of writing for 2025 will be an essay in the Griffith Review.
LUCY NORTON is a storyteller living and creating on Gadigal Land. She can be found scribbling poems on scraps of paper or in her notes app—some of which eventually find a home in places like Cordite Poetry Review, Industrial Estate, Island Magazine and Red Room Poetry.
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IMAGE: Tacita Dean, Paradise (film still), 2021, with music Paradiso by Thomas Adès, 35mm colour anamorphic film, optical sound, image courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery New York, Paris and Los Angeles, © the artist.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar, 51 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia,Sydney, Australia, Pyrmont
