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On the second Tuesday of September, The Poetry Night at Sappho returns with AVANT GAGA #75, featuring guest poets Laurie Duggan, Claire Potter, Ronald Atilano, Myfanwy Williams, and the regular open mic section. Entry is FREE. There are drinks and tapas at the bar. Sign-up for the open mic is from 6:30pm on the night at the venue (10 readers can perform for up to 2 minutes each). -------
LAURIE DUGGAN was involved in the poetry worlds of Melbourne and Sydney through the 1970s and 80s. He lived in England from 2006 until 2018 when he returned to Sydney. His most recent books are A kite hangs above the border (Macau, Flying Islands, 2022), Homer Street (Giramondo 2020) and Selected Poems 1971-2017 (Shearsman 2018). The New Weather is forthcoming ... sometime.
CLAIRE POTTER is author of four poetry collections with Poets Union, Five Islands Press, Giramondo and Vagabond, as well as numerous essays, translations and chapters. She has shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, ACT Premier’s Literary Award, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, Michael Wesley Wright Award, and the Helen Anne Bell Award and her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in The New York Review of Books, Poetry Chicago, New Statesman, LRB, Jacket 2, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Cordite, amongst others, and translated into Chinese and French. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Claire lives in Sydney on unceded Gadigal Land and is Head of Writing at the Architectural Association, London.
RONALD ATILANO is a Filipino-born poet who lives on Awabakal land in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. His works have been featured in the Rabbit Poetry Journal, Westerly Magazine, Island Magazine Online, The Marrow Poetry Journal, Jacaranda Journal (UQ), and recently at the Tideland: Art + Word exhibition at the SECCA Gallery. He won first prize in the Mulga Bill Writing Award in 2022 and in the Katharine Susannah Prichard Poetry Competition Open Category in 2024. New Ordinance for the Dead, his bilingual book of poetry in English and Filipino, will be published by Flying Islands later this year.
MYFANWY WILLIAMS (she/her) is a Sydney-based queer poet and writer of Filipino Welsh heritage. Her writing explores themes of identity, ecology and intersectional justice. Her poetry and writing have been published in Plumwood Mountain Journal, About Place Journal, Wild Roof Journal, Panorama Journal of Travel and Place, Alocasia, AAWP Meniscus Literary Journal, Clarion Poetry, The Winged Moon Literary Journal, The Madrigal Literary Journal, The Crank, Crow & Crosskeys, Querencia Press and others. She was nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize and holds degrees in literature and psychology, as well as a PhD in Social Science.
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IMAGE: James Hugonin, detail of Fluctuations in Elliptical Form (I), 2016-17, oil and wax on wood, 200.7 x 178.8 cm.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar, 51 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, 51 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia, Pyrmont
