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Join us to celebrate the launch of TIM THORNE - GREATEST HITS - POEMES 1968-2021, Selected by Lucie Thorne. READINGS CARLTON. WED 2nd OCTOBER 2024.
launched by Lauren Williams. 6.30pm.
[free entry but bookings are encouraged:
https://www.readings.com.au/events/poetry-launch-tim-thorne-greatest-hits ]
Tim Thorne [1944-2021] was a leading contemporary Australian poet. Author of sixteen collections of poetry, founder of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival and Cornford Press, Tim was a brilliant and generous polymath, mentor, activist and commentator, who has left a profound legacy and an extraordinary body of work.
Tim’s younger daughter, songwriter, musician and painter Lucie Thorne, has brought together this collection of her favourite poems spanning 53 years of Tim’s writing life. These Greatest Hits include selections from each of Tim’s books as well as some previously unpublished poems.
Published by Puncher & Wattmann, Greatest Hits will be launched in Melbourne at Readings Carlton on Wednesday 2nd October, and in Launceston on Thursday 10th Oct, at Sporties Lounge, in conjunction with the Tasmanian Poetry Festival.
“Tim Thorne is not only an original writer, he is an original thinker” Gwen Harwood
“More musical than Mallarmé with a twelve-string blues guitar, as far out as the Tasmanian wilderness, closer than country music, Tim Thorne rides the line of poetry from the page through the eye to the brain and the heart” John Tranter
“Tim Thorne has a rare gift. His poems are always unpredictable. They continually spike the reader with wit and surprise. Tim Thorne has been around for a long time, but, thankfully, never writes like it” Dorothy Porter
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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