Ekphrastic Poetry with Ali Jane Smith

Sat Feb 14 2026 at 12:00 pm to 02:45 pm UTC+11:00

Wollongong Art Gallery | Wollongong

South Coast Writers Centre
Publisher/HostSouth Coast Writers Centre
Ekphrastic Poetry with Ali Jane Smith
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Poet Ali Jane Smith leads a poetry workshop responding to the gallery exhibition "Kate Mitchell - Set States": states of mind, states of action, states of play, states of being. 

Participants will read and discuss examples of poetry that responds to both art and artist as a springboard for inspiring their own new works of poetry. This workshop will include a 30-minute exhibition tour led by gallery staff.

  • Poetry Workshop introductory talk 12:30 - 12:45
  • Gallery-Volunteer-Led Set States Exhibitions Tour 12:45 - 1:15
  • Poetry Workshop 1:15 - 2:45

This workshop is designed alongside our SCWC 2026 Poetry Award, open 2 December – 22 March 2026.

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Ali Jane Smith’s poems have been published in literary journals, including Southerly, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal and Overland. She is a Red Room Poetry and Varuna Alumni. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize and in 2016 she was one of three writers selected for the inaugural Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics program.

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Wollongong Art Gallery, 46 Burelli St, Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia, Wollongong

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