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Incandescence is a 12-years-in-the-making poetry collection about people and all their wonderful, messy, painful and joyous complexities. The poems illuminate parenting, relationships, poverty, illness and ways we cope, like yoga, writing, nature connection. Fifteen of the poems in this colleciton have been previously published across ten journals and anthologies. One poem from the manuscript won the FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize 2023 and a further four poems were commended in other laudable competitions.Susan Austin is a poet, an eco-socialist activist, and a mental health occupational therapist. She has facilitated group programs, including a creative-writing program, in a mental health clinic in Hobart. She grew up in Queensland and now lives in Hobart with her husband and two children.
Susan has had poems published in journals and magazines including the Australian Poetry Journal, Burrow, Communion, Verity La, Hecate, The Picton Grange Quarterly Review, Semper, Heretical, Famous Reporter, Blue Giraffe, Poetrix, Poetry Matters, Folk ku, Echidna Tracks and Prospect; in the newspapers Fraser Coast Chronicle, Green Left Weekly and The Tasmanian Times; in a Tasmanian young writer’s initiative The Brew.
Susan will be in conversation with Esther Ottaway, renowned and acclaimed Tasmanian poet, author of She Doesn’t Seem Austistic, winner of the 2024 Tasmanian Literary Award for Poetry.
Join Susan and Esther at the Afterword café.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7000
