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Ben Walter is a Walkley Award-winning essayist, the author of the short story collection What Fear Was, and winner of the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award. A past fiction editor at Island, his writing has appeared widely in Australian journals, including Meanjin, Overland and Griffith Review, and internationally in 3:AM Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review and The Kenyon Review. Lithosphere is Ben Walter’s debut book of poetry; compelling and strange, Lithosphere explores our eccentric connections to the natural world the flora and fauna, water and wind that burst through the valleys and peaks of the lithosphere, the hard, rocky crust of the Earth that makes all life possible.
Driftwood groans towards the ocean, meadows of grass overrun a mountain, ruined teahouses serve up snow and the bushranger Rocky Whelan roars from his cave. With striking, shimmering language, Lithosphere delves into the peculiarities hidden in our relationship with the world outside.
Ben will be joined in conversation with Pete Hay, acclaimed Tasmanian writer of poetry, essays, reviews, and more.
Join Pete and Ben at The Afterword Café.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7000
