Name: Seasonal Poets [Summer]
Start: 2026-02-16T07:30:00+11:00
End: 2026-02-16T08:30:00+11:00
Location: 131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7000

Seasonal Poets is a quarterly gathering of poetic talent, organised by Gina Mercer, Anne Collins, and Irene McGuire, and has been running for some years. At each session, three different poets are invited to share their work.
The Seasonal Poets program for the Summer reading will feature Ben Walter, Adrienne Eberhard and Esther Ottaway.
Ben Walter is a Walkley award-winning essayist, and the author of a book of short stories, What Fear Was, and the new poetry collection, Lithosphere. His poems explore the Tasmanian natural world in surprising ways.
Adrienne Eberhard has published four previous collections of poetry, Agamemnon’s Poppies (2003), awarded second place in the Anne Elder Prize and longlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Prize; Jane, Lady Franklin (2004), adapted for PoeticA, Radio National; This Woman (2011), short-listed for the 2013 Tasmania Book Prize and The Voice of Water (2019), in collaboration with artist, Sue Lovegrove. Adrienne was poetry editor of Island (2008 to 2011), and has taught poetry at UTAS.
Esther Ottaway is the winner of the $25,000 Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry in the Tasmanian Literary Awards, and holds multiple national and international shortlistings. Her poems are about family bonds, Tasmanian life, experiences of joy, and winter swimming!
Tickets are $12, and include a glass of wine or non-alcoholic drink.
You can purchase below, or on the door.
Join Ben, Adrienne, and Esther at the Afterword Café.
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