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Three feature poets! (plus a short open mic)Entry fee: $10 / $5
Tamsin Kerr spent this century living in a regenerating rainforest, sharing the song of the earth through art, music and poetry. She has a PhD on Conversations with the Bunyip, two marvellous daughters, and has read works from Bilbao to Taipei. Her collaborative creative projects include the currency of birdsong, the language of trees, and the philosophy of fungi. She returns to Canberra to enjoy the company of humans, to walk in dryer flat country, and to marvel at the wetlands.
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Samia Goudie is a Queer Aboriginal woman. She was removed from her family, who are from Githabul/Bundjalung country, and grew up on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country where she now lives and writes. Samia’s writing can be found in journals, anthologies, film, digital stories and online publications. Samia’s writing reflects her love of country, her lived experiences, and speaks to historical injustice’s and current social and political issues.
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Paul Collis is a Barkindji person, from Bourke, in far North/Western NSW.
Paul Collis is an academic and writer and works at the University of Canberra.
Paul Collis has published 2 books of poetry - Nightmares Run Like Mercury, and Wita Witalana, published by Recent Works Press and
Paul Collis is also prose author. His novel, Dancing Home won the David Uniapon Award (2016) and also The ACT Book of the Year Award (2019).
Paul Collis is grateful and happy to be living, and working, on Ngunnawal Country.
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Smith's Alternative, 76 Alinga Street,Canberra,ACT,Australia
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