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$5/10Featured poets are Rosa O'Kane and Paul Magee, plus an open mic (limited slots to be filled on the night, three minutes maximum).
Rosa O’Kane grew-up in Northern Ireland She has lived in Canberra for 30 years and works as a GP
Rosa began writing poetry about ten years ago and was encouraged by her poem Hydrography of The Heart being a Highly Commended entry in the Hippocrates Poetry Prize 2014
In 2022 she was awarded the June Shenfield National Poetry Award for an emerging writer for her work titled If I Put It In A Poem
In June this year Rosa won the Wollongong Art Gallery poetry prize run by the South Coast Writers Centre for her poem On Slack Water and recently longlisted for the 2024 U.C Health Poetry prize
Her poetry has been read on radio and featured in print and online journals and on a bus!
Paul Magee’s first book of poems, Cube Root of Book (John Leonard Press: 2006), was shortlisted in the Innovation category of the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for literature. Stone Postcard (John Leonard Press: 2014), Paul’s second book of poems, was named in Australian Book Review as one of the books of the year for 2014, while Later Unearthed is forthcoming from Puncher and Wattmann in late 2024. He has also authored two ethnographic monographs: From Here to Tierra del Fuego (University of Illinois Press 2000) and Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought (Rowman and Littlefield: 2022). Paul is Professor of Poetry at the University of Canberra, where he directs the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (CCCR) and studies the philosophy, history, linguistics and ethnography of poetic composition; the relationship between art and knowledge; and new forms for facilitating the presentation of indigenous knowledge.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Smith's Alternative, 78 Alinga St, City ACT 2601, Australia,Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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