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On the second Tuesday of November, the Poetry Night at Sappho will host guest poets Debbie Lim, Amy Crutchfield, Sarah Temporal and Brendon IJ McLeod, plus an open mic section. Tapas and drinks are available at the bar, and the Poetry Night is FREE entry.Sign up for the open mic happens on the night at the venue, from 6:30pm. 10 readers will read for up to 2 minutes each.
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DEBBIE LIM was born in Sydney and her poems have appeared regularly in Black Inc.’s Best Australian Poems series and in Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, among other anthologies. Her work has recently appeared in Island, Griffith Review, Overland, Cordite and Meanjin. She received the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize in 2022 and has been shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Her chapbook is Beastly Eye by Vagabond Press, and her first full-length collection, Bathypelagia, will be published by Cordite Books in early 2025. She lives in northern Sydney on Darramurugal land with her husband, son and a rescue cat.
AMY CRUTCHFIELD is a poet. Her work has been published in Australia, the UK and Ireland. Her first collection “The Cyprian“ (Giramondo) was published in 2023 and received the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2024.
SARAH TEMPORAL lives on Bundjalung lands in the NSW Northern Rivers. Her writing is concerned with revealing our hidden selves, and ranges from personal confessions to reclaimed fairy tales. She won the Bunker Spoken Word prize, was shortlisted for the Val Vallis Award, and a finalist three times in the Arts Queensland XYZ Prize for Excellence in Spoken Word. With a background in education, she has taught poetry to hundreds of people from ages 8 to 89, and now runs a regional arts initiative (Poets Out Loud) to empower voices of all ages. Arriving after twenty years of performing live, Tight Bindings is her first published collection.
BRENDON IJ MCLEOD writes poetry, drama, and long and short prose fiction. His poem ‘split mind’ was shortlisted for the 2023 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and his in-progress novel ‘The Rhinoceros’ was awarded a fellowship from The Writers’ Space to Varuna the National Writers’ House. His work appears or is forthcoming in Rabbit Poetry and Overland, among other venues. He is a jazz trombonist. He lives and works on Wiradyuri country.
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IMAGE: Gemma Smith, detail from 'Strangle painting', synthetic polymer paint on linen, 230 x 200 cm, 2024
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar, 51 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia,Sydney, Australia, Pyrmont
