THAT POETRY THING - Recent Work Readings
Rico Craig and Anders Villani
+ open mic
7pm Monday 15 August (Doors open 6:30pm)
Smith’s Alternative, Canberra
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Rico Craig is a writer, award-winning poet and workshop facilitator whose work melds the narrative, lyrical and cinematic. His poetry has been awarded prizes or shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize, Val Vallis Prize, Newcastle Poetry Prize, Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize and University of Canberra Poetry Prize. Bone Ink (UWAP), his first poetry collection, was winner of the 2017 Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2018. Since 2012 he has worked as Storyteller-in-Chief at the Story Factory, designing and facilitating creative writing programs for young people, and teacher development programs for adults. Our Tongues Are Songs, his second collection of poetry, was published in 2021 by Recent Work Press.
Anders Villani holds an MFA from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he received the Delbanco Prize for poetry. His first collection, Aril Wire, was released in 2018 by Five Islands Press. Anders’s poetry has appeared in many local and international publications, including Overland, Southerly, Westerly, PRISM International (Canada), and Two Cities Review (USA). PhD candidate at Monash University, assistant poetry editor of Australian Book Review, and an ABR Rising Star, he lives in Melbourne.
Anders will be appearing by zoom.