THAT POETRY THING
with Lawren Wooding and
Kavita Ivy Nanda
Open mic
7-9pm Monday 9 December
(Doors open 6:30pm)
Smith’s Alternative, Canberra
Lawren Wooding has attended poetry readings since before she was even born. She was born and raised in Canberra. She is an organiser and volunteer for That Poetry Thing and a regular on the open mic. A web developer/administrator of the Kindred Trees poetry project, her poem Mornings with You is published on the website and she performed it during 2024 Tree Week at the Kindred Trees reading. Lawren draws on her experiences as a trans woman, software engineer, and traveller, to write her poetry. She explores a range of poetry – from the light-hearted and funny poems, to deeply political works fuelled by youthful anger.
Kavita Ivy Nandan was born in New Delhi, grew up in Suva and migrated to Australia in 1987 after the Fiji military coups when she was seventeen. Canberra was her home for more than twenty-five years. She has been fortunate enough to be a recipient of the artsACT grant three times. In 2017, she moved to Sydney. Kavita is the author of a book of poems, Return to what Remains and a novel, Home after Dark. She is also the editor of a book of memoirs, Stolen Worlds: Fiji-Indian Fragments and co-editor of a book of essays, Unfinished Journeys: India File From Canberra and an anthology of poetry and short fiction, Writing the Pacific. You can find her poetry, fiction and non-fiction in a range of Australian and international literary magazines and anthologies.
Sign up for the open mic on the night with MC Sarah St Vincent Welch. It will be upstairs at Smith's Alternative.
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