THAT POETRY THING
Kindred Trees, Poetry Reading
Plus open mic
7-9pm Monday 22 April (Doors open 6:30pm)
Smith’s Alternative, Canberra
FREE EVENT
As part of Tree Week the Kindred Trees project is holding its annual poetry reading with new poems by P.S Cottier, Sandra Renew, Barrina South and Lawren Wooding. Enjoy a night that fosters a love of local trees through poetry. Enjoy fabulous tree images too. Sign up for open mic on the night with your tree themed poetry or another poets tree poems. There will be some surprise appearances.
PS Cottier has written eight books of poetry, a collection of short stories and a non-fiction pamphlet about the wildlife near Parliament House. She used to edit poetry for a newspaper, and is an avid collector of garden gnomes.
Sandra Renew’s poetry has been awarded two Canberra Critics Circle Awards. One in 2023 for Apostles of Anarchy (Recent Work Press 2023), and one in 2019, with Moya Pacey ‘for their influential work in exposing Canberra women’s poetry to view through their biannual online journal for women’s poetry, Not Very Quiet 2017-2022.’ Sandra’s collection, It’s the sugar, Sugar (Recent Work Press, 2021) won the ACT Writers Notable Awards for Poetry 2021. Acting Like a Girl (Recent Work Press, 2019) was the winner of the 2020 ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Poetry, and was also shortlisted for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year. She writes on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land (Canberra) and Yuin land (Cobargo).
Barrina South is a Barkindji artist, poet and critic dedicated to writing about topics and themes affecting land, place, culture, and history. In 2023, her short story Family Tree was adapted for the stage by the Mill Theatre, Canberra and she was commissioned to write an ekphrastic poem for the National Gallery of Australia. Her work has been published in Rabbit, Authora Australia, and Kuracca a First Nations poetry anthology and the special issue of the Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, India. Barrina was an invited speaker at the 2023 Blue Mountains Writers Festival and was awarded the 2024 Varuna First Nations Fellowship. Her debut collection of poetry currently in development. Barrina is a current member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network and a Director of Us Mob Writing (UMW) who lives on Ngunnawl/Ngambri Country.
Lawren Wooding is a transfeminine writer and poet. She is one of the organisers of That Poetry Thing That Is On At Smiths Every Monday. Lawren’s day job is as a web developer, and she developed and currently administers the Kindred Trees website.
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