THAT POETRY THING
with Willo Drummond and Kate Maxwell
Open mic
7-9pm Monday 11 November
(Doors open 6:30pm)
Smith’s Alternative, Canberra
Hear the poetry of Willo Drummond together with a performance by Kate Maxwell, and an open mic.
Willo will read from her book Moon Wrasse.
Willo Drummond lives and writes on Dharug and Gundungurra land. Her debut collection Moon Wrasse (Puncher & Wattmann, 2023), was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, commended in the Five Islands Poetry Prize for a First Book of Poetry and selected as one of 6 Australian poetry titles to feature in the annual Aesop Queer Library. Willo has been the recipient of a Career Development Grant for poetry from the Australia Council for the Arts, shortlisted for the Val Vallis Award, the ACU Prize for Poetry, the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Award, runner-up in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize and longlisted for the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize and the Grieve Writing Awards. In 2023-24 she co-edited, with poet Stuart Barnes, ‘Queering Ecopoet(h)ics’, a queer themed issue of Plumwood Mountain, an Australian and International Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics.
Kate Maxwell is a poet and short story writer who has recently moved to Canberra. She’s published widely in journals such as Cordite Poetry Review, StylusLit, Rochford Street Review, Meniscus, Skylight 47, The Galway Review, and Books Ireland. Kate’s poetry and fiction has been shortlisted in the UC Canberra Health Poetry Prize, the ACU Poetry Competition 2021 and 2023, the Liquid Amber Press Poetry Prize, the Booranga Literary Prize, and The Furphy Literary Awards 2022 and 2023 among others. Kate has published two anthologies of poetry, Never Good at Maths (Interactive Publications, 2021) and Down the Rabbit Hole (Ginninderra, 2023)
Open mic sign up on the night - 3 minutes for each performer
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