Join us for a tall glass of red and escape the cold with a showcase of award-winning poets reading their most recent works.

From stanza to slam to sonnet, you’ll be transported through the rambunctious and politically charged world of contemporary Australian poetry. Expect clicks. Expect claps. Expect cheers. Curated by Melbourne’s own Tim Loveday.

Nam Le is the author of The Boat, On David Malouf, and 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem. His work, which appears in modern classics series, has received major awards in Australia, America and Europe, and is widely translated, anthologised and taught. His poetry has been published in Paris Review, POETRY, Granta, and elsewhere.

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian poet and author of Afro-Caribbean heritage, and the author of over 14 books for children and adults, including the memoir The Hate Race, the short fiction collection Foreign Soil, and the poetry collections How Decent Folk Behave, Carrying the World, and It's the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people. She is the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.

Dominic Symes lives quietly in Naarm. He writes poems, which over the last few years have been published in Australian journals and anthologies – think Overland, Cordite, BOAP etc. Recent poems were shortlisted for the 2023 David Harold Tribe Award and won the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry. His debut collection I saw the best memes of my generation (Recent Work Press) was highly commended in the 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

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