Join Readings’ own Ender Başkan as he pulls together poets and words for your entertainment. Join us for wine and words….

Elena Gomez lives on unceded Wurundjeri land. She is the author of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt, Body of Work, and several chapbooks and pamphlets. 

Ella Skilbeck-Porter is a poet who lives in Naarm/Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land. Her work has been published widely in journals including HEAT, Rabbit, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal and Otoliths. Her debut book of poetry and visual poetry These are Different Waters was published by Vagabond in 2023 and was shortlisted for both the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest and the Mary Gilmore Award, and was Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Award.

Ender Başkan is a poet, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books press. He is the winner of the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. His work has published in Overland, Meanjin, HEAT, Cordite, Unusual Work and Best of Australian Poems 2023, among others.

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