Exploring the Self
Experience the deeply thoughtful convergence of the political and personal in Caroline Williamson’s poetry, as she reads from her latest collection ‘Time Machines’ (Vagabond Press, 2022). Es Foong explores the strange geographies of belonging in their debut collection ‘Clot and Marrow’ (Recent Work Press, 2023). Winner of the 2022 Dorothy Porter Poetry Award and 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, Tim Loveday, will share his poetry exploring constructs of masculinity, domestic worlds and the self. And Zimbabwean writer Thabani Tshuma shares from ‘The Gospel of Unmade Creation’ (Recent Work Press, 2023) on reshaping, rebuilding and recovery.
Poets: Caroline WIlliamson, Tim Loveday, Es Foong, Thabani Tshuma
MC: Amanda Anastasi
Poetica April 2024: Exploring the Self will also be livestreamed. Livestream playback will be available for 72 hours after the show.
Access Information:
Visual rating 50%: Events are partly subtitled or include dialogue, background music and/or sounds, so d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences can have some engagement with the event.
Aural Rating 100%: Entirely sound-based with no visual elements and can be fully experienced by blind or low vision audiences.
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