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The Point of Poetry
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Sat 23 Mar 3:30 PM
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Andy Jackson heads up a conversation with Will Cox, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Natalie D-Napoleon about how poetry, with its distillation of language, can illuminate our lives, reveal truths and help us be together.
Will Cox is a Tasmanian-born, Naarm-based writer. His self-published experimental novella Hyacinth came out in 2023 to acclaim, and his short fiction has appeared in New Australian Fiction, The Saturday Paper, Island, Slow Canoe, Verge, Visible Ink and other journals. He also works as an arts journalist for The Age.
Maxine Beneba Clarke's work includes the fiction collection Foreign Soil, memoir The Hate Race, children's picturebook The Patchwork Bike and poetry collections How Decent Folk Behave and It's the Sound of the Thing: 101 new poems for young people. She is Poet in Residence at Melbourne University.
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is a poet, songwriter and educator from Walyalup/Fremantle. She’s the winner of the 2018 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and has released two books of poetry, First Blood and If There is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears. She’s currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Edith Cowan University.
Andy Jackson is a poet, lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne, Patron of Writers Victoria, and an editor for disability poetry journal Sunde Andy's latest poetry collection is Human Looking, which won the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry.
Will Cox is a Tasmanian-born, Naarm-based writer. His self-published experimental novella Hyacinth came out in 2023 to acclaim, and his short fiction has appeared in New Australian Fiction, The Saturday Paper, Island, Slow Canoe, Verge, Visible Ink and other journals. He also works as an arts journalist for The Age.
Maxine Beneba Clarke's work includes the fiction collection Foreign Soil, memoir The Hate Race, children's picturebook The Patchwork Bike and poetry collections How Decent Folk Behave and It's the Sound of the Thing: 101 new poems for young people. She is Poet in Residence at Melbourne University.
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is a poet, songwriter and educator from Walyalup/Fremantle. She’s the winner of the 2018 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and has released two books of poetry, First Blood and If There is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears. She’s currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Edith Cowan University.
Andy Jackson is a poet, lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne, Patron of Writers Victoria, and an editor for disability poetry journal Sunde Andy's latest poetry collection is Human Looking, which won the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry.
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