Six poets present a reading of poems responding to poems, celebrating contemporary Sydney life with humour, edge and affection. An interactive performance by the Sydney-based group Harbour City Poets, who will present poems especially written for the event together with a new chapbook for the audience. Harbour City Poets have been performing together for two years, basing their presentations on the premise that it is the poems rather than the poets that have something to say to each other. With multiple voices, the result is cumulative and cutting-edge. The performers are Margaret Bradstock, joanne burns, Kerry Leves, David Musgrave, Jenni Nixon and Louise Wakeling.
LOUISE WAKELING (LOCAL) LOUISE WAKELING is a poet and teacher. Her second collection of poetry, medium security, came out in 2002. In 2007 she was the recipient of a Department of Education poetry research award. Her third poetry collection, paragliding in a war zone, was published in 2008.
JOANNE BURNS (LOCAL) joanne burns is a writer of poetry, including prose poems, short fictions and monologues. Over a dozen collections of her work have been published. footnotes of a hammock was joint winner of the 2005 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Her most recent poetry collection, an illustrated history of dairies, was shortlisted for the 2008 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. kept busy, a CD-recording of burns reading a selection of her work, was produced by River Road Press in 2007. A new collection of her work, amphora, will be published in 2010.
KERRY LEVES (LOCAL) KERRY LEVES is a poet and critic, and a poetry reviewer for Overland. His most recent poetry collection is A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar. Other recent books are Water Roars, Illusions Burn and Territorial. Kerry won the 2000 Bauhinia (Central Queensland University) Poetry Award, and was a runner-up in the Broadway Poetry Prize 2006.
JENNI NIXON (LOCAL) JENNI NIXON is a poet and performer, whose work has appeared in numerous journals and small press anthologies including Southerly, Overland, Blue Dog, Breaking Free, Open Boat: Barbed Wire Sky and Slam the Body Politik. She published Café Boogie in 2004.
MARGARET BRADSTOCK (LOCAL) MARGARET BRADSTOCK has published four books of poetry. The most recent are The Pomelo Tree, winner of the Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and Coast. Margaret has also won the Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson awards. In 2003 she was Asialink writer-in-residence at Peking University. Margaret is co-editor of Five Bells for the Poets Union, and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales.
DAVID MUSGRAVE (LOCAL) DAVID MUSGRAVE is the publisher at Puncher & Wattmann, which he founded in 2005. A poet, novelist and critic, he has published three books. Open Water, a CD of his poetry readings, was released in 2007. In 2008 David was awarded the Josephine Ulrick and Newcastle poetry prizes as well as the Alec Bolton Prize for an unpublished poetry manuscript. His first novel will be published in 2009 as well as Grotesque Anatomies, his study of Menippean satire. His forthcoming books of poetry are Phantom Limb and The Baby Boomers. He teaches at UNSW.
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