Emily Ballou’s sensitive and beautifully imagined verse-portrait of Charles Darwin’s life saves the man from the legend, bringing to light a fragile and deeply felt humanity, capturing the textures of his work and dreams, the noise and touch of his wife and children, his inner doubts and questions. It is the story of a man at the brink of a revolutionary theory; a man whose dogged, lifelong determination to pursue the truth, despite the cost to his health, never undermined his intense feelings of devotion to those he loved. She talks to the Red Room’s Johanna Featherstone.
EMILY BALLOU (LOCAL) EMILY BALLOU is a poet, screenwriter and one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists. In 1997 she was awarded the Judith Wright Prize for Poetry for her poem Enter. Her essays and reviews have been published in The Weekend Australian Magazine, Heat, Australian Book Review, The Australian Review and New Matilda. She has recently completed a collection of poetry - a verse portrait of Charles Darwin - for which she was awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Centre fellowship in Ireland through the Australia Council for the Arts.
JOHANNA FEATHERSTONE is the founder and Artistic Director of The Red Room Company. Her poetry has featured in journals such as Quadrant, and the Best Australian Poems. In 2006 she created a series of literary TV shows The Wordshed, in partnership with The University of Western Sydney where she is a research associate. Johanna is an honorary associate with The University of Sydney's School of Letters Arts and Media. In 2008 Johanna was awareded St James Ethics Center Vincent Fairfax Fellowship. She also hosts the “Inspired Reading” series at the Museum of Contemporary Art along with other public talks and literary events.
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