POETRY @ MANNING CLARK HOUSE

 
Carmel Summers (Canberra) Tricia Dearborn (Sydney) Marianne Boruch (USA)

'It's a superb lineup of three great poets and definitely not to be missed,' Hazel Hall, MCH Poetry Coordinator.

April 25, 2019 at 7.00 for 7.30 pm Manning Clark House 11 Tasmania Circuit Forrest ACT. 

$10 entry includes nibbles and wine and door prizes. 

Carmel Summers Canberra

Camel Summers writes technical manuals in the daytime and poetry at night and wishes it was the other way around. She's had poetry published in journals in Australia and overseas and been shortlisted for poetry prizes including The Blake, Glen Phillips, Adrian Abbott and Magic Oxygen (UK). Carmel’s latest book, The last day before snow: An invitation to travel won the 2017 ACT Writing and Publishing Award for poetry.

Tricia Dearborn Sydney

Tricia is an award-winning Sydney poet. Her third collection, Autobiochemistry, is just out from UWA Publishing. Her poetry has been featured in significant anthologies including Contemporary Australian Poetry, Australian Poetry since 1788 and The Best Australian Poems. She will be appearing at Poetry on the Move 2019 and is a judge of this year’s University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize.

Marianne Boruch USA

Marianne is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at Purdue University, West Lafayette. She’s visiting Australia as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at UC to write a series of poems on Australian wildlife. Marianne is fascinated by Australian history, especially Aboriginal stories and records of the first Western contact with the wildlife. She has published 11 collections of poetry. Her most recent works are The Anti-Grief, Copper Canyon Press, (forthcoming 2019), Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing, Copper Canyon Press, 2016 and Cadaver, Speak, Copper Canyon Press, 2014.

Thank you to poet Hazel Hall for this information and for her grand contribution to poetry. Btw photo from my garden — not Manning's :)