Dear All, 

please join us for a night of great poetry with Angela Costi Friday, April 4th 6-7pm live in the chapel of the Uniting Church on the top of  Agitation Hill

Angela will read for 20 minutes followed by the popular QnA, concluding with her encore.

The reading will also be zoomed into Digispace across Australia and into the wide

Angela Costi is a poet and writer with a background in social justice, law and community arts. The author of six poetry collections, including Honey & Salt (Five Islands Press, shortlisted Mary Gilmore Prize 2008) and The Heart of the Advocate (Liquid Amber Press, 2025). Her chapbook Adversarial Practice (Cordite Poetry Review) was commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize. She won the University of Canberra’s Health Poetry Prize 2024. In 1995, she received a grant from the National Languages Board to study Ancient Greek drama in Greece. She is known as Αγγελική Κωστή among the Cypriot diaspora, her ancestry.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where the reading takes place, the DjaDja Warung, and pay

our respects to their elders, past, present and forthcoming

The $5 donation is welcome to help pay the poet.

A complimentary glass of wine is available courtesy of Boom Town Winery.

Thanks to the Uniting Church for making the space available.

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$5 donation. Complimentary glass of wine courtesy Boom Town.

Thus helps pay the poet for their reading. We are not funded and receive no grant.

Event is onsite in Castlemaine and will also be available via zoom. For the zoom link, check on the day prior to the event at https://www.facebook.com/ross.donlon.58