Dear Friends, please join us for a night of great poetry with Kevin Brophy, Friday 1st August from Agitation Hill, Jaara Country, Castlemaine,6-7pm EST exclusively via Zoom. We are reaching across Australia and (sometimes) into the U.K.
The Zoom link will be posted at rossdonlonrossdonlonviking@gmail.com by Thursday, July 31st.
Kevin Brophy is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. He is a past winner of the Calibre Prize for an outstanding essay, and the Michel Wright Prize for poetry. His fiction has been shortlisted for the Vogel Prize and the FAW Christina Stead award. He has been patron of the Melbourne Poets Union since 2004, and he is Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne. In 2021 he was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for services to creative writing and education. He is currently director of the Five Islands Prize for a first book of poetry. His latest book is the poetry collection, An Inventory of Longing (Whitmore Press, 2025). Martin Duwell, in Australian Poetry Review, has written of this book that, ‘There is a good case for seeing Kevin Brophy as one of Australia’s most humane poets.’
Kevin will read for 20 minutes, followed by the popular QnA involving the on line audience, concluding with his encore.
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