Please join us for a night of great poetry with Esther Ottoway to begin the poetry year from Agitation Hill. Friday, 17th January 6-7pm EST    exclusively via zoom from Hobart. Esther will read for 20 mins, followed by the popular QnA involving the audience, concluding with her encore.

Esther Ottaway is a Tasmanian/lutruwita poet, editor and mentor whose poetry has won or
been shortlisted for many international and Australian prizes, including the Tom Collins,
Woorilla, MPU International, Bridport, Montreal, and Mslexia. Her second book, Intimate,
Low-voiced, Delicate Things, won both the $25,000 poetry prize and the People’s Choice
prize in the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards. She has served as guest editor of Australian
Poetry Journal, as a judge of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and as a Peer Assessor for
Arts Tasmania, and Esther curates the Women’s Poetry Oasis monthly workshop series in
Hobart/nipaluna.
Known for her powerful, emotionally honest style, Esther will read insightful poems from
her new collection about neurodivergence, She Doesn’t Seem Autistic, and poems from her
landmark national anthology of Australian disability writing, Raging Grace (co-edited with
Andy Jackson and Kerri Shying), and will also preview new poems from her book in progress,
themed around experiences of joy.