Poetry from Agitation Hill presents LIVE in the CHAPEL but also zoomed, Helen Lucas. Friday, November 7th 6-7pm.

This reading will take place in the chapel of the Uniting Church, Castlemaine, but will also be zoomed across Australia and into the DigiWorld.

Please join us for a night of great poetry, with a 20 minute reading, QnA & encore to finish.

Helen is a local writer whose work includes poetry, short stories, and a play. Her play, Sarajevo Suite, based on interviews about women’s experiences of the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s had a successful season at La Mama and toured regionally in Victoria. Helen has collaborated with other creatives on projects. Besides other poets, she has worked with dancers, musicians, artists, and in the theatre. She has two collections of published poetry, The Nature of Things, and The Slip of Season. She also produced a collection of poetry for her Masters degree, a poetic memoir of sorts, that considers the themes of women, ageing and creativity. Her poem Heirloom, taken from this collection, won the Val Vallis Poetry Prize in 2020.

Helen established and convened the Courthouse Readings, a poetry reading held in the historic courthouse in Eltham. This reading ran for seventeen years and was funded by the Shire of Nillumbik. During that time, she established the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, also funded by the Nillumbik Council. For the tenth anniversary of the Courthouse, Helen, along with poet Meaghan Bell created a performance piece, History in the Hearing, based on their research into the historic courthouse. Helen has lived in Chewton for six years and works as a literacy teacher in a regional prison.

She is a passionate gardener and often finds inspiration while tending her garden.

$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, contact rossdonlonviking@gmail.com