Poetry from Agitation Hill, on Djaara Country, Castlemaine presents Claire Gaskin, Friday September 6th 6-7pm EST.

Please join us for a night of great poetry exclusively via zoom courtesy Ross Gillett, across Australia.

The Zoom Room will open about 5.45 pm for a 6 o'clock start.

Claire will read for 20 minutes, followed by the popular QnA, involving the on line audience, concluding with her encore.

Claire Gaskin lives on unceded Bunurong country. Her first full length poetry collection, a bud,
was published by John Leonard Press in 2006. It was completed in the receipt of an Australia
Council grant and shortlisted in the SA Festival Awards. Her subsequent collections are
Paperweight (2013), Eurydice Speaks (2021), Ismene’s Survivable Resistance (2021) and
Weather Event (2023). Night Heart’s Material Witness: Prose Poems was completed in 2025
assisted by a Creative Australia Grant. Gaskin is a long-term lecturer and facilitator of poetry
courses across the tertiary and community sectors. She is available for private editing 

and  mentoring at clairegaskinpoetry.com

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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 exclusively on Zoom. For the Zoom link, contact Ross Donlon at https://www.facebook.com/ross.donlon.58