Poetry from Agitation Hill welcomes Castlemaine's prize winning poet, Annie Hunter.

Friday September 29th 6-7pm live streamed from the chapel of the Uniting Church on Agitation Hill Castlemaine. The link will be posted a day prior to the event, 20 minute reading followed by the popular QnA, concluding with her encore.

Annie no longer regrets her chequered career as a waitress, farmhand, factory worker, environmental activist, public servant and researcher. Some years ago, she began to write poetry. Or rather, it arrived like a seed that suddenly broke its dormancy, imbibed the currents of her unconscious and grew into something she could barely recognise. She dissolved into a multitude of other beings. She remembered herself when young. Although her experiments often fail, she can’t refuse the radical hospitality that poetry offers. If written from that liminal place, a poem—naked and soft-bodied as a wolf spider shedding its exoskeleton—has the capacity to unsettle us and dissolve our armour.

Annie won the MPU Prize in 2023, the ACU Prize in 2018, and was shortlisted for the New Shoots Poetry Prize in 2016. Her work has been published in the eco-poetics journal, Plumwood Mountain. She is close to completing her first poetry collection.

ACCESSIBILITY: Wheelchair access to venue,Hard-of-hearing friendly

COST: $5 at door, free online