Alison J. Barton will be the featured reader at Chamber Poets #91, 1pm - 4pm Woodend RSL. PLUS: Open Section and resident band Black Forest Smoke.

Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri poet writing in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). She has degrees in Professional Writing & Editing, Social Work and Gender Studies.
Themes of race relations, Aboriginal-Australian history, colonisation, gender and psychoanalytic theory are central to her poetry. Her work has been published in Australian and international poetry and literary journals including: Best of Australian Poems 2022, the Liquid Amber Prize Anthology: Poetry of Encounter, Meanjin, Overland, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Otoliths, Rabbit, Westerly Mag, StylusLit, the Mascara Literary Review Resilience Anthology, The Storms (Ireland), Poethead (Ireland), The Night Heron Barks (USA), Under Bunjil, Yarra Libraries Receipt Poetry, Bluebottle Journal and LinkBund.