Hello everyone! We've got a gig coming up this weekend that is just chockers, full of everything you might want from a poetry gig. First up, we have the one, the only MATT HETHERINGTON coming down Melbourne way, with a special thirty minute show he has prepared - it'll be big, it'll be good, it'll be MATT! Second up, we also have an excellent mini-feature - Perth poet LOUISE HELFGOTT will be visiting our shores, and she will be performing a set for us early in the day. And finally, who could forget, there's also OPEN MIC! Bring your own poems to share with us all! It's going to be a great day all right - BRING IT ON!
MORE ABOUT MATT:
Matt Hetherington is a writer, music-maker, and teacher living on Bundjalung Country in Murwillumbah. He has been writing poetry for 40 years, and his seventh collection, ‘About Alone Away’, was published by Walleah Press in December 2024. Poems of his have been included in half a dozen of the Best Australian Poems anthologies since 2004. He has performed his poetry in all parts of Australia other than the Northern Territory, including the Tasmanian Poetry Festival, The Perth Poetry Festival, The Queensland Poetry Festival, and the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. Current inspirations are: lying about in the sun, grated ginger, and playing records very loud with the windows open.
MORE ABOUT LOUISE:
Louise Helfgott is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Creative Writing from Edith Cowan University. Recent credits include 'Thistledown Seed': published July 2022 by Brandl and Schlesinger and shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Awards, 2018, WA Premier’s Book Awards 2023. 'Potchnagoola': commissioned and staged by the Katharine Susannah Prichard Centre, October 2019. 'Light of her Eye', Todhunter Literary Award, 2014. Staged 2018 Perth Fringe Festival. 'Frames', staged Subiaco Arts Centre, 2014. 'A Closer Sky', nominated AWGIE award, 2005. 'The Bridge' – shortlisted New Musicals Australia 2011, 'Can You Hold the Sun?' – Poetry anthology published by Free XpresSion 2004
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