Happy to announce Bill Wootton will be the featured reader at Chamber Poets #89, 10th June 2023, 1pm -4pm.

Woodend RSL Anslow St, Woodend.

PLUS: Open Section

Black Forest Smoke

Open bar and food available.

Bill Wootton of Hepburn Springs will launch Watch, his first full collection of poems at Chamber Poets on Saturday, June 10 at Woodend RSL, where he has been a regular reader since 2017.

Bill has been writing poetry for twelve years and published Crossroads, a chapbook in 2014. He has also been a keen participant in ginko nature walks led by Myron Lysenko and has had some of his haiku published in Frogpond and failed haiku.

He edits Local Lines, a regular feature in the Central Highlands publication, The Local. At the launch Bill will read a selection of poems from Watch which will touch on the sorts of things he has watched throughout his life as a boy growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne, as a teacher and bush blocker in Cottles Bridge and as an amateur gardener and Collingwood supporter in Hepburn Springs.

Photo credit: Di Cousens