PoetiCas has been hosting regular poetry gatherings in Castlemaine since 2015, following on the tradition of Ross Donlon's poetry readings in the decade prior. It has grown into a wonderful community and their monthly events are beloved by many.

Acclaimed local poet Cate Kennedy will feature at the PoetiCas reading in July.

Cate Kennedy's collection Signs of Other Fires was published in 2001, and won the Vincent Buckley Award, enabling Cate to travel to Ireland in 2002 and write many of the poems that appear in her second collection Joyflight - poems concerned with legacy, loss and memory. She has written a memoir, two short story collections, and a novel. Her collection The Taste of River Water ranges in theme from drought to death to birth to how we contain and commemorate our pasts and our working lives. It won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for poetry ni 2011. Some of Cate's poems have been set to music, and she has been teaching at Pacific University in Portland, Oregon. It will be a great privilege to hear her perform her own work.

The usual format brings a featured reader to share their work, as well as an open section for the community to share their own original poems in a warm and supportive space, MC'd by a local poet and publisher . All are welcome to attend, to read or just to listen.

2pm for a 2.30 start
in The Coolroom at the Northern Arts Hotel
359 Barker St, Castlemaine.

Open Section as usual, 3 minutes per reader.
$5 donation on the door much appreciated.
All Welcome!

So buy a drink from the bar and join us at The Coolroom at the Northern Arts Hotel, the new home for PoetiCas.
Contact: poeticaspoeticas@outlook.com

COST: $5 donation at door