Dear Friends, please join us for a night of great poetry with Amanda Anastasi, streaming live via zoom from Djarra Country, Castlemaine, Friday, May 1st 6-7pm EST via Agitation Hill across Australia.

Amanda Anastasi is a Melbourne poet published locally and internationally, including in Best
of Australian Poems 2025 and Best Australian Science Writing. Amanda is the author of
‘Taking Apart the Bird Trap’ (Recent Work Press, 2024) and ‘The Inheritors’ (Black Pepper,
2021) and was Poet in Residence for three years at the Monash Climate Change
Communication Research Hub. She was recently commissioned by DFAT’s Climate Change

Diplomacy Branch to write a poem for COP30 Brazil.

Amanda will read for about 20 minutes, followed by the popular QnA involving the on line audience, concluding with her encore.

Thanks, as always, for the on going and growing support for these readings which showcase poets coast to coast across  Australia and also with guest poets from the U.K

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For the zoom link, contact rossdonlonviking@gmail.com