You are warmly invited to the Melbourne launch of our newest books in the Rabbit Poets Series: Helena Pantis's 'cosmodog', Sarah Pearce's 'Silt & Ash' & Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon's 'The Commonwealth of Amnesia'.
Join us on Wednesday 4th November, 6pm for 615pm sharp start, for a Q&A with the authors and short readings from their new books.
Helena Pantsis (she/they) is an editor, writer and artist from Naarm, Australia, with a fond appreciation for the weird, the dark and the experimental. She recently won the 2026 Steele Rudd Award for the short story collection Mother Salad (UWAP). More can be found at hlnpnts.com.
Sarah Pearce is a poet, editor and researcher living and working on Kaurna Country. Her poetry appears in various journals and anthologies, including TEXT, Overland, Rabbit, Cordite, Grieve and Best of Australian Poems. She is Deputy Editor of The Suburban Review. She was awarded a 2024 Literary Fellowship at the State Library of South Australia, which formed the genesis of this book. She writes about embodiment, intimacy, mental and physical health, and the environment.
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is a writer and educator working in erasure, cut-up and free verse poetry. Her work has appeared in Rabbit, Cordite and Australian Book Review; and in the anthologies The Best of Australian Poems 2025 and Dear Human, alongside US Poet Laureate Ada Limón. She has won the Bruce Dawe and KSP Poetry Prizes and has been shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The Commonwealth of Amnesia is her third collection, exploring xenophobia and the forgotten histories of Croatian Australians through the medium of erasure poetry.
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