Dear poets and lovers of poetry.

16 November 2013 marks the last poetry event at Federation Square event for 2013 and brings in the scene another group of wonderfull poets to close enthusiastically this year.

Featured poets this time are John Stokes, Rose Lucas and Michael Farrell followed by an open mike.

JOHN STOKES is an international poet and author who has won or been shortlisted for many prizes including the Blake, Newcastle and Rosemary Dobson Prizes for Poetry. Publication credits include Antipodes, Meanjin, Island, A River in the Dark and Dancing in the yard at Eden. His poem, The View from the sold house, is available on the RedRoom Company’s free poetry app. His third major collection: “Fire in the Afternoon” has been accepted by Halstead Press for release early in the new year.

ROSE LUCAS is a Melbourne poet, writer and academic, currently teaching poetry and editing at Victoria University, Melbourne. Her poetry collection Even in the Dark (UWAP) appeared in July 2013. She is co-author of Bridgings: Readings in Australian Women’s Poetry (Oxford UP, 1996) and has published widely in the scholarly areas of women’s poetry, feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory and cinema studies. Her poems have appeared in a range of journals and anthologies and she was shortlisted for the ABR Poetry Prize in 2009. Lucas previously taught in the English Department at Monash University for twenty years. She is also currently Chair of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in Heat, Meanjin, Hecate, Best Australian Poems 2007 and 2009. Even in the Dark is her first collection of poetry.

MICHAEL FARRELL is originally from Bombala, NSW, now living in Melbourne. He co-edited the anthology Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets which was published by Puncher & Wattmann in late 2009. He has completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne on poetics in the nineteenth century and, in 2013, was a creative fellow at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He recently won ABR’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize. He has published several books, most recently open sesame (Giramondo) (2012) and the e-chapbook enjambment sisters present (Black Rider).

We also need around 10 open mic readers. Please drop me a line at poetryfedsquare@gmail.com or troaditisdimitris@gmail.com or come see me on the spot.

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Finally, you’ll be notified almost a week prior whether or not the event will be in Beer DeLuxe upstairs again or in The Atrium.

See you there and then!