Poetry@fedsquare

Federation Square
(Beer DeLuxe upstairs)

Dear fellow poets, readers and admirers of poetry. This month we continue our journey into the poetic fields bringing to you three of the most contemporary, vocal and energetic local poets

James WF Roberts

Tom Petsinis

Plus, of course our wonderful open mic readers

JAMES WF ROBERTS, Aka the Red Wolf. From Bendigo and Melbourne, a poet and a radio broadcaster on http://www.phoenixfm.org.au. Runner up, 2012 Page Seventeen Poetry prize. Highly commended, John Shaw Nielson Poetry Prize 2009/10 Fellowship of Australian Writers. Short listed for the Fermoy international poetry prize (Ireland) 2012. Recently released his first book of poetry, Blue Electric Dusk, Numen Books, 2013. Recent publications include: Bone Orchard Poetry (UK) (2013), The Art of Being Human (Europe. 2013), Song of Sahel (UK 2012) Page Seventeen Volume 10, (Aus. Busybird 2012). Painted Words (BRIT 2012) Spirit of Poe Anthology (USA) (2011. Verandah 26 (Deakin Uni. 2011),

JENNIFER COMPTON lives in Melbourne and is a poet and playwright who also writes prose. She is a keen open miker and has been known to slam. Very, very gently. Her book of poetry, This City, won the Kathleen Grattan Award in NZ and was published by Otago University Press in 2011. In 2013 Now You Shall Know won the Newcastle Poetry Prize. She has recently finished the second draft of a stage play about the death of books.

TOM PETSINIS is a novelist, playwright and poet. He is also a mathematics lecturer at Victoria University. He has published seven collections of poetry, including Sonnets: Offerings from Mount Athos, My Father’s Tools, and Four Quarters, which won the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. The most recent collection is Breadth for a Dying Word. His play The Drought was short-listed for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. His novels include The Twelfth Dialogue and The French Mathematician, nominated for both the New South Wales and South Australian Premier’s Award. Forthcoming work includes the play Hypatia’s Circle, the novel Fog, and a poetical work Sinoko and the Silkworm. Tom’s work has been translated into a number of languages.

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