Federation Square – Melbourne
Saturday, 15 November 2014 2-4pm
Either at The Atrium or Beer DeLuxe upstairs

Dear poets and lovers of poetry

As 2014 approaches at the end this is the last event for the year with three amazing poets, Esther Oliver, Sean O’Callaghan and Avril Bradley

Plus our usual open mic reader section

Esther Oliver
Esther is represented in The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets, The Orange Tree: Australian Poetry to the Present Day and in 15 other anthologies/magazines/ journals. Performed at a Writers Festival in Melbourne, and at an Education Weekend talking about NIA Dance (NIA stands for ‘Neuro Muscular Integrative Action’, which uses Music, Dance, Martial Arts and Yoga modalities to energize the Body and Spirit). She has performed on ABC Radio and at Writers Festivals, schools, colleges, universities, and recently gave a speech welcoming New Citizens to Australia at an Australian Citizenship Ceremony. She hasn’t finished writing her book yet, as she is busy being a sports competitor at Pan Pacific Games Masters Rowing, ranked 3rd in the world in sprint trials, and is busy with 3 children, tutoring, and coaching Radio students for a community radio station. Her published short stories and articles have been about everything from a walking stick to Vitamin D deficiency and NIA Dance (which she teaches).

Sean O’Callaghan
Sean O’Callaghan is an Irish born Melbourne based poet, an extraordinary poet.
He is mixing his poetry with animation and multiple media, videos etc where he has been accompanied by other artists. His most poems have been published in the magazine “Unsual Work” edited and published by ΠΟ and the Collective Effort Press. Twho characteristic poems by Sean are well gven in the following links

Avril Bradley
Avril Bradley’s poetry is published Australia wide, in magazines and journals.
She has published 3 poetry books and edited two collections of children’s poetry.
Her latest collection is ‘inter alia’(Ginninderra Press 2012)
A collaboration with her children and grandchildren, of writings and illustrations, entitled ‘Errant sheep and cats on the fiddle’ is forthcoming in 2014. She is working on a collection of dance poems entitled ‘The Fragile Geometry of Dancers.’ In 2013 she won the Poetica Christi competition ‘Searching the depths’ was placed both first and second in ‘The Tango Australis’ competiton and published in ‘Award Winning Australian Writing. ( Melbourne Books.)

Poetry@fedsquare is coming to you the third Saturday of every month (except December and January) under the Federation Square and the auspices of Multicultural Arts Victoria.
Poetry@fedsquare is coming to you the third Saturday of each month (February-November)
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Dimitris Troaditis
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