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Celebrating Charles Baudelaire: journeys of transformation series | 2025 edition: E G G

Baudelaire’s Birthday and journeys of transformation, 2025 edition / Egg / Poetry Sydney and Garden Creative Lounge partner under the artistic direction of Michael Aiken for a project series on Transformation in five partitions 2024 – 2028 with the curatorial scope to reflect the diversity of cultural, political and social perspectives that preoccupy poets in our…

joanne burns / Chris Mansell / Les Wicks | Performance Poetry – 6pm Tuesday 18 March @Since I Left You

joanne burns returns to the microphone after a long absence.  Chris Mansell a treasure of the Sydney poetry scene across decades, and internationally reknowned Australian poet Les Wicks, and event host. joanne burns has been publishing & performing/reading her work since the early 1970s. Her first book ‘Snatch’ was published by…

Red Room National Poetry Month 2024: Contains Strong Language @ The Knox Street Bar – Saturday 31 August

Featuring Rico Craig, Willo Drummond, Gareth Jenkins, Teena McCarthy and Pooja Mittal Biswas. This special Contains Strong Language showcase features Sydney-based poets exploring new directions of engagement and performance in celebration of the Red Room National Poetry Month.The event is presented as part of BBC’s Contains Strong Language and Poetry Month, in partnership…