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1, 3. Books in the Brett Whiteley Studio
2. Brett Whiteley c1971-72. Greg Weight, photographer 

Poets Union poetry readings held at the Brett Whiteley Studio
2-3:30pm on the fourth Sunday of the month

Sunday 28 June 2009

• Michelle Cahill
  Michelle writes poetry and fiction. Her first collection, The accidental cage, was shortlisted in the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and commended in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Poetry Books. She is the editor of Poetry without borders and the founding co-editor of Mascara poetry, an online journal seeking to promote diversity in Australian poetry. Michelle has presented papers on migrant writing at the University of Queensland and at Flinders University.

Sunday 26 July 2009

• Andy Quan
  Born in Vancouver in 1969, Andy Quan is a third-generation Chinese-Canadian. His short fiction, much of which is erotic, has been widely anthologised. He co-edited and contributed to Swallowing clouds: an anthology of Chinese-Canadian poetry. Andy received a BA in international studies from Trent University in 1993, and an MA in political science from York University in 1994. He is also a singer/songwriter, has spent some time acting, and currently lives in Sydney where he works for the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.

Sunday 23 August 2009

• Carol Jenkins
  Carol is a Sydney writer and visual artist whose work is gaining the attention of a very wide audience. Her poems appear regularly in literary journals, magazines and websites. Her first solo anthology, Fishing in the Devonian, was published by Puncher and Wattmann in 2008. Her blog is a serendipitous collection of her work (showmethetreasure.blogspot.com), and she launched into audio publishing with The river road poetry series on 1 December 2007 (riverroadpress.net).

Sunday 27 September 2009

• Boey Kim Cheng
  Born in Singapore in 1965, Boey is widely regarded as one of the most promising Singapore poets to emerge in the 1990s. He has published four collections of poems to date. Three of his works, Somewhere-bound, Another place and Days of no name, have won awards. For his artistic achievement, Boey received the National Arts Council Young Artist Award in 1996. He currently resides in Australia and teaches creative writing at the University of Newcastle in NSW.

Instrumentation provided by Ashley Chatto & Marc Vandoornan on classical guitar.

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For enquiries, please contact Angela Stretch, member of the Poets Union, on 0434 898 578.