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

Poets Union poetry readings

Last Sunday of the month
2:00 - 3:30pm

Sunday 26 September 2010

• Stephen Edgar
  Stephen Edgar has published seven books of poetry, the most recent being History of the day (Black Pepper), which was awarded the William Baylebridge Memorial Prize in 2009. His poems have been characterised as meditations in which a visual surface is probed and questioned: an investigation of the labyrinth just behind Creation’s serene surface. His previous books include Other summers and Lost in the foreground.
  
• Thomas Thorpe
  Thomas Thorpe is a professional geographer who has been writing poetry on and off since distant school days in England. After six years in the Royal Air Force, he migrated to Australia, teaching in secondary, tertiary and adult education. He was a foundation staff member and a head of department at the Australian Catholic University. Writing primarily for his own satisfaction, and family and friends, he has been published in the UK and Australia.

Sunday 24 October 2010

• Rae Desmond Jones
  Rae Desmond Jones was born in the mining town of Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales. Although many of his poems and stories are concerned with urban experience, he has always felt that desert landscapes are central to his language and perception. He was mayor of Ashfield, an inner Sydney Municipality, from 2004 to 2006, and during that period, held together a broad coalition of Labor Party, Green and Independent representatives. His volume of poetry Blow out was published by Island Press in 2008.

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