Fullers Poets: Can poetry change us?

Can poetry change us? A celebration of the art.

Canberra poet Geoff Page joins Tasmanian poets Sarah Day, David Mason and Esther Ottaway for a reading and celebration of poetry and its power to change us.

Sarah Day’s first collection of poetry was published in 1987. Since then, her books have received the Anne Elder and Queensland Premier’s Award and Wesley Michel Wright Prizes, and have been shortlisted for the NSW, Tasmanian Premier’s, and Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. She has taught creative writing to year 12 students for twenty years, has collaborated with musicians, and judged national poetry, fiction, and nature-writing competitions. Her latest book is Slack Tide (Pitt Street Poetry 2022).

The former poet laureate of Colorado, David Mason has lived in Tasmania since 2018. His many books include The Sound: New and Selected Poems, Voices, Places: Essays, Pacific Light and Incarnation and Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us?

Esther Ottaway is the winner of the 2022 Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry and People’s Choice Award in the Tasmanian Literary Awards, and she also holds multiple national and international prizes and shortlistings. She is noted for her powerful poems about women’s experiences, and her third collection, due out in July, is She Doesn’t Seem Autistic (Puncher & Wattmann).

Geoff Page is based in Canberra and has published twenty-four collections of poetry as well as two novels and five verse novels. His latest books are In medias res (Pitt Street Poetry) and 101 Poems: 2011-2021 (Pitt Street Poetry). He also reviews Australian poetry extensively and has run monthly poetry readings and jazz concerts in Canberra for many years.

Join Sarah, Esther, David and Geoff for this special poetry reading and discussion event at Hadley’s Orient Hotel.

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