Australian poets to read in Gort

TWO OF Australia’s finest poets, Robert Gray and Alison Croggon, will read in the Gort Public Library on Friday October 23 at 8pm.

Robert Gray, from New South Wales, trained as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer, and buyer for bookshops. His first book of poems, Creekwater Journal, was published in 1973. He has won the Adelaide Arts Festival and the New South Wales and Victorian Premiers’ Awards for poetry. In 1990 he received the Patrick White Award.

Alison Croggon writes poetry, criticism, theatre, and prose. She is Melbourne theatre critic for the national daily newspaper, The Australian, and keeps a blog of theatre criticism, Theatre Notes, for which she was won the 2009 Geraldine Brooks Critic of the Year award.

Her poetry has been published widely in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas. Her poetry has won the Anne Elder and Dame Mary Gilmore Prizes.

The event is organised by The Western Writers’ Centre and the Australian Poetry Centre. Music will be provided by The Shanwal Quartet.

Admission is free. For more information contact Marvelle Maguire or Fred Johnston on 091 - 564822, 087 - 2178138 or westernwriters@eircom.net

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