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Mark Tredinnick book launch: Poets Out Loud @Gallery

December 9, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

| $10
We are thrilled to present one of Australia’s most celebrated poets, Mark Tredinnick, at our December gathering at the gallery. Mark’s latest collection ‘Walking Underwater’ will be launched by Adam van Kempen.  Plus open mic for all you poets out there!
Poets Out Loud is hosted by Sarah Temporal every month at Gallery by Bacaro in the Tweed Regional Gallery. Bring your original poem to share. Note: Open mic places are limited to 10 for this special event. Sign up at the door from 6pm.
Bookings are highly recommended due to capacity restrictions: gallerybybacaro.com
Entry by donation: we suggest $10, under 18s free.
About our feature poet: 
Mark Tredinnick is a celebrated poet, essayist, and teacher. His many works of poetry and prose include A Gathered Distance, Almost Everything I Know, Egret in a Ploughed Field, Bluewren Cantos, Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, and The Little Red Writing Book. For twenty-five years, he’s taught poetry and expressive writing at the University of Sydney, where he was poet in residence in 2018.

Mark’s fourth collection, Walking Underwater, is now out, from Pitt Street Poetry, publishers of Fire Diary (2010) and Bluewren Cantos (2013).

Named for the poem that won the Montreal Prize in 2011, Walking Underwater is a catchment of Mark’s poetry written in a wide range of forms, long and short, over the past six years: gardens of words, forests of phrase, rivers, loves, griefs, birds, fires, pastorals, plaints, epiphanies, elegies, and odes.

Adam van Kempen is the principal of BvK Solicitors & Attorneys. He is chair of the Byron Writers Festival board and is involved with other community organisations such as SPRUNG!! Integrated Dance Theatre and Screenworks Northern Rivers.

 

Sarah Temporal is the director and host of Poets Out Loud. She enjoys mentoring young writers and runs the Poets Out Loud Youth Slam. She is a prize-winning poet and educator, with poetry published in numerous Australian literary journals, and looks forward to releasing her debut collection ‘Tight Bindings’.

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