out in sydney
Announcing the February Sydney launch of the ground-breaking anthology, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets , edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones ( Puncher and Wattmann ). Launched by The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG & Anna Gibbs Friday 26th Feb, 6pm York Theatre Foyer, Seymour Centre The event is part of the New Mardi Gras Queer Thinking program. There will be a mega-galaxy of lesbian and gay poets reading, including: joanne burns, Kate Lilley, Martin Harrison, Chris Edwards, Denis Gallagher, Andy Quan, Kerry Leves, Paul Knobel, Tricia Dearborn, Keri Glastonbury, Tim Denoon, Jenni Nixon, Louise Wakeling, Carolyn Gerrish, plus the editors, Jill Jones and Michael Farrell. Other poets in the anthology include David Malouf, Dorothy Porter, Pam Brown, Lee Cataldi, Wendy Jenkins, Peter Rose, Angela Gardner, Miriel Lenore, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, and many others. Out of the Box is the first contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poetry anthology. Read an int...