Saturday 13 September, 11AM-12PM
Ethers / Digital
‘Where Do You Get Your Ideas?’
It’s the question every writer must confront—where do you get your ideas? Every poem begins somewhere: an image, a dream, a memory, a question, or even an absence. This panel brings together three poets—Vuong Pham, Tayla Richardson, and Alex Partington—to explore how differently they cultivate their creative processes.
Hear how poetry can emerge from research, personal history, passion, and spontaneous insight, as well as the ‘slow burn’ of ideas that may take years to fully form.
Pay-What-You-Wish
Online, via Zoom
Online
Featuring...
Vuong Pham
Vuong Pham’s poetry explores themes of displacement and cultural identity. One of his poems, ‘Mother’ is studied as a prescribed text in the NSW HSC English syllabus (2019—2025). His honours include the Local Word Poetry Prize (2025); ACU Poetry Prize (2024); Shinhaiku Contest (2024); Newcastle Poetry Prize (2023); Free Expression Haiku Competition (2013); and Jean […]
Alex Partington
Alex Partington is an emerging poet born and living on Wurundjeri land. She is interested in queer+femme rage, madness, loss and lust, poetry as desire, unprecious poetry and earnestness. She loves the work of Chen Chen, Maggie Nelson, June Jordan, Tommy Pico and Danez Smith. Alex earns a living in justice research and advocacy and […]
Tayla Richardson
Tayla Richardson is a poet, multidisciplinary artist and disability advocate based in Naarm. She creates to connect and untangle perceptions of ambiguous loss, hope and impermanence, drawing on her experience living with a rare neuromuscular condition. Tayla was a recent Australian Poetry Slam state finalist, won a University of Sydney art prize and was highly […]
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