Lakshmi Kanchi/SoulReserve is a Western Australian poet of Indian descent. Her poetry explores love and its tumultuousness and fantasy and zest in nature. Her debut collection, Lakesong, was recently published by Centre for Stories. She is the recipient of 2021 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets, and her poems were Highly Commended in Poetry d’Amour and Ros Spencer Poetry Prize at the 2022 Perth Poetry Festival. Lakshmi’s poetry has been featured in Social Alternatives, Portside Review, and Burrow Journal. She is the current Poet-in-Residence at The Wetlands Centre where she is working towards “making poetry accessible to everyone in the wider community”.
Artist
Lakshmi Kanchi
Appearing In
Monday 19 June, 6pm AWST
Green Leaves
What happens when the national book tours and thick royalty cheques don’t quite materialise? Join us to find out.
You might also like...
Saturday 17 June, 3pm
Pitch It! Sessions
Sign up to this event to have the chance to deliver a practice five-minute, online, one-on-one pitch with a literary industry professional.
Thursday 15 June, 6pm
xoxo
Join some of EWF’s favourite writers as they share the most scandalous gossip they could imagine – emphasis on imagine.
Saturday 17 June, 3pm
The Grant Scheme of Things
A session all about grants and funding for writers – do they exist, how do you get one, and what do you do once you do have one?
Wednesday 14 June – Saturday 24 June
Frayed at the ends
Weaving language, labour and spirit, two poets expose the intersections and splinters that arise when two perspectives are made to share the same space.
Subscribe to our email newsletter: