Sarah Walker is a writer, artist and photographed based in Naarm/Melbourne. She makes work about anxiety, control and intimacy, and uses humour and expanded narrative forms to unpack tricky feelings around death and disaster. Her essay collection The First Time I Thought I Was Dying was published by UQP and won the 2021 Quentin Bryce Award.
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Saturday 17 June, 1:45pm
Bella Li: Composition as Explanation
What is it we do when we write? How does composition relate to vision? Bella Li discusses two particular methods of composition – collage and ekphrasis – as well as general compositional principles of structure and sequence, in works of poetry.
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Saturday 24 June, 8pm
Closing Night: Celestial Bodies
See the festival off with us in true extravagance, gala-style, and witness a dreamy line-up of well-loved writers, artists and inter-galactic DJS.
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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.
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Thursday 22 June, 7:30pm
HIBERNAL: under the moon
What better way to celebrate the winter solstice than listening to powerful tales around a fire? Rug up to commune beneath the moon on the longest night of the year for a night of aural storytelling.
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