Recording of Life Before Man's poetry event at Barton ArtBox in Canberra, hosted by Jen Webb.

Poetry lovers gathered to hear readings by six contemporary Australian poets, whose work has been published by Life Before Man, and enjoy an exhibition of paintings by Phil Day.⁣

Readings by:

• Cassandra Atherton
• Natalie Cooke
• Subhash Jaireth
• Paul Hetherington
• S.K. Kelen
• Kimberly K. Williams
• and a conversation with Phil Day

Life Before Man is Gazebo Books' poetry imprint, curated by artist, illustrator and book designer Phil Day. Visit https://lifebeforeman.com/

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Our third episode in this candid series of conversations with contemporary Australian poets, hosted by Phil Day.

Alex Selenitsch is a Melbourne-based poet, sculptor and architect, and an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.

Primarily known as a concrete poet, his cross-disciplinary practice over the past five decades blurs the boundaries between poetry, visual art and design.

Cordite Books recently published LOOK!, a collection of his concrete poems.

His latest book, Purgatorio Re-placed, an ambitious re-write of Dante’s Purgatorio, was published by Life Before Man in 2021.

Life Before Man is Gazebo Books' poetry imprint, curated by artist, illustrator and book designer Phil Day. Visit https://lifebeforeman.com/

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French-Australian author Catherine Rey shares her reflections on the work of Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.

Her latest book, ‘On the Royal Road’, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism. Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek in this work questions her own position and forms of resistance.

‘On the Royal Road’ is published in Australia and New Zealand by Gazebo Books.

Read more about Elfriede Jelinek here: http://gazebobooks.com.au/authors/elfriede-jelinek/

Read more about Catherine Rey here: http://gazebobooks.com.au/authors/catherine-rey/

Photo of Catherine Rey by Danielle Oxton.

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