Join us to celebrate two new poetry collections from Robert Wood (Centre for Stories) with a special in-conversation with Kate Hulett.

The speakers will be discussing the books themes of poetry’s place in community and peace building, making creative cities and how to can advocate for better lives. An evening of fun, warmth and insight.

This is a free event but registration is essential. Confirm your place through the link below.

About the books:

Good Bloke Mopoke

Good Bloke Mopoke is about the owls of history that we keep. It shares poems on relationships, belonging and place. In a language of intimate reference, there is a layering of myth and memory that accumulates into an awareness of how we share with those close to us. With male friendship at the heart of its expression. Good Bloke Mopoke opens up a poetry that understands impermanence and growth as the world around us rotates.

Backwaters

The heart that beats through Backwaters is the heart of the storyteller, the guardian of hard-won wisdom and gentle insight. Robert Wood’s poems take on the tonality of proverb and parable, fable and myth to celebrate chains of continuity that have resisted erasure and carry the flourishing energies of ancestral spirits into the future. Spare, radiant, persuasive in their intimacy of address, these poems return us to the complex simplicities of love, joy and peace. Hold these talismans close.