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1, 3. Books in the Brett Whiteley Studio
2. Brett Whiteley c1971-72. Greg Weight, photographer 

Poets Union poetry readings held at the Brett Whiteley Studio
2-3:30pm on the fourth Sunday of the month

Sunday 28 September

Queensland touring poets

• Helen Avery
  Helen manages her family property near Longreach Western Queensland where she has lived for 25 years. Her life has been intimately involved with the Australian outback landscape. Her most recent book of poetry, Seduced by Sky, was published by Nardoo Publishing in 2005.
• Ross Clark
  Ross writes poetry as well as Haiku, a form of traditional Japanese poetry. He has published seven volumes of poetry, the most recent being Salt Flung into the Sky Ginninderra, 2007) and two chapbooks, including At the Turn of the Seasons (Sweet Water, 2003). He has presented and performed in city and rural Australia, Japan and central Texas.
• Nathan Shepherdson
  Nathan has won the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize twice (2004, 2006), the 2005 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Award, the 2006 Newcastle Poetry Prize and the 2006 Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award. His first book, Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror, was published in 2006 by UQP. His chapbook, What marian drew never told me about light, was published by Small Change Press earlier this year. He lives at the Glass House Mountains in Queensland.

Sunday 26 October

• Benito Di Fonzo
  A journalist, playwright and poet, Benito has written for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. Several of his plays have been performed at The Sydney Opera House. Benito is a cofounder of Bardflys, an organisation that has fostered poetry and spokenword to a Sydney audience for over a decade. Satire that’s stronger than dirt.

Sunday 23 November

• David Reiter
  Director of Interactive Publications - a print and digital publisher in Brisbane - David combines poetry and fiction writing with technology in innovative ways. He has published 12 books and has recently been focusing on scriptwriting and visual media. Truncated and provocative, his narratives will transform you.

Instrumentation provided by Ashley Chatto & Marc Vandoornan on classical guitar

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For enquiries, please contact Angela Stretch, member of the Poets Union, on 0434 898 578