Zoe Anderson

Zoe Anderson is a performance poet who is fascinated by ecology, place and creating new folklore for a changing world. Her first poetry collection Under the Skin of the World was published in 2020 by Recent Work Press and Ampersand Duck. Zoe comes from Canberra which is Ngunnawal country.

 

Through millimetres and centuries the rocks moved

And I knew rebirth, renewal and eternal fiery dawn

A slow forever remaking, endless incorporation, 

accretion, acceptance

 

from The Stone Witch

 

Harry Laing

Harry Laing is a poet, comic performer and children’s author. He’ll be reading from his brand new collection unsettled, published by Walleah Press in May 2021. His previous collections are Thirst and Backbone. Together with his partner, poet Nicola Bowery, Harry co-runs the popular PoetryAlive weekends at their property Geebung near Braidwood, NSW. 

 

…the sound of more more

and the sun dripping scorn

and the heat in people’s cheeks

and all the eating the eating

 

                             from what’s cooking

 

Harry Laing will MC the event, perform some of his satirical/ absurdist poems and throw in a few political barbs.

the curse of Zoom

you have fr     zen again it keeps fr

zin      and then speeds up over and over a

 

                                                                               from Zoom Haiku