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Sappho Poetry Night AVANT GAGA #70: Hourani, Green, Jane, Radievska
10 December 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
On the second Tuesday of December, the final Poetry Night at Sappho for the year will play host to AVANT GAGA #70, with guest poets Hasib Hourani, Ash Davida Jane, Rory Green, and Anastasia Radievska. This will be followed by the regular open mic section of 10 readers, up to 2 minutes each. Sign-up for open mic is from 6:30pm on the night, before the event, so get in earlier than 6:30 if you’d like to read. Drinks and tapas will be available at the bar. FREE entry.
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HASIB HOURANI lives and works on unceded Wangal Country. His debut book, rock flight, was released with Giramondo in 2024.
ASH DAVIDA JANE is a poet, editor, and reviewer from Aotearoa New Zealand. They are the author of two books, most recently How to Live With Mammals (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2021), which won second place in the Laurel Prize. They are a founding editor at Tender Press and reviews editor at Takahē Magazine.
RORY GREEN is a writer, editor and digital media artist living and working on unceded Awabakal land. Their poetry has been published in Best of Australian Poems, Meanjin, and Going Down Swinging among others, and in 2022 published their first chapbook the attentions through Slow Loris. Rory is currently co-editor of interactive text journal Crawlspace.
ANASTASIA RADIEVSKA is a Ukrainian-born writer and community organiser currently living on Gadigal land. Her poetry has been published in Cordite Poetry Review, Rabbit Poetry Journal, and the Red Room Poetry ‘Writing Water’ anthology. A zine she coproduced with staff and students participating in the University of Sydney 2022 strikes appeared in Axon: Creative Explorations journal and her first book of poetry, City of the Sun, is out now with Flying Islands Press.
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IMAGE: Samia Halaby, Worldwide Intifada, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 83 cm, 1989.
