An Evening of Poetry: Linda Godfrey, Shady Cosgrove and Jonathan Cant in conversation with Peter Frankis
Thu, 22 Oct
|Better Read Than Dead
Join us for an evening poetry reading by these three poets, followed by a discussion on their latest works. There will be wine, nibbles and questions after the reading.
Time & Location
22 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
About The Event
About The Books:
Linda Godfrey is one of Australia’s finest practitioners of the short form. In Tannic Skin & Sweet Flesh she explores how "modern poetry is all about the small incidents from a day", relocating the small and quotidian from the margins to the centre." Linda Godfrey offers a cornucopia of lush, tactile and sensual tastes and images". At its heart, this is a collection that charts the shifting terrain of culture, place, and inheritance: a mosaic of the alluring, haunting, beautiful, and bizarre. Fasten your seatbelt—you will not return untouched.
Finding Pan is a journey of discovery: verbal, thematic, tonal and formal. The exhilaration of Jonathan’s wordplay is infectious and intoxicating. Words are rarely left as he finds them, but walked around and re-applied, taken apart and reconstructed, hidden parts of them revealed. As Audrey Molloy has written, “Rarely in contemporary Australian poetry do we find the English language put through…
Tickets
General Admission
$10.00
+$0.25 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00