The Anxiety of Conception Launch: Katy Ilonka Gero in-conversation with Rory Green
Wed, 11 Mar
|Better Read Than Dead
Join us with Katy Ilonka Gero to celebrate the release of The Anxiety of Conception! Katy will be in-conversation with fellow writer Rory Green.
Time & Location
11 Mar 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
About The Event
Written in the months leading up to and following the birth of the author's child, The Anxiety of Conception comes as a confession of humanity and heartfelt love.
Living out the continual mixing and recombining of memories, the book changes with time; every copy represents a uniquely generated and printed tour through Gero's memories, and every copy made contributes to the further mixing of time to come. In this debut like no other, Gero invites us to join her in astonishment at the bizarre and profound phenomenon of life.
The Anxiety of Conception is the second in the Nothing to Say series of “dynamic books” where each copy is uniquely generated and printed.
For any accessibility questions, please email events@betterread.com.au.
Katy Ilonka Gero is a poet, essayist, and computer scientist. Her work explores the role of computation in the writing process. Her first book of poetry, The Anxiety of Conception (Nothing…
Tickets
Event + Book
Includes a ticket and copy of The Anxiety of Conception
$37.00
+$0.93 ticket service fee
Event Ticket
$5.00
+$0.13 ticket service fee
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