Top shelf poets CAST their EYE/I over recent and new poems as well as old FRIENDS they SUSPECT fit National Poetry Week themes for poetry readings at Smiths Alternative Bookshop 76 Alinga Street Canberra City at 6 pm on Thursday September 4. SAVE the date.

Hear some of Canberra Region’s poets - entertaining, reflective, dynamic, challenging, uplifting, adventurous - they are: Nicola Bowery, Susan Hampton, Hal Judge, Kathy Kituai, Harry Laing and Lizz Murphy.

This is Smiths Alternative Bookshop’s National Poetry Week event. There will also be in-store poetry displays by young hip poets. PLUS you can win $100 store credit if you enter a Smiths Bookshop sonnet, haiku, villanelle or other suitably poetic masterpiece about the shop by AUGUST 31 – email or drop it into the shop: 76 Alinga St Canberra City – in the Melbourne Building. Phone 6247 4459 Email books@smithsbooks.com.au