The Poets Union monthly poetry reading is held on the fourth Sunday of the month, 25 July at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Sydney.

Date: Sunday 25 July
Guest poets:Anna Kerdijk Nicholson and Martin Langford
Venue: Brett Whiteley Studio
Address: 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills (off Devonshire Street, via Esther Street and Esther Lane)
Time: 2.00 - 3.30 pm
Free entry. Open Mic included.

Guest poets for 25 July will be Martin Langford and Anna Kerdijk Nicholson

Martin Langford has published six books of poetry, including The Human Project: New and Selected Poems (P&W, 2009). Thematically, he is interested in the way we try to imagine ourselves beyond our biological inheritance, and in the evolution of our social and imaginative spaces. He lives on the northern outskirts of Sydney, and the landscape of that area often features in his work.

In Microtexts (Island 2005), which is a book of poetics, he argues for poetry’s engagement with the other, and against the enlargement obsessions of our standard narratives. Langford is the editor of Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788-2008 (P&W, 2009).

Sunday 25 July 2010 - guest poets will be Anna Kerdijk Nicholson and Martin Langford.

Anna Kerdijk Nicholson was born in Yorkshire and lives in Sydney where she practises law. Possession, her most recent collection of poetry, is about Captain Cook’s Endeavour voyage and colonial appropriation. From 2000 to 2004, she was managing editor of Five Bells, the quarterly poetry journal of The Poets Union Inc. She has won prizes in the Val Vallis and Australian Women Writers’ Poetry Competitions. Her first book of poetry, The Bundanon Cantos, was a ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ Best Book of 2003.

The Poets Union thanks the Brett Whiteley Studio staff and the Art Gallery of NSW for their support and we thank Rosnay wines for their wonderful wine and sponsorship.
Convenor: Angela Stretch for Poets Union Inc. Enquiries for 2010 : 0438 898 578