Venue:
Australian Poetry Centre,
Glenfern,
417 Inkerman Rd,
East St Kilda.
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Followed by a salon with Jennifer Harrison, Kate Waterhouse and Geoff Lemon.

Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986-2008, edited by Jennifer Harrison & Kate Waterhouse (Puncher & Wattmann 2009) will be launched across all states at readings given by local and interstate poets covering all 12 sections of this truly beautiful book.

Motherlode is the first major anthology of women’s poetry in more than a decade, a 342-page book featuring 172 poems by 125 poets on subjects relating to motherhood and family: from colonial experience and the world at large to pregnancy, children, loss and death. It includes poems by Judith Wright, Gwen Harwood, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Dorothy Hewett, Kate Llewellyn, Dorothy Porter, Jan Owen, Jennifer Maiden, Joanne Burns and many other well-known and newer poets. Motherlode enjoyed a successful debut at the Sydney Writer's Festival in May and an overwhleming response from readers and poets alike at events in South Australia and NSW and commentary since then.

For more details about the launch contact
katewaterhouse@yahoo.com or
email puncherandwattmann@bigpond.com

PUBLISHER AND SUPPLIER: PUNCHER & WATTMANN
http://www.puncherandwattmann.com
Puncher & Wattmann
PO Box 441
Glebe NSW 2037
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JAMES BENNETT (SUPPLIER):
Have a look at Australian-based supplier James Bennett http://www.bennett.com.au/
Motherlode edited by Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse is their Book of the Month.