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'This is breathtaking sophistication that still manages to keep its feet on the ground and remain accessible.'
Read it here: shorturl.at/Q3N11
#poetryreview
               
            
            
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            π€© Whoβs ready for a weekend of amazing Talks and Workshops? π€©
Whether youβre attending our Academy Day, the Market Day or both! Our team has lined up a fantastic program full of insightful talks and engaging workshops.
ποΈ Click to get your tickets! -> events.humanitix.com/host/perth-c... ποΈ
               
            
            
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            New #bookreview!
'Monument' by Bonny Cassidy (@giramondobooks.bsky.social) 'is a complex contribution to the project of truth telling about Australiaβs colonial past, and a sweeping insight into the histories of our colonial past, understood on a familial scale'. 
Read it here: shorturl.at/DqG2U
               
            
            
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            Only 2 more sleeps to the launch of Westerly 69.2!
We're so excited to share this wonderful new collection of writing with the world. Please join us for an evening of readings, nibbles & excellent conversation in beautiful Walyalup ππ₯
RSVP in-person or attendance via live-stream: shorturl.at/78gZF
               
            
            
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            The launch of Westerly 69.2 is in 3 days! 
Please come and celebrate with us π
There are still some spots left for in-person attendance at the Fremantle Library on Thursday 1 May at 6pm! 
Can't make it in person? Please join us via live stream.
RSVP here: shorturl.at/78gZF
#AusLit #LitMagLaunch
               
            
            
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            π£ Presales for Westerly 69.2 are live! π£
Featuring new work from writers and artists across WA, Australia and the world, 69.2 showcases a range of contemporary #poetry, #fiction, #nonfiction and, for the first time, #comics, with a piece from WA artist Nina Dakin.
Find it here: bit.ly/692Presale
               
            
            
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            β¨ Westerly 69.2 cover reveal! β¨
βUntitled #11β (2023) is by photographer Emma Phillips. It comes from a collaboration in Issue 69.2, 'The River as Bloodline', between Emma, Paul Collis, Jen Crawford, Wayne Knight & Paul Magee.
RSVP for 69.2's launch on 1 May at Fremantle Library: shorturl.at/78gZF
               
            
            
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            Have a read of our review of 'The Swift Dark Tide' by Katia Ariel!
Shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize, reviewer Fiona Wilkes calls it 'a miracle of poetry, memoir and essay'.
Read it here: shorturl.at/N8CSi
#AusLit #lifewriting #memoir #StellaPrize #bookreview
               
            
            
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            'Hello Keanu! A poetry anthology' edited by Emily Sun and Sarah Yeung, is this week's #bookreview!
Reviewer Jenny Hedley writes that this anthology is 'an echoing chorus which meditates upon deeper issues of justice and equality, with a measure of hot sex'.
Read it here: shorturl.at/1mzpg
#AusLit
               
            
            
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            Jenny, this is amazing!
               
            
            
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            Read @bodilyofferings.bsky.social's review of Kate Larsen's fascinating debut poetry collection, 'Public. Open. Space.'!
Ellie writes that this book 'is a conversation as much as it is a poetry collection'.
Read it here: shorturl.at/Oil
#digitalpoetics #poetryreview #bookreview #litmag #auslit
               
            
            
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            Read Lisa Collyer's review of Jerome Masamaka's 'Under The Tattered Roof' (Centre for Stories/Red River Press) on our website!
Lisa writes that the message in this ecopoetry collection is 'clear and eloquently communicated: the climate emergency is the apocalypse. Now'.
Read here: shorturl.at/Jg3sO
               
            
            
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                                            ποΈ 2025 Festival - July 12 & 13 π―οΈ
PCAF shares its love for comic books in Perth, Western Australia, with free, creator-focused events! https://pcaf.org.au/
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                                             Essayist and poet. Vessel is out now with Upswell Publishing. Australian, living on never-ceded Taungurung Country. President Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
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