PoetiCas has been hosting regular poetry gatherings in Castlemaine since 2015. Our monthly events have become a cherished part of the community. Regular monthly gatherings include a featured poet and an open mic segtion, which you register your interest on arrival.
Our guest reader is well-known local poet, Cate Kennedy Open mic, drinks from the bar.
Cate Kennedy's collection Signs of Other Fires was published in 2001, and won the Vincent Buckley Award, enabling Cate to travel to Ireland in 2002 and write many of the poems that appear in her second collection Joyflight poems concerned with legacy, loss and memory.
She has written a memoir, two short story collections, and a novel. Her collection The Taste of River Water ranges in theme from drought to death to birth to how we contain and commemorate our pasts and our working lives. It won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for poetry in 2011.
Some of Cate's poems have been set to music, and she has been teaching at Pacific University in Portland, Oregon.
It will be a great privilege to hear her perform her own work.
This Saturday at 2.30pm. warm fire, mulled wine and mulled over words, Join us.
Listen to her rendition of BInaries here;
All are welcome. So, buy a drink from the bar and join us at The Coolroom at the Northern Arts Hotel, the home for PoetiCas.
$5 admission. Contact:
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