# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book launch | Askew by Andy Jackson
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: You're invited to the launch of Askew, Andy Jackson’s first book since winning the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry with Human Looking in 2021. 

Andy will be joined at Readings Emporium by Tim Loveday, Angela Costi and Rachael Wenona Guy, who will each read a poem from Askew and a poem of their own. 

This event is free, but RSVP is essential: https://www.readings.com.au/events/poetry-launch-askew-by-andy-jackson 

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Praise for Askew:

‘Andy Jackson’s Askew is ambitious and emotionally attuned, as it invigorates form around fragment and the broken, syntax around breath and earth, echo and connection around other voices, image around the damaged body and the world in extremis. As the poems unwind through the said, the sung, the remembered and the dreamt, they tag each other and pass along challenges and difficult questions, confront grief and anger, and in so doing, reveal how grace, courage and love are vital imperatives now. In this cathartic, generous and impassioned book, Jackson powerfully reminds us what poetry can do as the world trembles.’
– Jill Jones

‘Original and beautiful, exceptional and radical, Askew proposes collaboration as fundamental to present-day questioning. Poets walk with composers with musicians with visual artists, sonnets with erasures with centos with ‘aftersongs’ (and other dazzling Andy Jackson-invented forms), sharing fresh conversations about empathy and compassion, crises and ecologies, kinship and masculinity, disability and embodiment. In these poems coexist learning and ‘unlearning’, acceptance and resistance, clarity and opacity, fragility and resilience. Tender and bold, cloud-‘soften[ed]’ and bright, playful and serious, intimate and expansive, they teach us to hold ‘care’ and ‘war’, ‘ghost notes’ and ‘cacophon[y]’, and remind us that we can ‘look[…] the other way’ or look straight at the ‘queer’ and ‘strange’. As its cover suggests, Askew is a book of brilliant interconnectedness, and Andy Jackson its marvellous loomsman.’
– Stuart Barnes

Learn more: https://giramondopublishing.com/books/andy-jackson-askew/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/melbourne/book-launch-askew-by-andy-jackson/200030641917024
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 74

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Melbourne
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Readings Emporium, Lvl 1, Emporium Melbourne, 287 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
- **lat**: -37.81282
- **long**: 144.96377
- **full address**: Readings Emporium, Lvl 1, Emporium Melbourne, 287 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Australia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Book launch | Askew by Andy Jackson being held?
  - **A:** Book launch | Askew by Andy Jackson takes place on Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm at Readings Emporium, Lvl 1, Emporium Melbourne, 287 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Australia.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Book launch | Askew by Andy Jackson?
  - **A:** Book launch | Askew by Andy Jackson is organized by Giramondo Publishing.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Book launch | Askew by Andy Jackson is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Melbourne, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. With 70+ people already showing interest, this is clearly an event worth adding to your calendar - don't miss out.

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