July Poetry at the Pub featuring Michael Leach.

Michael Leach will join us all the way from Bendigo for our regular Poetry at the Pub, this July 21.

Michael J. Leach is an academic and poet who lives on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country in his birthplace of Bendigo, Victoria. As part of his senior lecturer position at Monash University’s School of Rural Health, Michael has taught haiku poetry to medical students and co-led a ‘health humanities’ special interest group. Much of Michael’s poetry addresses the health and wellbeing of humans, animals, and our planet. His poems have appeared in journals such as Plumwood Mountain, anthologies such as The Best Australian Science Writing, and three poetry collections: Chronicity, Natural Philosophies, and Rural Ecologies. A fourth poetry collection, Chords in the Soundscapes, is forthcoming. Michael’s poems have been exhibited across three continents, from Europe to Antarctica, and have received recognition in various competitions, from the Woollahra Digital Literary Award to the Hush Foundation Kindness in Healthcare Writing Prize. A fun fact about Michael is that he spends oodles of time with oodles. In addition to co-owning a cavoodle, Michael minds his siblings' cavoodles and poodles from time to time. He has considered opening an oodle daycare business on the side.

Join us from 7:30pm in person or via zoom.
(Zoom link will be added soon).

See you there!

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