

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Cuplet Poetry Night—Parkes
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 am (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Join host Claire Albrecht for a night of contemporary poetry in Parkes NSW. Cuplet Poetry Night, founded in Newcastle, is coming to Parkes to showcase five incredible contemporary poets and their work, supported by Parkes Shire Council.

Our lucky audience will hear from Barrina South, Nathan Mudyi Sentance, Cade Turner-Mann, Sarah Pearce, and Lachlan Brown.

We're excited to invite seasoned poetry fans and those curious but unfamiliar with contemporary poetry to join the journey these award-winning and talented poets will take us on through their writing.

Entry is free but registration is required.

ABOUT THE POETS

NATHAN MUDYI SENTANCE
Nathan mudyi Sentance is a Wiradjuri writer and librarian from the Mowgee clan who grew up on Darkinjung Country. He writes about resistance and history-making in colonial institutions. His work has appeared in Cordite, Griffith Review, Australian Poetry Journal and Meanjin. He won the 2024 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize.

SARAH PEARCE
Sarah Pearce is a poet, editor and researcher living and working on unceded Kaurna Country (South Australia). Her work appears in Aeternum, Outskirts, Meniscus, Writing from Below, TEXT, The Suburban Review, Overland, Cordite, Rabbit and various anthologies, including Best of Australian Poems 2023. She has held residencies at Adelaide City Library, FELTspace gallery, Gunyah (NSW) and Island View Writers’ House (SA), performed at Blenheim and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, and was the recipient of a 2024 Literary Fellowship at the State Library of South Australia. She writes about embodiment, queer experience, mental and physical health, and the environment.

BARRINA SOUTH
Barrina is a Barkindji poet and critic. Her work has featured in the Griffith Review, Rabbit, Cordite Poetry Review, Coastlines plus Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Kolkata, India. In 2024, Barrina published her debut poetry collection titled Makarra, through Recent Work Press. Makarra was shortlisted in the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for poetry; won the 2025 ACT Literary Award for Poetry; received a Highly Commended place in the 2024 Anne Elder Poetry Award and the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award; and was shortlisted in the 2025 Mary Gilmore Award.

CADE TURNER-MANN
Cade Turner-Mann is a writer, student and worker currently living in Muloobinba (Newcastle) and originally from Wyee on the NSW Central Coast via Bathurst. Their work has most recently appeared in Pocketbook, Sick Leave and Jacaranda, with a piece forthcoming in the Australian Poetry Journal. This year they are completing an Honours in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle.

LACHLAN BROWN
Lachlan Brown grew up in Macquarie Fields in Western Sydney. His first book of poetry, Limited Cities (Giramondo 2012), was highly commended for the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Lachlan's poems have appeared in journals including Cordite, Mascara, and Tincture. He teaches and researches at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

CLAIRE ALBRECHT
Claire Albrecht is an award-winning poet and editor based on Wiradjuri Country, Australia. She was the 2019 Emerging Writers Festival fellow at the State Library of Victoria, a 2020 Varuna ‘Writing Fire, Writing Drought’ fellow, a resident at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico in 2022, and a Varuna/The Bridge Awards Climate Fellow in 2024. Her work investigates connections between mental health, the physical environment, and technology. Claire’s manuscript sediment was shortlisted for the 2018 Subbed In chapbook prize, and her debut chapbook pinky swear launched in 2018. Her most recent book handshake was shortlisted for the Puncher &amp; Wattmann First Poetry Book Prize. Claire is Operations Manager of Red Room Poetry, a national organisation for Australian poetry.



Co-presented by The Suburban Review and supported by Parkes Shire Council
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Park Ridge
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Cooke Park Pavilion, Parkes
- **lat**: 42.03689
- **long**: -87.86664
- **full address**: Cooke Park Pavilion, Parkes, 1715 Pavilion Way, Park Ridge, IL 60068-1193, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 am (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Cooke Park Pavilion, Parkes, 1715 Pavilion Way, Park Ridge, IL 60068-1193, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Cuplet Poetry Night
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Festivals, health-wellness
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Cuplet Poetry Night—Parkes ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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