Enjoy poetry reading in the Manning Clark House garden by poet and writer Sarah St Vincent Welch, performance poet Laurie McDonald and actor Ruth Pieloor, who will read the poetry of her mother, Janette Pieloor.

BYO drinks and nibbles.

Entry is $5.00 (or free if you purchased a ticket for one of the cancelled Manning Clark House book fairs). Booking are essential at trybooking.com.

Sarah St Vincent Welch chalks her poetry on the footpaths at arts festivals, and loves listening to live poetry. Her chapbook Open was published in 2019 by Rochford Press and chalk borders will be published in the Flying Island Pocket Books of Poetry series early in 2022. Her poem ‘Marion’ won the inaugural Canberra City of Design Poetry Award in 2018. She is one of the organisers of That Poetry Thing at Smith’s Alternative.

Laurie McDonald’s CD Laurie McDonald Live…at the Murrumbateman Pub was a finalist for Album of the Year in the Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth in 2013 and his poems have received considerable radio airplay. He was Convenor of the Spoken Word Program at the National Folk Festival in Canberra from 2012 to 2019. He has published Slow Down to Mine (2017) and the children’s book Sydney Harbour with Binny and Bree (2020) which is illustrated by Denise Burton.

Ruth Pieloor is a versatile theatre-trained Actor (Nepean UWS), improv artist (ImproACT), and puppeteer (Terrapin Puppet Theatre) with over 30 years in the industry. Ruth has facilitated and performed in various corporate training events, and acted in multiple indie films, including a new IGTV comedy web series to be released later in 2021. She has many performances in her credits.

Ruth will be reading poetry by her mother. Janette Pieloor is an established Australian poet with more than 30 years of publications in Australian poetry anthologies and journals, including in The Best Australian Poems and The Australian Poetry Journal.  She  launched Ripples under the Skin (Walleah Press) in 2015 and Then and Now (Recent Work Press)  in 2019.