Canberra poets are invited to come together watch the livestream of the Red Room Company launch of Australia’s inaugural Poetry Month, on World Poetry Day 2021. Poetry Month will run across August 2021.

This launch will feature readings by Evelyn Araluen, Eileen Chong, Jaya Savige, Phil Wilcox and Caitlin Maling from their most recent collections; a musical adaptation of an Australian poem by Ben Salter; original-poetry-satire by multi-disciplinary artist Vidya Rajan; fresh spoken word by Luka Lesson; the debut of a new commissioned co-written poem by Ali Cobby Eckermann and the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo; a publisher Q&A with UQP's Aviva Tuffield not to mention a tonne of book giveaways with your virtual hosts Anne-Marie Te Whiu and David Stavanger.

Come and watch the launch on the big screen in the company of other poets and Smith’s Alternative’s comfortable surrounds.

Entry is free.

You can also watch the livestream at home on the Red Room Company facebook page.

I find myself in the night, which is your
next day, reaching through
Eternal wonder, through the mind field of prayers, to you
~ Joy Harjo & Ali Cobby Eckermann