Tim Loveday

Tim loveday is an award-winning poet, writer, editor and clown lark. As the recipient of a 2021 Next Chapter Wheeler Centre Fellowship, 2022 Writing Space Fellowship, 2022 Melbourne City Arts Grant, and 2023 Australian Arts Council Grant, he critically examines masculinity, inter-generational violence and rural communities reckoning with climate collapse. In 2022, Tim won the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize through the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards; and in 2021, he was highly commended in the Southern Cross Short Story Competition. His poetry/prose has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, the Griffith review, Suburban Review, Victorian writers, Cordite, The Big Issue, Mascara, and Meniscus, among many others. His spoken word has been featured on RRR and FBI radio, and he has performed extensively throughout Victoria and NSW. Notable features include, Melbourne Spoken Word and the forthcoming Conversations With Men hosted by Clementine Ford.

A neurodivergent dog parent, he is the verse editor for the Creative Hub of Extinction Rebellion and the director of Curate||Poetry. In 2021, he completed his Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT; and in 2022, he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing, both with a perfect GPA. He is represented by Jacinta di Mase literary agency; they are currently shopping his verse memoir, your father was a bastard.

Born and raised in rural NSW, Tim currently resides in the inner-north of Melbourne, the traditional land of the Wurundjeri People. As an avid fan of the full stop, he’s afraid of sentences longer than 6 words; this bio is trying.

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Fee Sievers

Fee Sievers lives in Eltham with a bunch of beloved rescue animals, her partner, and a border. She’s also just become a proud grandma. Fee has 3 published books, a few self published chap books and work published in various anthologies and magazines. She runs a monthly poetry gig called Platform Poets at Platform 3095 in Eltham. It’s been a while between books but she’s working on some things.

Darren Hanlon retrospective experience!

Darren Hanlon is an Australian singer-songwriter from Gympie, Queensland. Prior to becoming a solo artist in 1999, Hanlon was a member of Lismore indie rock band The Simpletons, with whom he released four albums and several EPs prior to their 1997 split. Hanlon also contributed backing guitar and keyboards for The Lucksmiths, The Dearhunters, and Mick Thomas. Hanlon describes his style of music as "urban folk," and has been described by Pitchfork as having "distinctive narrative vision" in his music. (sourced from Wikipedia)

Plus open section, Lucky Dip and all that good stuff.

Poetryspective MC Lish

Readers in the open section are encouraged to read other poetry as well as their own work.

Tickets $10

Poetryspective is held on the lands of the Wurundjuri People of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge them as the traditional owners of the land and wish to pay our respects to their elders past, present and future.