Poetry lends itself to being lifted off pages and into the air. When asked to read their own work poets might consider how and why some verses wield performative power in terms of theme, rhythm and sounds. Some resonate and echo — travel through space with striking clarity or confounding chaos. Join Alex Skovron, Louise Helfgott and Magdalena Ball and Eva Collins as they reveal the inner workings of their process, with fellow poet Shoshy Rockman as facilitator.
Artists
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Louise Helfgott
Louise Helfgott is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Creative Writing from Edith Cowan University. Recent credits include Thistledown Seed, published July 2022 by Brandl and Schlesinger and shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Awards, 2018, WA Premier’s Book Awards 2023; Potchnagoola, commissioned and staged by the Katharine Susannah Prichard Centre, October 2019; Light of her Eye Todhunter Literary Award, 2014; Staged 2018 Perth Fringe Festival; Frames staged Subiaco Arts Centre, 2014; A Closer Sky nominated AWGIE award, 2005; The Bridge – shortlisted New Musicals Australia 2011; Can You Hold the Sun? – Poetry anthology published by Free XpresSion 2004
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Eva Collins
Eva Collins is a writer and photographer. Her memoir, Ask No Questions, was shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Mary Gilmore Award. Her poems appeared in the Best Australian Poems, Quadrant, Southerly, Westerly, Cordite Review and the New Castle Poetry Prize Anthology.
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Shoshy Rockman
Shoshy Rockman began to write three years ago — an exponential leap into work that is edgy, raw and humourful. A feminist humanist slant. A scientific twist. A steely desire. To bridge gulfs. Brave wolves and ride dragons bareback. National and international awards trail. In the wake. Of her words.