Following the Ink / All That Could Be Lost: Readings by Helga Jermy & Melanie Jansen
Schedule
Sat Feb 28 2026 at 04:00 am to 05:00 am
UTC+11:00Location
131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7000 | Hobart, TS
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Join Helga Jermy and Dr Melanie Jansen at the Afterword Cafe as they read from and discuss their new poetry collections.Helga Jermy's zuihitsu, Following the Ink, is a poet’s daybook of a journey through Japan, a touching and quietly profound consideration of belonging, otherness, modernity, youth and aging, the passage of time, the kitsch and the classic, and, always, love.
Helga Jermy is an English-Estonian poet, now living on the northwest coast of Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. Poems and short fiction have been commended and shortlisted in major national and international prizes. Following the Ink is her fifth collection. See more of Helga’s work at helgajermypoetry.com.au.
Melanie’s first poetry collection combines an exploration of the complex emotional and ethical challenges of working in intensive care with a powerful documentation of suffering, joy and growth in the personal life that must be lived alongside the professional one.
Dr Melanie Jansen grew up in Logan City, and she lives, writes, and practises medicine on Turrbal and Jagera land in Meanjin Brisbane. A Churchill Fellow in clinical ethics and medical humanities, and now a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Queensland, Melanie has had poems published in medical journals and poetry anthologies and one of her poems, “Some Days the Air is Soft”, won one of the major prizes in the Grieve Competition. All That Could Be Lost.
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