'Or, Guess' — A Poetry Book Party?
Schedule
Thu Mar 19 2026 at 08:00 am to 10:00 am
UTC+11:00Location
Btwnlns - Between Lines | Alexandria, NS
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Pam Brown and I will be having a book airing (party?) in Sydney/Gadigal to celebrate our new poetry books coming out. The event is on Thursday 19 March from 6pm at BTWNLNS, 105 Wilson Street Newtown, and we'll have Emily Stewart, Luke Patterson and Šime Knežević read poems too. If you prefer snacks and drinks, there will be some. The venue is accessible, with only a slight step at the street entrance. Would love to see a few of you there! (See poster in comments for details, and book info below.)Guess the Experience (Hunter Publishers) by Pam Brown:
Guess the Experience. Where does it happen? Who can remember? Does it matter? Sometimes sombre, sometimes banal, sometimes dissonant, often insomniac—this choppy mix of a book divulges Pam Brown's bemused attitude to poetry's insignificance and dubious usefulness, salted with an odd kind of sceptical optimism. Some of these poems reveal narrative threads drawn from both real and invented encounters, locations, and situations. Some accumulate from conversations, books, advertisements, screens, propaganda—in other words, art, life, and culture—to develop into the interstitial forms of a poem.
https://www.hunterpublishers.com.au/shop/p/guess-the-experience-pam-brown
Or: An Autobiography (Upswell Publishing) by Toby Fitch:
Or: An Autobiography explores fluidities of self, body, and imagination. Its central long poem, ‘The Or Tree’, is a speculative version of the fictitious poem ‘The Oak Tree’, by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. ‘The Oak Tree’ takes Orlando over 300 years to write, in which time they live through multiple eras, burn their poetic oeuvre, have various affairs with poets, critics, and a queen, and change gender from man to woman. ‘The Or Tree’ is an assemblage poem, resurrected chronologically from fragments of the six chapters of a burnt copy of Orlando: A Biography. It is an homage to androgyny and the non-binary, or rather, an expression of the fluidity we are all capable of. ‘Or’ is an alter ego and character in the poem (pronouns they/them), as well as a conjunction, and a ghost. ‘The Or Tree’ is complemented by an ‘understorey’, a poetic essay that underscores and intertwines with the poem across each chapter in a radical play on the autobiographical and citational.
https://upswellpublishing.com/product/or-an-autobiography
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Where is it happening?
Btwnlns - Between Lines, 105 Wilson Street, Newtown,Sydney,NSW,Australia, AlexandriaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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