Recording of Life Before Man's poetry event at Barton ArtBox in Canberra, hosted by Jen Webb.

Poetry lovers gathered to hear readings by six contemporary Australian poets, whose work has been published by Life Before Man, and enjoy an exhibition of paintings by Phil Day.⁣

Readings by:

• Cassandra Atherton
• Natalie Cooke
• Subhash Jaireth
• Paul Hetherington
• S.K. Kelen
• Kimberly K. Williams
• and a conversation with Phil Day

Life Before Man is Gazebo Books' poetry imprint, curated by artist, illustrator and book designer Phil Day. Visit https://lifebeforeman.com/

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Our third episode in this candid series of conversations with contemporary Australian poets, hosted by Phil Day.

Alex Selenitsch is a Melbourne-based poet, sculptor and architect, and an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.

Primarily known as a concrete poet, his cross-disciplinary practice over the past five decades blurs the boundaries between poetry, visual art and design.

Cordite Books recently published LOOK!, a collection of his concrete poems.

His latest book, Purgatorio Re-placed, an ambitious re-write of Dante’s Purgatorio, was published by Life Before Man in 2021.

Life Before Man is Gazebo Books' poetry imprint, curated by artist, illustrator and book designer Phil Day. Visit https://lifebeforeman.com/

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Our second episode in this candid series of conversations with contemporary Australian poets, hosted by Phil Day.

Cassandra Atherton is an award-winning Australian writer and scholar of prose poetry. She was a Visiting Scholar in English at Harvard University in 2016 and a Visiting Fellow in Literature at Sophia University, Tokyo, in 2014.

Cassandra is a widely anthologised poet who has had ten books of prose poetry published since 2009. She co-wrote Prose Poetry: An Introduction and co-edited The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry with Paul Hetherington.

Her latest book, Leftovers, was published by Life Before Man in 2020.

Life Before Man is Gazebo Books' poetry imprint, curated by artist, illustrator and book designer Phil Day. Visit https://lifebeforeman.com/

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