The Sydney launch of Paris Rose debut poetry collection, Banana Girl. I’m doing the honours—a great joy since Paris is one of my most accomplished graduates, and a good friend. Her book is steeped in sass and sense, sensibility, sestinas, Sijo and sestets. She herself is a siren among poets.

A Line in the Sand brings together over 80 pieces from our leading poets and public figures in a retrospective that covers twenty years of contemporary Australian poetry. More here

Hosted by Adrienne Ferreira and Rob Carlton, Bravewords Live is true stories told by great storytellers.

Joining Bravewords this month is Mark Tredinnick, Lisbeth Kennelly, Michael (Paddleboat Mick) Kilp and Donné Restom.

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Illuminated Roving Poetry Performance

Join Poets Extraordinaire Lizz Murphy, Mark Tredinnick and Richard Bell for live poetry at each of the three Indelible Stencil poetry sculptures in Picton Botanic Gardens.

A dynamic panel discussion interspersed with slam poetry, philosophical repartee, and how we bring it all back to high quality healthcare.

To launch his new collection of poems, his fifth, A Beginner's Guide, Mark Tredinnick will converse with Bronwyn Lea about the urgent, ancient work poetry has to do—the molecular revolution it has to carry on, the repairs it has to keep running on reality—in these fast, late, and digital days.

Bringing lines from the escarpment to the sea, this year's showcase sees an electric line-up of local and coastal poetry and spoken word including Dakota Feirer, Sara Saleh, Lore White, Mark Tredinnick, Holly Isemonger, Butch Schwarzkopf, Tamryn Bennett, and Rozanna Lilley plus a guest musical set by Jodi Phillis (The Clouds). Hosted by Nicole Smede.

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I’m honoured to receive this prestigious prize, and I will honoured to be, with Jodie Williams, the guest of the Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival this June, our first trip outside the country since the pandemic.

An Evening of Poetry, Song & Art at the Bowral Art Gallery, as part of the Blue Square Exhibition.

Proceeds go to CANassist

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Join Mark with poet Judith Nangala Crispin and Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello as they discuss Agency, Sovereignty and Self-determination in Poetry, power dynamics between poetry and readership, and themes of possession, ownership and belonging. Find out more here:

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WHAT POEMS TEACH US

Dimitra Harvey, Peter Ramm, and Mark Tredinnick discuss how and what poems teach, and the value of delight in catastrophic times, hosted by Paul Hetherington.

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Mark Tredinnick and Geoff Page in conversation with Luke Whittington, focusing on poetry as a genre.

I'm looking forward to saying some words about poetry as the World Language and to participating in the conversation, the deeper speaking, poetry starts and sustains—this case among speakers of two of the more profoundly poetical languages of the world. Join us if you can at the Coronation Hall in Arncliffe.

A celebration of Panjabi Poetry and Literature, part of the Panjabi Sahit Festival, in the Max Webber Library Hall at Blacktown on Friday night 17 March.

Mark is launching Trish Takahashi’s memoir The Japanese Wife.

This is the story of Trish's attempt to overcome cultural divides and inter-cultural miscommunication, to build a marriage with a man from a completely different world.

Mark Tredinnick launches Kevin Smith’s Another Day by Flying Islands Books.

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“These are grown-up poems, and it is his wide reading and lyric ear and dedication to the craft that have in large part grown Kevin up so well he was ready to make these poems. These poems are tender, and they are uncompromising. Literature forgives us for being human, I have often thought, and these poems bear that out.”

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Australian Chamber Choir

Australian and Ukranian Carol of the Birds: Carol of the Two Crows

Text by Mark Tredinnick, music by Alan Holley (born 1954) first performance

Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921) Shchedryk (Ukrainian Bell Carol)

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Judith Nangala Crispin & Mark Tredinnick at the Canberra launch of Mark’s latest poetry collection A Beginner’s Guide.

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Presented by the Australia International Elite Cultural & Arts Centre Inc., Global Chinese Art & Poetry Association, Orchid Publishing House, and Harmony & Poetry Sydney Festival 2022

Bondi Pavilion is reopening and Poetica has been invited to put on a night of words and song featuring Mark Tredinnick.

Supported by Waverley Council

I'm reading at Smith's in Canberra on 5 September with Paul Cliff. Thanks to Martin and Geoff for this last minute opportunity.

Come along to the launch of Peter Ramm's debut poetry collection Waterlines with internationally renowned poet Mark Tredinnick.

Castlemaine’s poetry press Birdfish Books presents this special local launch event for its latest release: A Beginner’s Guide by Mark Tredinnick. 

Join us for an afternoon of readings and conversation with Mark at the Northern Arts Hotel in Castlemaine, Victoria.

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Join us at St Andrew's Brighton in Melbourne for "So Far" an afternoon of piano and poetry with acclaimed artists Calvin and Mark. Soprano voice by Miriam Whiting-Reilly.

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Join us at the Brooklyn Cocktail bar in Melbourne with Jennifer Harrison to launch Mark's fifth poetry collection.

“Poetry, like jazz, works best

Too late and in the dark.”

—Mark Tredinnick “Jazz”

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Poetry, among all the human arts, may be the most powerful in marrying the inner to the outer. Nothing but the lyric apprehension poetry practices—the seeing, the being, and the saying of Self and world—outs one’s inner life and, at the same time, invites the wider world in. The way of poetry wakes us deeply to our selves and all selves; rewording daily life it reworlds us; recasting our relationship with the natural order, it rewilds us and makes the rest of creation matter as if it were what we truly belonged to.