Join us on Thursday September 12th at 4:30pm for a dialogue between Pulitzer Prize winning US poet Rae Armantrout and major Australian poet Kate Lilley, where they will discuss poetry and poetics at Australian National University.
Rae Armantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, including Finalists, Conjure, and most recently Go Figure. Her collection Versed won a National Book Award. a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in countless anthologies including Best American Poetry, In The American Tree and Language Poetries.
Kate Lilley is a queer poet-scholar and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. Her three books of poetry are Versary, Ladylike and, most recently, Tilt, winner of the Victorian Premier’s Award. She has published extensively on the history of poetry and poetics and is the editor of Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) and Dorothy Hewett: Selected Poems (UWAP).