Geoff Page presents David Musgrave from Sydney and Canberra's Sandra Renew.

David Musgrave is a poet, novelist, critic and publisher. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle, and manages the independent publishing house Puncher and Wattman which he founded in 2005. Recent collections include 'Numb and Number' (2019, Puncher & Wattman) and 'Mishearing' (Gorilla, 2020)

Sandra Renew's newest collection is 'It’s the Sugar, Sugar' (Recent Work Press, 2021). These poems move freely in time from the 1950s to the present day, from the contemporary to memoir, from gender politics to bushfires and floods. They show you jeeps, trucks, girlfriends and cane-cutters, widgies, Singer sewing machines, tattoos and rats and class grudges. Sandra's previous collection, 'Acting like a girl' (Recent Work Press, 2019) won the 2020 ACT Writers' Award for poetry.

No open mic.