Free event.

Kate Lines loved language and poetry as a child and has returned to poetry in recent years. A regular on the open mic here at 'That Poetry Thing', she likes to vary what she writes and challenge herself to produce poetry that is hopefully relatable and reflective of inner landscapes we all hold within us. Sometimes funny, often poignant and occasionally descriptive of the little moments in nature that enchant and delight. Always aspiring for gratitude.

'The Shape of Cats' is her first poetry collection and hopefully not the last.

Koraly Dimitriadis will be joining us as part of her national tour of Australia + New Zealand, launching her new poetry book, 'She's Not Normal!'. Koraly is a bestselling Cypriot-Australian poet of the poetry books 'Love and Fk' Poems (also translated into Greek) and Just Give Me The Pills. Her debut short story collection 'The Mother Must Die', is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann in 2024. She also makes films and theatre with her poems, and her latest film Yiayia mou (my grandmother) is currently streaming on SBS. In 2019 she was the recipient of the UNESCO City of Literature residency in Krakow for her debut fiction manuscript. Koraly's opinion articles and essays have been published widely across Australia with international publications in The Washington Post, The Guardian and Aljazeera.