Sydney Writers' Festival Program: Poetry Edition 2018
We've taken some of the work out for you to find all the great poetry events at the 2018 Sydney Writers' Festival.
There's an amazing mix of free and paid events, so it's now up to you to make the hard decisions on the busiest literary weekend of May! Happy browsing!
Thursday 3 May
- 10.00am – 11.00am (Carriageworks)
UTS Anthology Launch: Light Borrowers
Free – No booking required - 1.30pm – 2.30pm (Carriageworks)
And the Award Goes To…
Free – No booking required - 4.30pm – 5.30pm (Carriageworks)
The Big Bent Poetry Reading
Free – No booking required - 6.00pm - 8.30pm (Wollongong Art Gallery)
Black Wallaby Indigenous Writers' Night
Book tickets - 6.30pm – 8.30pm (Parramatta Artists Studios)
Finishing School presents Talking Bodies
Free – No booking required
Friday 4 May
- 9.00am – 10.00am (Art Gallery of NSW)
Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn
Book tickets - 11.30am – 12.30pm (Seymour Centre)
Omar Musa: Millefiori
Book tickets - 3.00pm – 4.00pm (Seymour Center)
Poetry in Motion: Live Performances
Book tickets - 4.30pm – 5.30pm (Carriageworks)
Australian Idols: Writers on Writers
Free – No booking required - 6.00pm – 7.00pm (Carriageworks)
Eileen Myles: To Dig a Hole in Eternity
Book tickets
Saturday 5 May
- 9.00am – 10.00am (Art Gallery of NSW)
Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn
Book tickets - 10.00am – 11.00am (Riverside Theatres)
Ideas to Inspire with Cleo Wade
Book tickets - 10.00am – 11.00am (Seymour Centre)
Lang Leav: Sea of Strangers
Book tickets - 11.30am – 12.30pm (Seymour Centre)
Women, Colour and Western Sydney
Book tickets - 12.00pm – 1.00pm (Seymour Centre)
Yrsa Daley-Ward: bone
Free – No booking required - 3.00pm – 4.00pm (Riverside Theatres)
#poetrydebate: Who Takes the Crown?
Book tickets - 4.30pm – 5.30pm (Carriageworks)
Bankstown Poetry Slam
Free – No booking required - 6.00pm – 7.00pm (Riverside Theatres)
The Rumble
Free – Bookings essential - 7.00pm – 8.00pm (Carriageworks)
Gay For Page
Book tickets
Sunday 6 May
- 9.00am – 10.00am (Art Gallery of NSW)
Poetic Threads: The Lady And The Unicorn
Book tickets - 11.30am – 12.30pm (Carriageworks)
Cleo Wade: Heart Talk
Book tickets - 1.30pm – 2.10pm (Carriageworks)
Eileen Myles: Straight Expectations
Free – No booking required - 4.30pm – 5.30pm (Carriageworks)
Emily Wilson: Translating the Odyssey
Book tickets