Love, Empire, Poetry: an in conversation
Dates:
4-5pm, Sunday 23 August 2026
Address:
Shipping Container – Stage 2, Gap View Hotel, 123 Gap Rd, The Gap, Alice Springs (Mparntwe), NT, 0870
Cost: Requires a Red Dirt day pass
Event type(s):
Panel, Performance
Join Lebanese poet and Poetry Month Youth Ambassador Jihad Yassine and Aboriginal poet and Red Room First Nations Producer Luke Patterson for a conversation exploring demonised masculinities, tenderness, truth-telling and family knowledge across cultures and generations. Here, two brothers from different cultures reflect on the responsibilities of carrying stories, the tensions between vulnerability and expectation, and the ways language helps us make sense of ourselves and each other. Part in-conversation, part poetry reading and part collective activity, this session invites audiences into the discussion. Together we'll consider the stories we inherit, the stories we carry, and what poetry might teach us about living with one another.
Tickets on sale July 15 via the Red Dirt Poetry Festival site (under 18s free).
Presented in partnership with Red Dirt Poetry as part of Poetry Month.
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