It was an honour and pleasure to chat to fellow poet David Ades on Westwords Poets’ Corner. We spoke on the theme of ‘suburban noir’, reading and discussing poems from Suburban Fantasy. The timing was apt as both David and I were locked down in suburbia during a Sydney covid outbreak, juggling work with homeschooling! But we made it through …
On 1 July 2021, Senator Mehreen Faurqi launched my poetry collection Suburban Fantasy, a feminist exploration of the dark underbelly of suburbia. What was to have been an evening of live presentations hosted by Poetry Sydney at Surry Hills Library was quickly reconfigured into an online launch in response to Sydney’s latest Covid lockdown. Undeterred, Senator Faruqi delivered a powerful …
Please join me for the virtual launch of Suburban Fantasy this Thursday 1 July! The book was to have been launched in person by Senator Mehreen Faruqi in the beautiful Enid Cook room above Surry Hills Library, with wine and food aplenty. Sadly, due to Sydney covid restrictions, this is no longer possible and the event will now be held …
A huge thanks to Robert Adamson, Yvette Henry Holt, Robbie Coburn and Anne Casey for their generous commentary on my new poetry collection Suburban Fantasy. You can read their kind words below, sample poems from the book here, and if you feel inspired to do so, support Australian poetry by buying a copy from UWA Publishing! “Michele is the finest …