South Coast Poets Out Loud

South Coast Poets Out Loud

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South Coast Poets Out Loud episodes

  • Linda Godfrey reads Chapter 2 of her book Tannic Skin and Sweet Flesh - "it's a gaussian blur..."

    Linda Godfrey reads Chapter 2 of her book Tannic Skin and Sweet Flesh - "it's a gaussian blur, change the blend mode to soft light"

    • Lizard Collision
    • prussian blue chromium yellow
    • The Brooch
    • torta di cioccolato
    • Bambi
    • Lili
    • Lulu

    Linda Godfrey's new book - Tannic Skin & Sweet Flesh is proudly published by 5islands press

    Chapter 3 is coming next ...

    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    23 min
  • Maree Reedman reads "The Geckos, Exploding"

    Meanjin poet Maree Reedman reads her poem "The Geckos, Exploding" from her new book Clear Air Turbulence. 


    Music: Out into the World performed by Maree. 

    Maree Reedman's new book Clear Air Turbulence is published by 5 islands press

    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    4 min
  • Maree Reedman reads "The Trouble with my Pens"

    Meanjin poet Maree Reedman reads "The Trouble with my Pens" from her new book Clear-Air Turbulence. 

    Music: Out into the World performed by Maree. 

    Maree Reedman's new book Clear-Air Turbulence is published by 5 islands press

    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    3 min
  • Maree Reedman reads "Clear Air Turbulence"

    Meanjin poet Maree Reedman reads "Clear Air Turbulence", the title poem from her new book published by 5 islands press.

    Music: Out into the World performed by Maree. 

    Maree Reedman's new book Clear Air Turbulence is published by 5 islands press

    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    4 min
  • Nigel Featherstone reads live at Four Winds Theatre, Barragga Bay NSW

    Nigel Featherstone reads his poetry live at Four Winds, Barragga Bay NSW.

    • "In this moment I am neither" shortlisted for the 2025 ACU Prize for Poetry and first published in the accompanying anthology 
    • "How to make a scene" first published in Meanjin
    • "Witness" first published in Locative Magazine, and
    • "Inconvenience" shortlisted for the 2025 Newcastle Poetry Prize, and first published in the accompanying anthology.

    These poems will appear in Blood Muscle, which won the 2026 Flying Islands Poetry Manuscript Prize and will be published in 2027.

    For more please visit Nigel's website

    Nigel was featured poet at the launch of Elizabeth Walton's new book How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort, published by 5islands press. 

    Music by Elizabeth Walton & Richard Lawson and performed by the Acacia Quartet. Live musicians: Elizabeth Walton, Richard Lawson and Davey Hilder. 

    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    16 min
  • Peter Frankis reads "Eight Ways to Look at an Octopus"

    Peter Frankis reads his poem "Eight Ways to Look at an Octopus" live at Four Winds, Barragga Bay NSW. 

    Peter was guest poet at the launch of Elizabeth Walton's new book, How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort available from 5islands press 

    Music composed by Elizabeth Walton & Richard Lawson and performed by the Acacia Quartet. Live musicians: Elizabeth Walton, Richard Lawson and Davey Hilder. 


    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    7 min
  • Di Dibley reads live at Four Winds, Barragga Bay NSW

    Di Dibley reads two poems live at Four Winds, Barragga Bay NSW

    The Natural Order and Note, Note Up, Note Down, Note 

    Music composed by Elizabeth Walton & Richard Lawson and performed by the Acacia Quartet. Live musicians: Elizabeth Walton, Richard Lawson and Davey Hilder. 


    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    9 min
  • Kate Liston-Mills reads at Four Winds, Barragga Bay, NSW

    Kate Liston-Mills reads her poetry at Four Winds Theatre at Barragga Bay, NSW. 

    Kate read

    • Empire (Scene Three of Script) from Dear Ibis (2021), and 
    • the final section of Part III in the pull-out manifesto  WAKE, (For You) - After Howl by Allen Ginsberg, from To Heal a Lyrebird (2025).  

    Dear Ibis can be purchased here:
    https://shortaustralianstories.com.au/product/dear-ibis/

    To Heal a Lyrebird can be purchased here:
    https://katelistonmills.com/index.php/shop/

    Music composed by Elizabeth Walton & Richard Lawson and performed by the Acacia Quartet. Live musicians: Elizabeth Walton, Richard Lawson and Davey Hilder. 



    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    11 min
  • Jen Webb reads poetry live at Four Winds, Barragga Bay NSW.

    Jen Webb reads live at Four Winds Barragga Bay NSW.  

    • Fishing, from Ten Cities, Shane Strange and Paul Hetherington (eds) (Recent Work Press, 2017)
    • Minjerribah, from Five Tastes  (Authorised Theft, 2022)
    • Preparing the Terrain 1 and 2, in Grief: Five Sequences  (Authorised Theft, 2025)
    • Report from the Lab; Harmonices Mundi, from The Daily News (Recent Work Press, 2024)

    Music composed by Elizabeth Walton & Richard Lawson and performed by the Acacia Quartet. Live musicians: Elizabeth Walton, Richard Lawson and Davey Hilder. 



    Fresh words brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre

    12 min

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Season 9 features live readings from the launch of Elizabeth Walton's new book How to Read a…