The Diary's Podcast team recently attended the Grand Read, the annual celebration of poetry and prose which takes place on the first Tuesday after Warrandyte Festival weekend.

This year the featured writer is Jessica Wilkinson, senior lecturer at RMIT and founder of non-fiction poetry journal RABBIT.

We also hear from Christmas Hills poet Sandy Jeffs, Cliffy 2017 winner Kevin Bonnett, local poet Wendy Fleming and bush poet Laurie Webb.

This podcast is a recording of a live event, at times, there may be some bad language and minor audio distortion.