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Sappho Books, Cafe & Bar, 51 Glebe Point Rd, Sydney, NSW 2037
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Poet Kelly Norah Drukker (Small Fires) will join four other poets for a monthly poetry night held by Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar, Sydney (NSW, Australia).
Kelly Norah Drukker
David Stavanger
Ali Jane Smith
Aisyah Shah Idil
Justin Wolfers
Tracing a series of journeys, real and imagined, Kelly Norah Drukker's Small Fires opens with a section of poems set on Inis Mór, a remote, Irish-speaking island off the west coast of County Galway, where the poet-as-speaker discovers the ways in which remnants of the island's early Christian monastic culture brush up against island life in the twenty-first century. Also present is a series of poems set in the Midi-Pyrénées and in the countryside around Lyon. Linked to the shorter poems in the collection by landscape, theme, and tone is a set of longer narrative poems that give voice to imagined speakers who are, each in a different way, living on the margins. In detailed and musical language, the poems in Small Fires highlight aspects of landscape and culture in regions that are haunted by marginal and silenced histories.
Kelly Norah Drukker's work has appeared in journals in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She lives in Montreal.