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June Friday@Furphy's with Maddie Godfrey and Elizabeth Lewis

Fri, 11 June

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Swanbourne

Join the performance poet Maddie Godfrey (Winner TCPP 2020) and poet Elizabeth Lewis (Highly Commended TCPP 2020) for a lively Friday@Furphy's on June 11th. Doors open 5.30 for a 6pm start.

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June Friday@Furphy's with Maddie Godfrey and Elizabeth Lewis
June Friday@Furphy's with Maddie Godfrey and Elizabeth Lewis

Time & Location

11 June 2021, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Swanbourne, Swanbourne WA 6010, Australia

About the event

Maddie Godfrey: Maddie Godfrey is a writer, educator and emotional feminist. Their first book 'How To Be Held' is a manifesto to tenderness.  At 25, Maddie is an internationally acclaimed performance poet who has performed at The Sydney Opera House, The Royal Albert Hall, St Paul’s Cathedral and Glastonbury Festival (2017). In 2020, Maddie was the first Western Australian to be awarded the Kat Muscat Fellowship, and the youngest person to be awarded a Writer-In-Residency with The National Trust of Western Australia. As of April 2021, Maddie recently won the Tom Collins Poetry Prize and is completing a Mid-career Writing Fellowship with Westerly Magazine. Currently they teach ‘Creative Writing’ and ‘Cultural Studies’ at Curtin University, where they are writing a PhD focused on prose poetry and rehearsed choreographies of womanhood. Maddie lives on Whadjuk Noongar land with their rescue cat Sylvia.

Elizabeth Lewis: Elizabeth is a poet and poetry teacher…

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