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Melbourne Visiting Poets Program

The Melbourne Visiting Poets Program welcomes two poets-in-residence per year to RMIT’s City Campus: a First Nations poet by invitation; and a regional poet selected from a national, open call-out. Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, the program is coordinated out of the non/fictionLab, in partnership with Australian Poetry, Melbourne Spoken Word and Rabbit: A Journal for Nonfiction Poetry.

The program is committed to making opportunities for diverse poets and poetics to utilise the resources of the institution as a platform for urban networking, creative development, and performance. Previous guests of the program include Amanda Stewart, Natalie Harkin, Stuart Cooke, Lionel Fogarty, Ellen van Neerven, Andy Jackson, David Stavanger and Alison Whittaker. It connects poets with metropolitan audiences and provides time and space for developing new work.

Please contact Bonny Cassidy at bonny.cassidy@rmit.edu.au with any queries.

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