Sarah Holland-Batt, Jaya Savige, and Daniel Browning will read at an event organised by Louis Klee
5.30 pm October 31, 2024
The Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TJ
Sarah Holland-Batt is an Australian poet, editor and critic, and the author of three books of poems and a book of essays, Fishing for Lightning, a collection of her columns on contemporary Australian poetry written for The Australian newspaper. Her books have received many of Australia’s major honours for poetry, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Stella Prize, The Australian Book of the Year, and the Margaret and Colin Roderick Award. Her most recent book, The Jaguar: Selected Poems, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2024. She is presently Professor of Poetry at the Queensland University of Technology.
Daniel Browning is an Aboriginal writer, journalist, and radio broadcaster. Currently, he is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Editor Indigenous Radio overseeing longstanding flagship programs Awaye! and Speaking Out. A visual arts graduate, Daniel also presents The Art Show podcast and is a widely published freelance writer on the arts and culture. In 2024, his first book Close to the Subject: Selected Works won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Indigenous Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The collection ranges across his published work in journalism, art and cultural criticism and memoir, as well as unpublished poetry and his first attempt at playwriting. In 2023, he was the first Laureate to undertake the galang First Nations Residency Program at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, where he began researching his current literary project, Returning the Colonial Gaze, a double biography/narrative transnational history/memoir in the literary non-fiction genre. Daniel belongs to the Bundjalung and Kullilli peoples of northern NSW and south-western Queensland.
Jaya Savige is an Australian poet, editor and critic currently living in London. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Change Machine (2020), which was a finalist for the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the NSW Premier’s Prize, and two Queensland Literary Awards, and was a Book of the Year for the Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, Australian Book Review & ABC Radio National. From 2013-21 he was Assistant Professor of English and Head of Creative Writing at Northeastern University London. A former Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Jaya is poetry editor for The Australian newspaper, and has held Creative Australia residencies at the B.R. Whiting Library, Rome, and the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
