Backwaters by Robert Wood Book Launch

Join us for a conversation between Robert Wood (Centre for Stories) and Claire Nichols (ABC The Book Show). Held to launch a new book by Robert, it will be a discussion of poetry’s place in our world, in parenting, in life. 

With the launch of this book, Robert Wood continues his signature style of poetry expressing a connection to the natural, historic, and divine world. An evening of fun, warmth and insight, you will be able to purchase the book and ask questions. 

Please note: it will be a 6:30pm entry for a 6:45pm start and event to end at 7:30pm. Buffer time included for any latecomers or conversations with other attendees after author discussions.

"The heart that beats through Backwaters is the heart of the storyteller, the guardian of hard-won wisdom and gentle insight. Robert Wood's poems take on the tonality of proverb and parable, fable and myth to celebrate chains of continuity that have resisted erasure and carry the flourishing energies of ancestral spirits into the future. Spare, radiant, persuasive in their intimacy of address, these poems return us to the complex simplicities of love, joy, and peace. Hold these talismans close." - Ranjit Hoskote

"These poems hum with the cadence of lullaby and rhyme, animated by the creatures of saltwater and sunset/ As offerings to their readers, they are so many fragrant blessings for a good life. As a document of this moment, Backwaters is a lightly assembled shrine to oneself as ancestor -- foretelling the disintegration of self into the stuff of earth and kin" - Bonny Cassidy