Poetry and Parenting

Stephanie Powell (Invisible Wasp) and Nathan Curnow (A Hill to Die On) on finding space to be creative whilst parenting. Hosted by Liquid Amber Press’s Rose Lucas.

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NATHAN CURNOW
Nathan is an award-winning poet, performer and past editor of Going Down Swinging. His previous books include The Ghost Poetry Project, RADAR and The Right Wrong Notes. His most recent collection The Apocalypse Awards (2016) is inspired by the absurdity of the modern world and charts our collective obsession with the end times. A recipient of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, his work is published widely in Australia and overseas and features in numerous issues of Best Australian Poems (Black Inc).

As a spoken word performer he has collaborated with a range of gifted creatives, including Dr Carmel Wallace, composer Anthony Lyons, musicians Wulfbyrne Brown, Joel Roberts, Michael Wallace, Geoffrey Williams, and film students from RMIT. He features regularly at festivals across the country and has been broadcast on ABC, Triple J and Radio New Zealand. 

STEPHANIE POWELL
Stephanie is a poet based in Naarm / Melbourne. Her latest collection of poems isInvisible Wasp (Liquid Amber Press, 2024). Her work has been translated into Braille, Spanish and published widely. She’s the recipient of the 2024 Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize for her poem Fig.