We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming poetry evening on 29 October.

Event: Poetry @ DAX - featuring Anne M. Carson, Anne Elvey, Jessica L. Wilkinson & Sandy Jeffs

Date: Thursday 29 October 2026

Time: 6-8pm

Location: The Dax Centre, 30 Royal Parade, Parkville

Drinks provided. Seating will be available. This is a free event. RSVP is preferred.

The Dax Centre are the custodians of the Cunningham Dax Poetry Collection, managed by Dr Jennifer Harrison, which encompasses an extensive selection of poetry by people with a lived experience of mental health conditions. The Dax Centre are excited to host this poetry reading to further our commitment to preserving the legacy of poets with a lived experience.

The evening will feature readings by:

Anne M. Carson

Anne Elvey

Jessica L. Wilkinson

Sandy Jeffs

About The Dax Centre

The Dax Centre are the custodians of the Cunningham Dax Poetry Collection, managed by Dr Jennifer Harrison, which encompasses an extensive selection of poetry by people with lived experience of mental health conditions. The Dax Centre are excited to host this poetry reading to further our commitment to preserving the legacy of poets with a lived experience.

About the poets

Anne M Carson

Dr Anne M Carson is a community creative writing teacher, poet and essayist living on unceded Bunurong Country. In 2026 she won the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize; while her PhD received an Outstanding Dissertation Prize (AERA 2024). She recently published her fifth poetry collection, George Sand (and Me): a poetic biography.

Anne Elvey

Anne Elvey lives on unceded Bunurong Country, as a settler descendent of Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. Her poetry collections include: (C)loud: A poetic response to child sexual abuse in Roman Catholic church (Palaver, 2025) and Intents (Liquid Amber, 2025). Anne was inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal.

Jessica Wilkinson

Jessica Wilkinson is the author of three poetic biographies, and is currently working on a fourth about artist Mirka Mora. She is the editor of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry and a professor in creative writing at RMIT University.

Sandy Jeffs

Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976 when it was considered something from which you could not recover, Sandy Jeffs was among the first wave of people in the 1980s who started speaking publicly about living with a mental illness. Much of her writing has been about living with schizophrenia. Sandy has published 8 volumes of poetry, a memoir and co-authored an oral history of Larundel Psychiatric hospital.

Accessing the Gallery

The Dax Centre is situated on the ground floor of the Kenneth Myer Building at 30 Royal Parade on the University of Melbourne Parkville campus.

The Dax Centre is wheelchair accessible and has accessible toilets.

The Dax Centre is on of Royal Parade, near Grattan Street. Metered parking is available on Royal Parade. Paid parking will be available for the event underneath the Kenneth Myer Building. Gallery patrons are able to access the Kenneth Myer Building carpark, please ignore the signage that says No Public Parking if you are visiting the gallery.

Car drop offs can be made out the front of the Kenneth Myer Building, with ramp access through to The Dax Centre via the side or front entrance of the building.

The Kenneth Myer Building has underground parking with fees of $26 for four hours or $39 all day to midnight. There are accessible car parks in the underground carpark, with lift access to The Dax Centre on the ground floor.

The Dax Centre is a two-minute walk from the new Parkville station, which is part of the Metro Tunnel.

Please enter The Dax Centre from Genetics Lane. You access Genetic Lane from Royal Parade, walk down Genetics Lane (alongside the Kenneth Myer Building away) and you will find The Dax Centre entry on your right.

Contact us

Please get in touch with The Dax Centre team with any inquiries at inbox@daxcentre.org or call on
+61 3 9349 2538.

Go to our website for more details: Home - The Dax Centre

Contact the host of Poetry @ DAX: Anne M. Carson, Anne Elvey, Jessica L. Wilkinson, Sandy Jeffs