Poetry readings from South Coast Writers members from Season 9 - including Ed Southorn, Kate Liston-Mills, Sandra Renew and Peter Frankis.

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Ed Southorn reads from his new book - Sea Lake Mountain - published by Walleah Press. 

This interview and reading was recorded on Wadi Wadi land at the South Coast Readers and Writers Festival on Sunday 26 July 2026.

Kate Liston-Mills reads her poetry at Four Winds Theatre at Barragga Bay, NSW.  Kate read: Empire (Scene Three of Script) from Dear Ibis (2021), and the final section of Part III in the pull-out manifesto  WAKE, (For You) - After Howl by Allen Ginsberg, from To Heal a Lyrebird (2025).  

Dear Ibis can be purchased here: 
To Heal a Lyrebird can be purchased here:

Music composed by Elizabeth Walton & Richard Lawson and performed by the Acacia Quartet. Live musicians: Elizabeth Walton, Richard Lawson and Davey Hilder. 

Sandra Renew reads her poetry live at Four Winds, Barragga Bay NSW.

• passing Gulaga, published in Limestone tanka poets anthology, 2016

• Munga Thirri, It's the sugar, Sugar, Recent Work Press, 2021

• Mungo, It’s the sugar, Sugar, Recent Work Press, 2021

Sandra was a featured poet at the launch of Elizabeth Walton's new book How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort, published by 5islands press. 

Music composed by Elizabeth Walton & Richard Lawson and performed by the Acacia Quartet. Live musicians: Elizabeth Walton, Richard Lawson and Davey Hilder. 

Peter Frankis reads his poem "Eight Ways to Look at an Octopus" live at Four Winds, Barragga Bay NSW. 

Peter was guest poet at the launch of Elizabeth Walton's new book, How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort available from 5islands press 

Music composed by Elizabeth Walton & Richard Lawson and performed by the Acacia Quartet. Live musicians: Elizabeth Walton, Richard Lawson and Davey Hilder.