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Public lecture

Presented by:

Dorothy Porter

Title:

Why Does Poetry Get Away With Murder?

Date & Time:

26/9/2005 12.30

Venue:

Harold White Lecture Theatre, School of Creative Arts, Arts Centre Bld

Description:

The Master of Creative Writing by Coursework is pleased to offer three talks by acclaimed Melbourne authors on the 26th, 27th and 28th September 2005.

All talks are free of charge to members of the public. Venue: Harold White Lecture Theatre, School of Creative Arts, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne, Cnr Gratton and Swanston Sts.

At 12.30 Monday, 26th September
Dorothy Porter
will deliver a public lecture on
Why Does Poetry Get Away With Murder?

Dorothy Porter has published twelve books including six collections of poetry, two novels for young adults and four verse novels including The Monkey's Mask, a detective thriller. Her latest libretto on the double CD Before Time Could Change Us was released in August.

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At 12.30 Tuesday, 27th September
Fiona Capp
will deliver a public lecture on
Life of the Body, Life of the Mind

Fiona Capp is the author of four books including 'Night Surfing' (a novel), 'Last of the Sane Days' (a novel) and 'That Oceanic Feeling' (a memoir), which won the Kibble Award for Life Writing and the Australians Studying Abroad Travel Writing Prize.

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At 12.30 Wednesday 28th September
Robert Hilman
will deliver a public lecture on
Blake, Energy and the Writer's Imagination

Robert Hillman is a Melbourne novelist and memoirist. He writes full-time, switching between fiction, non-fiction and journalism. His most recent novel is The Deepest Part of the Lake. His memoir, The Boy in the Green Suit, won the Australian National Biography Award

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