{"id":3625,"date":"2018-03-14T22:53:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2018-03-19T00:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:45:11","slug":"reflecting-on-adelaide-writers-week-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3625","title":{"rendered":"reflecting on Adelaide Writers Week, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week was a big one for me. I was selected by Peter Goldsworthy to be one<\/a> of five to represent the current state of contemporary poetry in South Australia on Day Four of Adelaide Writers Week as part of the 2018 Adelaide Festival. I was joined by a diversely talented group: Alison Flett, Rachael Mead, Nelson \u201cDialect\u201d Hedditch and Manal Younus before a capacity audience of well over 1000.<\/p>\n

Adelaide Writers Week is always an interesting time with authors and poets from all over the world, fascinating and challenging panel discussions and readings from the writers\u2019 own mouths. But this year was even better for me, meeting and having conversations with admired writers at the launch\/ meet & greet\/ private and farewell parties where I got to talk to David Malouf, Michael Farris Smith, Alexander McCall Smith, Stephen Dando-Collins, Mem Fox, Rebekah Clarkson and Catherine Chidgey. Thanks to my fellow poets and Peter Goldsworthy for curating the event and allowing us to present our work to a wider audience.<\/p>\n

(Photos: Martin Christmas, Heather Taylor Johnson, Helve Doecke, Rob Walker)<\/p>\n

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with Stephen Dando-Collins and his wife Louise.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kate Llewellyn<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alexander McCall Smith<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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