Save the date: Naarm book launch for 'In The Drink' by Emily Crocker
Save the date! If you're in Naarm (Melbourne) join us on Wednesday 15 September for a special launch event celebrating Emily Crocker's second collection of poetry In The Drink.
Hosted by Jesse Oliver.
Readers to be announced. Stay tuned!
Click here for the Facebook event.
We acknowledge the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation as the traditional owners and storytellers of the land on which this event will take place. Always was, always will be Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri land, skies, and waterways.
When:
Wednesday 15 September 2021, 7pm
Where:
Cafe Gummo, 711 Hight Street, Thornbury VIC 3071
Entry:
FREE
Why:
Poems stream through In The Drink, collecting hauntings of desire and futures lost. Visceral and at times crushingly funny, In The Drink truly makes poetry of a working class queerness.
Also available from all book retailers, both online and in stores. If they don’t stock it, request it!
Praise for Emily Crocker
“Crocker has a vivid way with her imagery, an almost casual ability to draw attention to the unexpected. How can ‘the names of the other rocks’ move out of someone’s ‘mind like an abattoir’?” - David Dick (Cordite Poetry Review)
About the author
Emily Crocker is a poet, educator, and organiser who now lives, learns, works, and writes in Naarm (Melbourne). Emily’s work in all arenas is informed by a politics of queer togetherness and class criticism, developed through lived experience and invaluable community connections. Emily grew up on Dharawal land in outer south-western Sydney, and came of age in Wollongong’s spoken word scene. Since then, she has created poetic and performance works with Shopfront Arts Coop and Campbelltown Arts Centre, and has been commissioned by Wollongong Writers Festival, Merrigong Theatre, and Red Room Poetry. Education is central to Emily’s practice and she has facilitated workshops in countless schools, youth centres, community places, and libraries. Emily completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Wollongong and is currently working towards a Master of Teaching through the University of Melbourne. In The Drink is her second collection, following Girls and Buoyant (Subbed In, 2017).
Also by Emily Crocker
Emily Crocker complicates home and family in her debut poetry collection, Girls and Buoyant. With sensitivity and wry observation, Crocker explores old suburbs and new losses at the intersection of late capitalism and queer love.
Second edition with a new cover. Perfect bound. 62 pages.
ISBN: 9780648147527