Tuesday Night Live
Fifteen years of Friendly Street
Edited by Jeri Kroll and Barry Westburg
PB 254 PP 200 x 130 1862542988 $12.95 Poetry
APN 9781862542983 Wakefield Press
‘It was one of those blue, blazing evenings
when the heat seemed to stream in from the west . . .
I remember standing outside at the top of Gordon Choon’s
fire escape, discussing the sacking of the Whitlam Government
that had occurred only a few hours earlier. In comparison with
the amazing scenes in Canberra, our fledgling poetry reading seemed
for a moment trivial and even self-indulgent. Undeterred, we went
ahead that momentous evening, and whereas governments have come
and gone, Friendly Street has persisted ever since.’ –
Andrew Taylor
Art is long, politics brief. Friendly Street
is Australia’s longest running community poetry reading
and one of the nation’s most vital small publishers. Tuesday
Night Live tells you the story of Friendly Street
and brings together some of Australia’s best poetry written
over the past fifteen years.
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