Join Lisa Collyer's as she debuts her poetry collection, How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up published by Life Before Man.
Daniel Juckes, editor of Westerly Magazine will be emcee and Lucy Dougan, poet, mentor and editor will be launching the collection.
Both Daniel and Lucy were pivotal in Lisa’s literary career in the Westerly Writer’s Development program.
How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up is a conversation in poems on the taboo and abject bodies of women. Collyer refuses selflessness, tackling the disquieting dilemmas of feminine space with erotic and comic freedom.
How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up was shortlisted for the eminent Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript.
Judges’ comments:
‘Searing poetry of feminine experience, How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up is unashamedly visceral and lights up with flashes of literary incandescence. Formally inventive, bleakly comic, slyly erotic – these are poems which bristle with edges and glint like cut gems. Each poem arrives like a dare, refusing euphemism or domestication.’
Dress code: **GLAM** (if you’re feeling inclined)