OPEN FROM 6.30 // FREE ENTRY // SHOW STARTS 7PM Genre: Book launch Join us for the launch of Mirror Landscape, a major collection by the remarkable contemporary Australian poet Lisa Gorton. On Wednesday the 3rd of June at the iconic Brunswick Artists’ Bar, Gorton will be in conversation with Bella Li on her brilliant new work. A tribute to the poet’s achievement, Mirror Landscape brings together poems published over the past twenty years, as well as a substantial new sequence called ‘Caesars’ that explores the relation between art and power. The event opens at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Books will be available through Brunswick Bound, with food and drink available for purchase at the bar. This event is free, but please RSVP as space is limited. We look forward to seeing you there. MIRROR LANDSCAPE The title of the volume Mirror Landscape reflects Gorton’s fascination with the perspectives of space and time, and the ways in which memory and landscape, the past and the future, fold in and out of each other. Her images open to worlds within worlds, rooms within rooms, in poems which travel through exhibition galleries, panoramas, imperial extravaganzas and works of art – particularly those of the Renaissance, dense with allusions and covert references. The new poems extend this fascination with perspective to new and more wondrous dimensions, with a focus on mirrors and landscapes as they are employed by the Italian artists of the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Perugino. Their patronage by the Medicis allows their art to be read in terms of power – ambition, intrigue, cruelty and murder – so that with wonder the prospect of horror is never far off. LISA GORTON Lisa Gorton holds a PhD on the poetry of John Donne from the University of Oxford. Her awards for poetry include the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal, the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize; her poetry has also been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Her novel The Life of Houses was the co-winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. Gorton was awarded a residency at the BR Whiting Studio in Rome, through Creative Australia, where she worked on the new poems in Mirror Landscape: New and Selected Poems, her fifth poetry collection from Giramondo. BELLA LI Bella Li is the author of Argosy (2017), Lost Lake (2018) and Theory of Colours (2021), published by Vagabond Press. https://brunswickballroom.com.au/brunswick-artists-bar/ TICKETING INFO Please have a digital or printed copy of your ticket ready on arrival along with a valid photo ID. Acceptable ID includes a current and valid Australian Photo Drivers Licence, State Approved ‘Proof of Age’ card or Passport. The Brunswick Ballroom strives to improve our practices when it comes to sustainability and to reduce our carbon footprint. We don’t sell or provide plastic water bottles. VENUE INFO VENUE FAQS To find out more about the venue, FAQs can be viewed by clicking here.