Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ most recent poetry collection, Living Weapon, has been described as a new blade of light homing in on our political moment. Join us for this session and meet two superstars of international poetry, Rowan Ricardo Phillips (by video from the USA) and Catherine Phil MacCarthy (from Ireland), as they explore what poetry means today. Hosted by Felicity Plunkett.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips (appearing via livestream from the USA) is a multi-award-winning poet, sports writer, author, screenwriter, academic, translator, and journalist. His writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and other national and international publications. He is the author of three books of poetry. His most recent, Living Weapon, was published by Faber in 2021 and named a book of the year by The Guardian (UK) and The Australian Book Review.

Catherine Phil MacCarthy studied at University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, and Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Her poetry collections include Daughters of the House (2019), The Invisible Threshold (2012), Suntrap (2007), the blue globe (1988), and This Hour of the Tide (1994).

Felicity Plunkett is the author of A Kinder Sea (2020), Vanishing Point (2009) and the chapbook Seastrands (2011), and editor of Thirty Australian Poets (2011). She is a widely published writer of reviews, essays and the occasional short story, and served as the Poetry Editor with University of Queensland Press for ten years.

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