Innie Outie: Pride Amplified poetry event

Presenting poets from the LGBTQIA+ community and showcase their queer literary practice and voice. Poetry that explores places and bodies from the deeply personal accounts of five Sydney based queer poets. Performed and live streamed for one-night only at Knox.live

The principles of deep interiority with no representations of being outward oriented are in belly button terms all innie and no outie. The interior is where we are. The exterior is where we go. Part of what constitutes sexuality is that which links the interior to the exterior. These complex relationships link the private to the public, the individual to society and the larger environment. It is what shapes and forms our human experience.

Meet the poets:

Tricia Dearborn is an award-winning poet, writer and editor. Her latest books of poetry are Autobiochemistry and She Reconsiders Life on the Run. Her work is widely represented in literary journals, and in anthologies including Fishing for Lightning: The spark of poetry, The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, and Contemporary Australian Poetry.

Willo Drummond is a queer poet who lives and writes on Dharug and Gundungurra land. Her poetry can be found in Cordite Poetry Review, Australian Poetry Journal,_ The Canberra Times, _anthologies published by Australian Poetry, Hunter Writers Centre, Recent Work Press, and elsewhere.

Charles Freyberg is a Kings Cross (Sydney) poet and performer. In the 1990s he worked as an actor and director, especially with the surreal clown Victor Sheehan, his first poetic mentor. His own writing started with drag shows and performance art staged at Club Bent at the Performance Space in the late 90s and with a number of plays.

Kari McKern lives in Sydney and is a retired career public servant and IT specialist. She has visited Asia often and maintains a lifetime interest in Asian and world affairs. In the last decade or so she has responded to events here and elsewhere by way of essays and poetry.

Paris Rosemont is a poet whose poetry has been published in Verge Literary Journal, FemAsia Magazine, _Red Room Poetry’s ‘Admissions’,_ Gems Zine _and Heroines Anthology (vol.4.). Paris was longlisted for the _Joyce Parkes Prize 2022 and is delighted to have won the Poetry Prize for the New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing 2022. 

Emcee: Lou Steer is a cabaret poetry diva, performing her poetry directly to people in museums, nightclubs, festivals and even graveyards.

Poetry Sydney gives respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land we live, create, meet and work.

Image: Richard Wilkinson, Impossible Numbers. All rights reserved 2023.