KEVIN BROPHY READING AT THE KEATS-SHELLEY HOUSE Thursday 2 July at 17.00 

In the Salone, entrance included in the price of the standard museum ticket. 

Kevin Brophy will read a selection of his poems - both published and new - in the Salone of the Keats-Shelley House. Kevin is the current holder of the prestigious poet-in-residence fellowship of the Australia Council B. R. Whiting Studio in Rome. He is the third B. R. Whiting Studio Fellow in recent years to read for us, following Simon West and Michael Farrell. 

Kevin Brophy lives and writes in Melbourne, Australia. He is at present poet-in-residence at the Australia Council B. R. Whiting Studio in Rome. Kevin is the author of thirteen books of fiction, poetry and essays, including Walking: New and Selected Poems (John Leonard Press 2013), which was shortlisted for the WA Premiers Prize for Poetry. He was 2009 co-winner of the Calibre Prize for an outstanding essay. His collection of short fiction, What Men and Women Do, was runner-up for the Christina Stead Award, and in 2005 he was awarded the Martha Richardson medal for poetry. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in several Best Australian anthologies of the past decade. From 1980 to 1994 he was founding co-editor of Going Down Swinging with Myron Lysenko. He is patron of the Melbourne Poets Union and a life member of Writers Victoria. He is a Professor at the University of Melbourne where he teaches Creative Writing. 

Booking not essential but recommended.