Join us on Friday the 27th of June at 5pm when Australian poet Michael Farrell will read some of his work in English, and Italian translations will also be read. The reading will take place in the Salone of the Keats-Shelley House.  

Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, New South Wales. He has published several books and chapbooks, including Ode Ode (Salt), A Raiders Guide and Open Sesame (Giramondo), Thempark (Book Thug), Thou Sand (Tinfish), Enjambment Sisters Prese t (Black Rider), Same! Same! Same! Same! (Sus) and a poetry comic book BREAK ME OUCH (3 Deep). He also coedited, together with Jill Jones, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann).

Michael was a Menzies fellow at the University of Kent, and an Australia Council BR Whiting studio resident in Rome in 2014. He has a PhD in Australian literature from the University of Melbourne.

Numbers are limited to 25 so advance booking is recommended.