Online Ticket—Poetry Reading—Out of the Ordinary Conference

This public poetry reading forms part of the programme of Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World, a three day conference on poetry’s relationship to the extraordinary. This carbon-neutral event will be held at the University of Canberra over December 5th, 6th and 7th 2022. For all further info: https://www.ucpoetry2022.info/

READERS:, Paul Collis, Olena Kalytiak Davis and Omar Sakr

Omar Sakr is a poet and writer born in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is the author of These Wild Houses (Cordite Books, 2017), and The Lost Arabs (University of Queensland Press, 2019), which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is the first Arab-Australian Muslim to win this prestigious award. The Lost Arabs was also shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award, and the Colin Roderick Award; it has been released in the US and worldwide through Andrews McMeel Universal. In 2019, Omar was the recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry, and in 2020, the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have been published in English, Arabic, and Spanish. Omar’s debut novel, Son of Sin (Affirm Press), was published in 2022.

http://omarsakr.com/