Hello people! May is here and we have quite a few offerings leading into June. First up this Thursday night on May 14 we are celebrating our 4th Birthday at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf with a very special show – Poetica Petit featuring How to Read a City – Poetry by Elizabeth Walton and soundscape by Richard Lawson. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/poetica-petit-poetry-night-tickets-1979691802473

Richard Lawson is a three-time ARIA-nominated multi-instrumentalist and recording artist whose career spans five decades. With The Lime Spiders, he became the first drummer ever to appear on ABC TV’s RAGE and was a regular on Countdown. Signed to Virgin Records, the band toured internationally with Blondie, Iggy Pop, The Ramones and The Cult, and reached #1 on the U.S. college charts. Lawson’s solo work has been praised by Rolling Stone, and he has released more than 20 full-length albums, collaborating across contemporary music with artists including Caitlin Harnett, Ben Fowler, Elizabeth Walton and Acacia Quartet. How to Read a City, Your Place of Last Resort—his collaboration with Acacia Quartet and Elizabeth Walton—received interviews and airplay on 2SER, 3PBS, 3RRR and 2RRR, ABC Classic FM and 2MBS FM. Lawson is the only punk rocker added to the ABC Limelight Spotify the official 2025 ABC A-Z of Australian contemporary writers. Lawson performs over 100 solo gigs and festival collaborations (Cementa, Marrickville Bowl, Smiths Alternative, Four Winds) each year.

Elizabeth Walton is a writer, musician and cross-disciplinary artist/performer. Elizabeth received an Anne Edgeworth Fellowship in 2023 and shortlisting in Woollahra Digital Literary Awards (2023) and Furphy Literary Prize (2024). 2nd Prize: Robyn Mathison, June Shenfield and Passionfruit Poetry (UK) prizes (2025). Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Reuters, ABC and The Australian. Creative works have appeared in Overland, The London Reader, Portside Review among other places. Her short poetry cycle, How to Read A City, Your Place of Last Resort, will be published by 5 Islands Press in 2026.

THEN for all the Poetica workshops and listening nights coming up see booking link on the images and info and links here: https://linktr.ee/Poeticabondi