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Powerful Poetics

What is the power of poetry? Or rather, what is power, who has it and what does it mean? What is the power of poetry? Or rather, what is power, who has it and what does it mean? Elena Gomez uses poetry to comment on labour and work, by building a “sensual archive of communist desire” to grapple with and untangle our daily struggles and forge a way forward.

Learn about how to interrogate the everyday and posit a poetic punch. uses poetry to comment on labour and work, by building a “sensual archive of communist desire” to grapple with and untangle our daily struggles and forge a way forward.

Learn about how to interrogate the everyday and posit a poetic punch.


How to attend this event

This session is part of the National Writers’ Conference, a one-day online gathering of emerging writers on Zoom.

To attend, you can buy a National Writers’ Conference Pass here to enjoy the full day of industry insights. Check out the full Conference program here.

To ensure the event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed a Zoom link and password on the day of the event. Please check your email (including that pesky junk email folder). Ticket bookings will cease 1 hour before the Conference starts, if not sold out prior.

You can download Zoom for free here.

Saturday 19 June, 1.45-2.45pm AEST

Access this session with a National Writers’ Conference pass 

The Atrium (Zoom)

Featuring...

Elena Gomez

Elena Gomez is a poet and editor living in Melbourne. She is the author of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020), Body of Work (Cordite Books, 2018) and a number of chapbooks and pamphlets, including the recently published Crushed Silk (Rosa Press, 2020).