Geographies of the Mind: Australian & UK Landscape Poetry, Judith Beveridge 25/2/26 & 11/3/26

Join one of Australia's best loved poets and teachers, Judith Beveridge with close readings, discussion and writing reflecting on contemporary Australian and UK landscape poetry.

Poets have always written about landscape, its beauty and its treacherous aspects. This workshop will explore the different ways in which Australian and United Kingdom poets have responded to the unique characteristics of their landscapes, and to the demands and complexities that are inherent in them. How have these vastly different habitats been conceptualised, praised, perhaps even disparaged by poets? What elements of landscape obsess the imaginations of poets of Australian and UK poets?  

The workshop will run over two 1.5-hour sessions with examples of poems which illustrate these questions and deliberations. Each workshop will also include a writing exercise.

Judith Beveridge lives in Sydney, Australia and is one of Australia most celebrated poets and teachers. She has published eight volumes of poetry all of which have won or been short-listed for major prizes. Her latest volumes are Tintinnabulum - and Sun Music: New and Selected Poems (Giramondo, 2024 & 2018). The latter won the Prime Minister’s Poetry Prize in 2019. She has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies including Contemporary Australian Poetry, (Puncher & Wattmann 2016). She was poetry editor for the literary magazine Meanjin from 2005-2016. Her work has been studied in schools and universities and translated into many languages. She taught poetry writing at post-graduate level for many years at the University of Sydney and continues to work in the community. She is a recipient of the Philip Hodgins Memoria Medal and the Christopher Brennan Award for excellence in literature. She recently won the Judith the inaugural Robert Gray Prize for Poetry, 2025.

1.5 hours long x2

Start time: 9am UK time // 5pm Perth Australia // 7.30pm Adelaide // 6.30 Darwin // 7pm Brisbane // 8pm Sydney, AEST // 10pm NZ

online, on Zoom

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If you can only come to one live and one recorded session, get in touch with me and I'll sort it!

Cost £45 GBP (with cost effective exchange via STRIPE) 

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Zoom link and materials will be sent by email at least 2 days prior. If you don’t receive it get in touch with me.

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This event will be recorded. Our workshops are intended as live and interactive. However, there are a small number of tickets for those keen to come who cannot make the date of this workshop that are 'recording only' tickets to be purchased in advance ONLY for those who can't make the date. If you buy a live ticket and don't turn up on the day, you can't access the recording – sorry, it's not a fall back. You can buy a live OR recorded ticket. This is because we primarily want poets to come and participate in live workshops. 'Recording only' tickets allow access to listen to a recording of the workshop during the 2 weeks following the workshop. (Note that we may share or sell the recording at a future time to new participants.)