The event will take place on 5 October at the University of Western Australia’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, with the book launched by Professor Daniel Brown.

Crow Books is proud to be selling copies of Acanthus on the night of the launch, and can be signed by Potter. Guests will be served drinks.

This event is free, but RSVP is essential. Please click here to register via Eventbrite.

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ABOUT ACANTHUS

Acanthus offers a collection of poems that dwell in the landscapes of the northern and southern hemispheres, evoking myth and fantasy and romance, as they move between observation and imagination. At the heart of Potter’s poetry is a keen awareness of the power of transformation, which brings the celestial and the physical, the imagined and the real closer to hand. The poems hold an ear to those wandering figures who, like Icarus, search the peripheries of those adjoining worlds for a way through, but instead often fall against the clockwork of the ordinary. Surreal gardens, repetitive geometry, rooms of clouds, witches and monsters, lie not outside the natural world but directly within it, mixing poetry and quotation, dream with prose. Each poem lies at an angle to the next, sitting as if within the net of a wider page, seeking to embody the radical arc of reading, reverie, and falling through literary spaces.

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ABOUT CLAIRE POTTER

Claire Potter was born in Perth and received an Australian Young Poets Fellowship from the Poets Union to write her first collection. She is the author of two full-length collections and two chapbooks as well as numerous essays and translations. Her poetry has been shortlisted for Premier’s Prizes, published in Poetry Chicago, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, New Statesman, and Poetry Ireland Review and translated into French and Chinese. She teaches at the Architectural Association London where she runs the AAWriting Centre.

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ABOUT PROFESSOR DANIEL BROWN

Professor Daniel Brown is currently Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London. The author of two books on Gerard Manley Hopkins, and another entitled The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense, he has written various essays on Thomas De Quincey, William Wordsworth, Edward Lear, Oscar Wilde, George Egerton, Thom Gunn, and Billy Wilder. He is currently writing a monograph on poetry and the place of women in Victorian science.

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