This event is presented in partnership with Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne.
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Green Leaves
Join us at Centre for Stories for an engaging conversation about poetry and publication, in partnership with Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Featuring
- Manveen Kohli
See more about Manveen Kohli - Marise Philips
See more about Marise Philips - SoulReserve
See more about SoulReserve - J Eh Kaw Thaw Saw
See more about J Eh Kaw Thaw Saw
Jun 19, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Centre for Stories
So often writers expect greener pastures on the other side of publication. But what happens when the national book tours and thick royalty cheques don’t quite materialise?
Green Leaves brings you two poets: Manveen Kohli and Lakshmi Kanchi (SoulReserve) and their editors J Eh Kaw Thaw Saw and Marise Phillips in a panel discussion about their journeys from ‘Instagram poet’ to international publication, and everything in between.
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Manveen Kohli
Collapse BioManveen Kaur Kohli is a British-Indian poet residing in Western Australia. She is a two-time finalist in WA's Australian Poetry Slam. Manveen has performed at various events, including Neon Readings, Woman Scream, and Perth Poetry Festival. Manveen was raised in England before relocating to Dubai with her family at the age of 13. After graduating from Heriot-Watt University with a degree in Psychology, she moved to Perth and pursued a postgraduate degree in School Psychology. Manveen also studied a Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) at The University of Western Australia. Currently, she works as a Psychologist at a high school. Manveen strives to make a difference and empower people – poetry and psychology are two mediums that enable her to achieve these goals.
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Marise Philips
Collapse BioMarise Phillips is an emerging writer and editor based in Boorloo (Perth).
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SoulReserve
Collapse BioLakshmi Kanchi, pen name SoulReserve, is an emerging Western Australian poet of Indian descent. Her poetry explores love and its tumultuousness and fantasy and zest in nature. And her writing anatomises the complex linkages between history, language, culture and perception. Lakshmi is a dedicated Writing WA and WA Poets Inc. Board Member. Her debut collection, "Lakesong," was recently published by Centre for Stories which explores themes of love, nature, and culturation. She is the recipient of the 2023 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize and the 2021 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets. She was shortlisted twice in a row for the SCWC Wollongong’s Poetry Prize. Lakshmi's poetry has been featured in— ‘Social Alternatives,’ ‘Portside Review,’ ‘Burrow Journal,’ "The Saltbush Review", "Blue Bottle Journal", "Seagift Journal", "Recoil 12" and more. She was the inaugural Poet-in-Residence at The Wetlands Centre through 2022-23 where she worked on her mission to “make poetry accessible to everyone in the wider community”.
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J Eh Kaw Thaw Saw
Collapse BioJ Saw is a emerging writer who resides in Boorloo. He writes to stir wonder and awe and imagination exploring everything from the feared and the shrewd to the cherished and the loved. If you were to ask J to choose a superpower of his liking, he’d choose the power of writing. He believes writing is a vessel to anywhere and everywhere.
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