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History
'Australian Poetry’s Cafe Poet Program placed ‘poets in residence’ at cafes across the country from early 2009 to mid-2014. The program created a national network of poets who were given the space to write, showcase their poetry and engage with the community as part of their six month residencies. While having space to write is essential, many Café Poets also negotiated with the owners to create mutually beneficial programs which included poetry readings, book launches, poetry installations and innovative concepts which directly engaged the café patrons.' (Source: https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2016/08/12/11719/ )
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An Australian Poetry Centre initiative, the Cafe Poets Program provides residencies in Australian regional and city cafes. Successful poets write poetry in a cafe at arranged times and act as ambassadors for the Australian Poetry Centre. The residencies have a public objective, such as self-publishing a series of poems, public readings or workshops, or writing a poem for the cafe, and a personal objective, such as completing a book or a series of poems, or working on a particular project. The residencies are open to financial members of the Australian Poetry Centre.
Source Australian Poetry Centre website, www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au (sighted: 05/05/2009)
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Poet Parks Her Pen at Tilley's 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 May 2009; (p. 9)
