Exiles Bookshop
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Exiles Bookshop was a Sydney bookshop which hosted many poetry readings, and was something of a centre for the local poetry scene in the early 1980's. It was established, at 207 Oxford Street, Taylor Sqaure, by Susumu Hirayanagi and Nicholas Pounder in February 1979, and it closed in late 1982[1]. Poetry readings were held there frequently, where local poets such as John Tranter, John Forbes, Laurie Duggan, Martin Johnston, and S. K. Kelen read their work. Poets from other countries, including Hans Magnus Enzensberger[2], also visited the bookshop. Gary Snyder read there on 17 September 1981[3].
[edit] References
- Excerpt from Laurie Duggan's diary — there are frequent references to Exiles
[edit] Notes
- ^ Laurie Duggan's diary
- ^ John Tranter's poem 'Enzensberger at Exiles Bookshop'
- ^ Laurie Duggan's diary
[edit] External links
- Essay on John Forbes by Philip Mead, mentioning "that lively group of younger writers associated with New Poetry magazine, Exiles bookshop and Watters' gallery"
