Poetry reading event cancelled

A POETRY reading event due to be held at Melbourne’s North Eastern Jewish Centre this Sunday, November 3 has been cancelled.

The reading, based on Jewish themes, was due to be given by poet Alex Skovron, who was born in Poland and lived briefly in Israel until his family emigrated to Australia in 1958 when he was aged nearly 10.

From the early 1970s he worked as an editor for various book publishers in Sydney and Melbourne, in the reference, educational, children’s, trade, and literary fields.

Skovron’s poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas.

His six published collections to date are: The Rearrangement (1988, winner of the Anne Elder and Mary Gilmore awards for a first collection and shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Awards), Sleeve Notes (1992), Infinite City (1999, shortlisted in the Age Book of the Year and Victorian Premier’s Awards), The Man and the Map (2003), Autographs (a volume of prose-poems, 2008), and Towards the Equator: New & Selected Poems (2014, shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for 2015).

Other awards for his writing have included the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry (twice), the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award (twice), the Manuel Gelman Memorial Prize for Literature, and the Australian Book Review Poetry Prize.

For information on future NEJC events, visit www.nejc.com.au.