Category: Events

Last minute gig: Reading at Christmas Hills, 26 Jun 2025

Delighted to once again be a ring-in feature for Poetry at Chrissy Hills on Thursday night in the beautiful Christmas Hills, following the last minute scratching of Gayelene Carbis.

I will read from my first book, Hyperbole, and work from a new project, Minor Responses to Major British Poets.

It’s a super friendly, inclusive and well-attended gig that is a real community event, full of local characters. Tea, coffee and supper snacks served. It will be too dark to see kangaroos at this time of year but there should be beautiful country stars.

Would love to see people.

Full deets:

Christmas Hills Mechanics’ Institute Hall. 787 Ridge Road, Christmas Hills, VIC, Melway 265 H12

7.30pm Thursday June 26th

$5 Entry (cash)

With Open Mic

Performing at Queensland Poetry Festival, 5 June 2022

Super excited to be performing at Queensland Poetry Festival in Meanjin (Brisbane) on 5 June 2022. Check out the whole program for 3-5 June, or my events are:

  • Coming Through – a panel on mental illness and poetry with Thabani Thsuma, Emma Simington, Rebecca Cheers and me – and Es Foong as host. Sunday 5 June, 11.30am-1pm. Tix from $10.
  • Evening reading – with Sarah Holland-Batt, Thabani Tshuma, Es Foong and me. Sunday 5 June, 6.30 to 8pm. Tix from $10.

Canberra launch at Recent Work Readings (online): Belinda Rule and Ross Donlon (with open mic), 15 Nov 2021, 7pm-9pm AEDT

As part of the That Poetry Thing readings, please come along for the Canberra launch of two new Recent Work titles: Hyperbole by Belinda Rule and For the record by Ross Donlon, on Monday 15 Nov 2021, 7pm – 9pm AEDT, on Zoom.

Open Mic: Limited to 10 poets reading for 3 mins each. Spaces can be reserved on the night, or pre-book by following the instructions at the link below.

This event is free and open to the public. Zoom link will be provided one hour before the event begins. Full details on the public facebook listing (facebook login not required).

[updated] Book mini-launch: Hyperbole by Belinda Rule, at Cherry Poets (online)

You are invited to the online launch of Belinda Rule’s debut full-length poetry collection, Hyperbole, from Recent Work Press. The launch will be part of Cherry Poets‘ regular Saturday afternoon gig, on Saturday 9 October 2021, 2pm to 5pm AEDT.

Event is free. Zoom link will be posted here at 12 noon on the day.

  • Open mic from 2pm (poets, please sign up in the Zoom chat at the start)
  • Book launch segment commences about 4.40pm 4pm.

Belinda will be interviewed by Shane Strange, publisher at Recent Work Press, and will read from Hyperbole.

More information and Zoom link when available

Reading at: Striving to Talk Poetry: An 80 Years of Meanjin Event, 1 Jun 2021, University of Melbourne

Reading with some very bright lights of OzPo for this event to celebrate 80 years of Meanjin!

Event starts 5:30pm for a 6pm start in the Main Dining Room of University House, 117 Professors’ Walk, at the University of Melbourne.

Event is free but registration is essential. Register via Meanjin website.

The Things the Mind Sees Happen – Poetry Chapbook

The Things the Mind Sees Happen – Poetry Chapbook

Very excited to announce my poetry chapbook The Things the Mind Sees Happen will be launched in Newcastle and Melbourne, and will be available for purchase from Puncher and Wattmann on or after 2 November 2019.

In honour of the occasion, my website has had a refresh, and released its previous extremely witty (or so I thought about 15 years ago) URL in favour of my name, as I understand is customary among the youth of today.

‘The Road North From Toodleton’ digital long story released + interview with me + join the book club!

‘The Road North From Toodleton’ digital long story released + interview with me + join the book club!

Yay…

‘The Road North From Toodleton’ digital long story, part of the Amanda Lohrey Selects Series from Spineless Wonders, is now available for purchase for $0.99. Or you can subscribe to the series and receive all twelve stories for $9.99. Blurb and purchase info (for pdf format) at Spineless Wonders or if you prefer other formats, Blurb and epub and mobi formats from Tomely.

You can also join the Spineless Wonders Bookclub on facebook, where you can sometimes score freebies, and where I will be available for your questions and general gratuitous persecution on Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 8:00pm (Australian EST).

There is also an interview with me on the Spineless Wonders website in which I bang on about my writing process, why I like long stories better than short, and gender in Australian literary culture.

Join the bookclub for Amanda Lohrey Selects ebook long stories, persecute me, and win!

Join the bookclub for Amanda Lohrey Selects ebook long stories, persecute me, and win!

My story ‘The Road North From Toodleton’ is coming out soon as an e-single in Spineless Wonders’ Amanda Lohrey Selects series.

Join the facebook bookclub for this series for chances to get free copies of the stories. First live discussion event is 8 August 2013. Also you can persecute me when my story is up for discussion in a wee while…
https://www.facebook.com/groups/spinelesswondersbookclub/

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