POTM Summer readings #5 – Judith Beveridge - Listen - Poetry on

POTM Summer readings #5 – Judith Beveridge

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Judith Beveridge lives in Sydney. Her seventh collection of poetry, New and Selected Poems, will be published by Giramondo in 2018. Her previous volumes have won a number of prizes including NSW, Victorian and Queensland Premiers’ Poetry Awards, the Grace Leven Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Prize. She has also been a recipient of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. She was poetry editor for Meanjin from 2005–2015. Her work has been studied in schools and universities. This episode hosted by Shane Strange Sound production by Samuel Byrnand

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