Live@TheTurningPage #1
“that’s where it’ll come from
the north or the west”
Harry Laing, Fire
The poets assemble for the inaugural
Live@TheTurningPage!
Join us as we present 4 exceptional poets from around the Blue Mountains and beyond, for an evening of
words
wine
and warmth!
With readings from Blue Mountains locals, Diana Levy, Carol Major, Emma Brazil, and special guest poet, Harry Laing!
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Tuesday 27 May 2025
6.30-7.30pm
The Turning Page Bookshop
Shop 1/125 Macquarie Road Springwood
Entry fee - $15
Places are limited
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​This event is wheelchair accessible. Street parking or car park at rear.
About the Poets
Emma Brazil is a poet and teacher who has called the Blue Mountains home for 20 years. Emma holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing (UTS) and her writing has been published, performed and read in a variety of settings, including the Blue Mountains Writers Festival and the Sydney Writers Festival. Her poetry was selected for the HSC English Papers 2024.
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Diana Levy is an author, poet and walks leader in the Blue Mountains where she has lived for 36 years. A zen student for 48 years, she founded and led the Blue Mountains Yatras from 2010 to 2014, leading mindful meditative walks. Diana has written for the Blue Mountains Heritage Journal, her poems and haiku have been published in Australia, Japan and the US. Diana is finishing a book about her walks in Gundungurra country in the ‘haibun’ style.
Carol Major was born in Scotland, later completed her education in Canada and now lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Her short stories and poems have been published in Canadian and Australian journals, and she has authored numerous articles in health care, social policy and urban design. Carol’s memoir, The Asparagus Wars was shortlisted for the International Beverly Prize for Literature and the Mark and Evette Moran NIB Award.
Carol’s poetry has also been performed in Katoomba by the creative trio, Dreams of Falling, which combines poetry, prose, music and lush music soundscapes with humour, intelligence and enormous energy.
Carol is an alumni and valued mentor at Varuna, Australia’s National Writers House.
Harry Laing is a poet, comic performer and a children’s author — with four collections for adults, and three books of poetry for children to his name. He regularly appears as a guest author in schools.
Harry also MC’s the PoetryAlive@Stanley Street Gallery poetry readings (Sydney) and together with poet Nicola Bowery runs the PoetryAlive poetry weekends at Geebung, near Braidwood, NSW. His latest book, Time of Fire, is a dramatic account of his experience of the 2019/ 20 fires both as a landholder living on the edge of Monga National Park on the NSW Southern Tablelands and as a volunteer with the NSW Rural Fire Service.
in the stun-scape in the burn-scape
in the black of so much dying
there were days of almost nothing
of the living there was nothing
but the falling just a smatter
and a falling of the colour
of the dead leaves’ silent scatter
…after all the death and taking
you’re so much closer to the living
there’s a fierceness to the living
when you start again from nothing