A night of poetry and performance at Rabble Books

Don’t miss Andrew Sutherland’s visit to Boorloo/Perth to launch their new poetry collection, Act Cute.

Held at Rabble bookshop on Thursday 10 July, Andrew will be joined by Rashida Murphy, as well as writers Casey Mulder, Prema Arasu and Marziya Mohammedali, who will also be reading.

Act Cute is the second poetry collection from Andrew, a Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker.

In this new collection, Andrew addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks how to perform a coherent self amidst the forces of nostalgia, institutional entanglements and reckonings, and queer desiring. Shifting between autofictive address and canonical personae, the structural codes of romantic drama uneasily frame the poet-as-actor through five sections, titled ‘Audition Sides’, ‘you stop me at the airport and tell me that you love me’, ‘twink death in Europa!!’, ‘Wedding Scenes’ and ‘forgiveness’.

Grab your tickets to this wonderful celebration on the Rabble Books website.

While you wait, why not read this moving poem by Andrew on The Writers Collective website?