Alex McKeown is a Tasmanian poet, translator, playwright and software engineer. His work has appeared in Island, Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite and The Canberra Times. His chapbook of translations from the French of Antoinette Deshoulières, Love in the Fields, was published in 2022 by the UK’s Penteract Press and his debut full-length collection, We Leave Gaps, was recently published by Walleah Press. You can come and see Alex read at the festival, festival passes have been released and are available to purchase here
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