Pride: Poetry After Dark with Bron Bateman

Join award-winning poet, editor, and educator, Bron Bateman, as she celebrates what it means to be a queer, disabled poet, and explores the need for queer stories of sex, feminism and body politics to be shared during Pride Week and beyond. She will shine a lens on queer experiences and culture as she reads from her collections of poetry, including ‘Of Memory and Furniture’, ‘Blue Wren’ and her latest collection, ‘Love Like This isn’t Harmless.’

About the presenter:

Bron Bateman is a poet, editor, playwright, and educator from Boorloo (Perth). Her first poetry collection, People from bones was published by Ragged Raven Press (UK) in 2002. Her PhD, a collection of poetry and an exegesis exploring female embodiment and experiences of motherhood was completed in 2012. Her second collection, Of Memory and Furniture, which was Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Poetry in 2021, was published by Fremantle Press in 2020. Her third collection, Blue Wren, was published by Fremantle Press in 2022. Her work has been published in collections and journals such as Westerly, Southerly, Cordite Poetry Review, and the Australian Poetry Journal. In 2004 she was awarded the Bobbie Cullen Memorial Prize for Creative Writing. In 2017 she received Columbia University’s Winter Poetry Prize and in 2021 and 2024 she was shortlisted and commended for the Tom Collins National Poetry Prize. Her edited anthology Women of a Certain Courage was published by Fremantle Press in 2025. Her fourth collection is Love Like This Isn’t Harmless, with Fremantle Press.

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