Presented in partnership with Dymocks Rundle Mall Adelaide from 2013 – 2017, the Dead Poets Society event paid tribute to poets who have inspired us. Local poets and authors presented an overview of the poet’s work, along with samples of their own work inspired by the Dead Poet. An open mic segment allows members of the audience to get up and share a poem inspired by that month’s ‘Dead Poet’. Occasionally,“live” poets launch their own books and present their own work.
Highlights of the 2017 season included:
- Carol Ann Duffy (Alison Flett)
- D.H. Lawrence (Val Braendler)
- John Keats (David Mortimer)
- Clive James (Bronwyn Lovell)
2016
Local and live – Manal Younus
Banjo Patterson (John Sabine)
Rainer Maria Rilke (Karl Cameron-Jackson)
Anne Sexton (Marianne North)
Janet Frame (Kerryn Tredrea)
Sarah Kay (Roisin Maeve)
2015
Mary Oliver (Pam Maitland)
Tahirih (Amrein Roshanak & Delia Olam)
Gertrude Stein (Ian Gibbins)
ee cummings (rob walker)
Judith Wright (Rachael Mead)
Wilfred Owen (Elaine Barker)
Federico Garcia Lorca (Avalanche)
C.P. Cavafy (Tracey Korsten)
Local and live – Erica Jolly
2014
Dorothy Porter (Jill Jones)
Henry Rollins (John Scott)
Ern Malley (Amelia Walker)
T.S. Eliot (Heather Taylor Johnson)
Walt Whitman (Avalanche)
Local and live – Amrein Roshanak
Seamus Heaney (Jennifer Liston)
Jack Kerouac (Bruce Greenhalgh)
Maya Angelou (Poet MJ)
2013
Sylvia Plath (Kerryn Tredrea)
Local and live – Indigo Eli
Charles Bukowski (Kami)
Pablo Neruda (Juan Garrido-Salgado)
Allen Ginsberg (David Jobling)
