Out on the town in Surry Hills 19 October

I went to Kinsela’s for the launch of a new biography about Sasha Soldatow, a late luminary of Sydney’s literary scene. 

Unlike most of the people there I didn’t know Soldatow but still I enjoyed listening to bestselling author Christos Tsiolkas reminisce. Jonny Hawkins performed some of Soldatow’s provocative and thoughtful poems.

Afterward I made my way to another part of Surry Hills and to the Hollywood Hotel for a series of performances featuring “intimacy in the poetry of five women” under the rubric ‘Fashions for Living’, where people read and recited their poetry with verve and laughter.