Upcoming Public Programming
Poetry @ Dax
Anne M. Carson | Anne Elvey | Jessica Wilkinson | Sandy Jeffs
Thursday 29 October 6-8pm
We are excited to announce that our beloved poetry reading sessions are coming back to the Dax Centre in 2026.
Join our Poetry Collection Manager Dr. Jennifer Harrison AM at the Dax Centre on Thursday 29 October for the first of two poetry evenings of the year to hear from four incredible Australian poets: Anne M Carson, Anne Elvey, Jessica Wilkinson and Sandy Jeffs.
Where: The Dax Centre, Kenneth Myer Building, 30 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC
When: Thursday 27 October, 6-8pm
Tickets: Free. RSVPs are essential.
The gallery is fully accessible.
Donations are welcome to support our ongoing exhibitions and events at the Dax Centre.
About the poets
Anne M Carson
Dr Anne M Carson is a community creative writing teacher, poet and essayist living on unceded Bunurong Country. In 2026 she won the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize; while her PhD received an Outstanding Dissertation Prize (AERA 2024). She recently published her fifth poetry collection, George Sand (and Me): a poetic biography.
Anne Elvey
Anne Elvey lives on unceded Bunurong Country, as a settler descendent of Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. Her poetry collections include: (C)loud: A poetic response to child sexual abuse in Roman Catholic church (Palaver, 2025) and Intents (Liquid Amber, 2025). Anne was inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal.
Jessica Wilkinson
Jessica Wilkinson is the author of three poetic biographies, and is currently working on a fourth about artist Mirka Mora. She is the editor of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry and a professor in creative writing at RMIT University.
Sandy Jeffs
Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976 when it was considered something from which you could not recover, Sandy Jeffs was among the first wave of people in the 1980s who started speaking publicly about living with a mental illness. Much of her writing has been about living with schizophrenia. Sandy has published 8 volumes of poetry, a memoir and co-authored an oral history of Larundel Psychiatric hospital.