Sydney Writers' Festival: The Poetry of Liao Yiwu
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on 21 May 2011
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Author, journalist and poet Liao Yiwu is known for performances that incorporate pipe, Tibetan prayer bowls and Chinese ritualistic chanting and howling to invoke the spirits of the dead. Here he performs the poetry that shocked a nation.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Free, no bookingsAbout The Festival:
The 2011 Sydney Writers' Festival proudly presents some of the world's finest poets, novelists and authors of literary nonfiction, including 2010 Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours and By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham; the acclaimed David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet) and Aminatta Forna (The Memory of Love), as well as internationally renowned Australians Peter Robb, Kim Scott, Markus Zusak, Sonya Hartnett and John Tranter.
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(02) 9250 1988
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