Kate Larsen Poetry Book Launch - Public. Open. Space.

Albany Public Library invites you to an in-conversation event with Kate Larsen and Barbara Temperton to launch Kate's latest poetry book Public. Open. Space.

Kate is a writer, and arts and cultural consultant currently based on Kaurna yerta in Tarntanya/Adelaide. As one of Australia's best known social media poets, her alter ego Katie Keys (@tinylittlepoems) wrote and posted a poem daily for over a decade. In 2018, Kate undertook and Asialink Arts Creative Exchange with the Hong Kong Arts Centre, which is where she started working on Public. Open. Space.

Public. Open. Space. is a collection of poetry inspired by spaces, places and situations that are controlled and contested online and in real life. Looking at firewalls and feminism, activism and apathy, Public. Open. Space. explores freedom and suppression, censorship and silencing, propaganda and protest, as well as the difference between being told no and choosing to say it ourselves.