MCH Poetry - Kathy Kituai and Paul Cliff
Kathy Kituai has published a four-part radio documentary for NBC, seven poetry collections, five anthologies, a children’s picture book, and received two Canberra Critic Awards for her teaching in Scotland, South Australia, New South Wales, and the ACT since 1990, and foundered and facilitated Limestone Tanka Poets (2011 – 2021). She has also been a tanka editor for Cattails, creative editor for Muse magazine (twice) and assistant editor for Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, her poetry has been published in Japan, UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, India, and Australia and have won international awards. Her last tanka collection, Deep in the Valley of Tea Bowls, won the 2016 ACT Writing and Publisher Award. She has co-judged poetry competitions, including two for Manning Clark House (Canberra, ACT) and the 2022 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Competition.
Paul Cliff's sixth and most recent collection is Put Out More Prayer Flags, published in 2024 by Recent Work Press. His collection, A Constellation
of Abnormalities, won the ACT Publishing Award for Poetry in 2018. He has also won the David Campbell Poetry Award. He can be heard talking about his approach to writing, and reading sample poems ranging across a period of 30 years, in ArtSound FM’s ‘Poetry on the Radio’ series.
Paul Cliff's sixth and most recent collection is Put Out More Prayer Flags, published in 2024 by Recent Work Press. His collection, A Constellation
of Abnormalities, won the ACT Publishing Award for Poetry in 2018. He has also won the David Campbell Poetry Award. He can be heard talking about his approach to writing, and reading sample poems ranging across a period of 30 years, in ArtSound FM’s ‘Poetry on the Radio’ series.
Thursday 27 November 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (UTC+11)
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Manning Clark House
11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest act 2603
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MCH Poetry - Kathy Kituai and Paul Cliff
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