Wednesday luncheon #5093 with Peter Goldsworthy at Coopers Brewery

This week lunch meeting will be held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...Coopers Brewery Visitors Centre, 230 Regency Road, Regency Park

Please book on our website by Wednesday April 1 11am to secure your place! No walk ins allowed as seats are strictly limited!

Food service commences 1:05pm

  Guest Speaker Peter Goldsworthy

Death and the Comedian

Peter Goldsworthy combines writing with the practice of medicine.  He has won literary awards across a range of genres, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, and, together with composer Richard Mills,  the inaugural Helpmann Award for Best New Work for the opera Batavia.  His 1995 novel Wish has been reissued in the Text Classics series, his 1988 novel Maestro as an Angus & Robertson Australian Classic, and Honk If you Are Jesus (1992) last year in the Untapped Heritage series.  His novels have been widely translated, and adapted for the stage, as have his short stories   He has also written opera libretti for the composers Luke Styles and Graeme Koehne.  Online, his poetry can be read and heard at The Poetry Archive,  and read at The Poetry Foundation.  His most recent book is The Cancer Finishing School, published by Penguin Viking.

He was awarded the Medal of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List for Services for Literature in 2015, and an Honorary Doctor of Arts from the University of Adelaide in 2022.

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Please note the venue - Coopers Brewery Visitors Centre, 230 Regency Road, Regency Park