#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
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Learn the tricks of the trade as Steven Herrick shares writing tips and presents some of his all-time favourite poems.
Like all his books, Steven’s twenty-first book Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend, began with location and character. In Pookie Steven wanted to write about primary school children living in a small country town where everyone knows everyone else. His every day characters are literary devices for exploring friendship, community, and identity, that offer students the opportunity to reconsider their own place in the world.
#Artist
Steven Herrick
Steven Herrick is the author of twenty-three books for children and young adults. He is widely regarded as a pioneer of the verse-novel genre. His books have been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards on eight occasions and he has twice won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. He also writes travel books and loves cycling (the transport used around the world), football (the game played around the world), and food (the stuff eaten around the world!). Steven’s books include Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend, Love Poems and Leg Spinners, and Another Night in Mullet Town. Steven’s first novel in verse, Love, Ghosts & Nose Hair, and its sequel A Place Like This, celebrate a special reissue from the University of Queensland Press this year.
