66 We're Not the Centre of the Universe

Poet Don McKay, winner of the 2007 Griffin Prize for Poetry, is one of those rare writers who is able to make subtle and significant ideas accessible. This afternoon he premieres a suite of poems commissioned by the Greenest Cities Conversation Project. Writing about simple everyday objects like a pair of boots, a walking stick and a rocking chair, McKay proposes a provocative new perspective on how we understand the world. This approach is the underpinning of new ideas in environmentalism and it is affecting how we understand the relationship between human activity and the natural world. Join the conversation, because these poems have the power to alter the way you look at the world around us.

Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the door 45 minutes before the event begins.