First Chapters Q&A with Lisa Gorton
Lisa Gorton has a PhD on the poety of John Donne from the University of Oxford. She is a poet and novelist, essayist and reviewer. Her first poetry collection, Press Release , won the Victoria Premier's Award for Poetry; he second, Hotel Hyperion , was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. Lisa's novel, The Life of Houses , was the co-winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction. Lisa will be reading from her recent collection of poetry, Empirical , for us at First Chapters on Friday 6 March. 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work. Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? I'll read something from my most recent poetry collection Empirical . It's a book about place, memory and empire and its first sequence is set in Royal Park. 2. How would you describe your writing? As a reader's writing. 3. What was the first book that you read (or had read to you) that left a