Cape Northumberland, SA, the setting for Gordon’s poem The Swimmer, BIG4 Holiday Parks

Colour and Light: Life and Death: Australian Poetry Set to Music

This concert features settings of Australian poetry by various composers, including Miriam Hyde, Margaret Sutherland, Horace Keats, and Colin Brumby. The poems, by Judith Wright, Adam Lindsay Gordon, John Shaw Neilson, Wilbur Howcroft and others, range from the pensively philosophical to the hilarious. Also includes works for cello and piano.

Presented by James Huon George, Gillian Dooley, Sally McLoughlin