- Exiles Bookshop
Exiles Bookshop was a Sydney bookshop which hosted many poetry readings, and was something of a centre for the local poetry scene in the early 1980's. It was established, at 207 Oxford Street, Taylor Square, by Susumu Hirayanagi and Nicholas Pounder in February
1979 , and it closed in late1982 [Laurie Duggan's diary] . Poetry readings were held there frequently, where local poets such asJohn Tranter , John Forbes,Laurie Duggan ,Martin Johnston , andS. K. Kelen read their work. Poets from other countries, includingHans Magnus Enzensberger [ [http://www.asauthors.org/web_of_poets/Tranter/poems/enzensberger.html John Tranter's poem 'Enzensberger at Exiles Bookshop'] ] , also visited the bookshop.Gary Snyder read there on 17 September 1981 [Laurie Duggan's diary] .References
* [http://www.austlit.com/a/duggan/d3poetry-wars.html Excerpt from Laurie Duggan's diary] — there are frequent references to "Exiles"
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* [http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-February-1998/mead.html Essay on John Forbes by Philip Mead] , mentioning "that lively group of younger writers associated with New Poetry magazine, Exiles bookshop and Watters' gallery"
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