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UWA Publishing is delighted to have ten writers in the Perth Writers' Festival in March, 2011.

The festival will feature authors Raimond Gaita ( Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics , 2010), author of the prize-winning memoir Romulus, My Father ; Simone Lazaroo ( Sustenance , 2010), Kate Lilley ( Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett , 2010), Victoria Laurie ( The Kimberley: Australia's Last Great Wilderness , 2010), Richard Rossiter ( Arrhythmia: Stories of Desire , 2009), Amanda Curtin ( The Sinkings , 2008), and Fiona McGregor ( Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland , 2008).

The festival will also feature 2011 titles by Toby Davidson ( Francis Webb: Collected Poems ), Ian Reid ( The End of Longing ) and Suzanne Falkiner ( The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson and Australia ).

Francis Webb: Collected Poems is a splendid collection of poetry, introduced by Toby Davidson, that celebrates Webb's thirty-three year writing career and is essential reading for anyone who believes in the importance of Australian literature.

Ian Reid's first novel, The End of Longing , is a lyrical novel about a confidence trickster, set across two centuries and a travelogue of escape through Melbourne, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and the US.

The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson and Australia is a revealing portrait of a singular and intriguing writer who was a pioneer of literary themes explored decades later by Katharine Susannah Prichard, Randolph Stow and Patrick White.

More details are available on the Perth Writers' Festival website.

Media references

Sylvia Defendi (UWA Publishing) 61 8 6488 6804/ 0417 967 415

Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs) 61 8 6488 5563 / 0432 637 716