RISE RALLY REST with Scott-Patrick Mitchell at the National Library

Overview

Join poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell, to discuss their recent Fellowship at the National Library which has focused on laying research groundwork for a new poetry collection titled RISE RALLY REST.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell is the 2025 Creative Arts Fellow in Australian Writing, supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust.

Entry to this event is free but bookings are essential. If you cannot attend in-person, the conversation will be available online. Please make a booking and we will send you a direct link to the livestream event via email. Or you can join through the Library's YouTube channel.

During their Fellowship, Mitchell has delved into some of the Library's queer archives and begun work on the poetry collection RISE RALLY REST. This collection explores the roles celebration (RISE), activism (RALLY) and aging into queerness and suburbia (REST) play in the LGBTIQA+ community. This collection honours the past while inspiring the future.