What writers read

6-7pm, Tuesday 26 August 2025 at Five Leaves Left, 41 Victoria St Hobart

Join author Maggie Mackellar as she talks to writer and editor Jane Rawson about Geoff Dyer’s, Out of sheer rage. The publisher says: “Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write..” Let’s find out if Maggie and Jane can do a better job of staying on topic.

In her latest book, Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life – and death – that surrounds her through the cycle of lambing seasons. She gives us the land she knows and loves, the lambs she cares for, the ewes she tries to save, the birds around her, and the dogs and horses she adores.