Poets of the Bega Valley Shire Audio Project

Welcome to the home page of the Poets of the Bega Valley Shire Audio Project, conceived to capture the authentic voices of our poets. The project began in 2007 with six recordings capturing all the poets who were independently published to book level at the time. The readings are accompanied by an interview.

Meet the poets:

Max Williams (1930-2012)

Nance Cookson (1926-2024)

Venie Holmgren (1922-2016)

Ian McFarlane

Anna Buck  (1948-2018)

Tim Metcalf

Ken Smeaton and Other Poets

Poetry mentioning the Bega Valley District

From the launch 2008

Meet the production team