35. Looking Closely: Lisa Gorton and Bella Li
About this episode
This episode features a conversation between poets Lisa Gorton and Bella Li about poetry, visual art, and the interplay of history and invention.
In this episode of Fully Lit , we bring you a live recording from Melbourne with two poets in conversation, Lisa Gorton and Bella Li. Gorton reflects on nearly two decades of writing, moving between history, visual art and poetry. The discussion centres on the new sequence Caesars , where the Mona Lisa opens out into questions of looking, perception and meaning and how images continue to speak across time. It's a rich conversation about poetry, visual art, and the creative tension between history and invention. Voices Lisa Gorton is a poet, novelist and essayist whose work has won major Australian literary awards, including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Fiction and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Her recent poetry collection is Mirror Landscape (2024). Bella Li is the author of Argosy , Lost Lake and Theory of Colours . A winner of the Victorian and NSW Premier’s literary awards for poetry, her work has appeared in HEAT , The Saturday Paper and Australian Poetry Journal . Credits This episode of Fully Lit was made on Gadigal land in Sydney. Fully Lit podcast is brought to you by Impact Studios at UTS, the Sydney Review of Books , and the UTS Writing and Publishing…
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