Castlemaine poet and bent street contributor Rob Wallis is launching his new collection of poems Down Rainbow Road.

When: 2.30pm, Saturday 22 May

Where: Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, 3450

Free event. Drinks available at bar prices. To be launched by Nathan Curnow.

Down Rainbow Road includes two new sequences of poems by Rob Wallis. Inheritance is a multi-voice history of Australian gay experience from the earliest days of exploration and settlement. Muscular Flirtations gathers more personal reflections on a life-struggle towards acceptance and love. The selected poems present the variations of Rob’s poetry through five earlier collections. The cover is by regular bent street contributor and Sydney Sentinel columnist Guy James Whitworth.

ISBN: 9780987403773

RRP: $29.95

Published by Clouds of Magellan Press

Available now (walk-in and buy + online) at Hares & Hyenas bookshop, and The Bookshop Darlinghurst – also online from the usual globe-straddling behemoths.