Author Talk: "Love Like This Isn't Harmless"

August 2025 is "Love to Read Local" Month, a state-wide celebration of WA's many wonderful writers, poets, authors, novelists, and illustrators.

Bron Bateman's new book "Love Like This Isn't Harmless", is a collection of poems with startling detail, depth, and elegance. The poems range across themes of personal, social, and political gravity - mothering, childbearing and child loss, domestic tension and violence, genocide, ableism, medicine, medical misogyny, and disability.

Join us at Thornlie Library on August 29th for a reading and Q&A with local published author and poet, Bron Bateman. Bron will read from her new poetry collection "Love Like This Isn't Harmless", and discuss the book in greater depth. Attendees will be welcome to participate in the following Q&A session, where Bron will explore how love takes on plural meanings. In the words of the author herself, "Love is familial, queer, sensual, aching. Love is both challenging and easy, safe and dangerous, of wounds and of healing. While the meanings of love may startle many, this is not a shotgun stab in the dark".

Bron will also bring copies of her books to the event, for purchasing and signing by the author.

Adults only. Bookings are essential, and open to the public on the 14th of August, 2025. Click here to book your spot!