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• Transit Lounge is pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of Love in the place of rats by Paul Hardacre
  Click here to download the invitation.
  
  Saturday 25 August 5.15pm
  The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival 2007
  The Bagging Room, CUB Malthouse
  113 Sturt St, Southbank
  RSVP by Thursday 24 August
  info@transitlounge.com.au
  or tel. O3 9332 7847
  
  To be launched by, and include the author in conversation with,
  Tom Shapcott AO
  Light refreshments will be served
  www.transitlounge.com.au
• You can also catch Paul speaking on the panel Publish or perish - An A-Z of alternative ways to get your name in print at The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival 2007. For more details click here.
• papertiger media invites you to help celebrate the launch of three new books of poetry from its imprint, soi 3 modern poets at The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival 2007. Click here for more details and to RSVP.

• Paul has recently published poems from his liber xix: differentia liber suite in Alchemy Journal, and has more forthcoming in the revamped online version of Salt, and foam:e.
• In March 2007, Melbourne-based publishers Transit Lounge published Paul’s second poetry collection, Love in the place of rats. Written between 2001 and 2003, Love in the place of rats has been thrice-shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Award for an unpublished poetry manuscript … so its publication with Transit Lounge is long overdue. More on this title here.
• In late 2006, Paul published two poems from his recent 19 poem suite, liber xix: differentia liber, in the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre's OBAN 06 online poetry anthology. His poems, 'and of certain rivers' and 'storm bones, sea' are in good company with poems by Ken Bolton, Robert Creeley, Laurie Duggan, Riemke Ensing, Michael Farrell, Michael Harlow, Jill Jones, Michele Leggott, and many more.