Event - Help keep Collected Works alive - Wednesday 8 December
What’s happening?
Friends of Collected Works Raffle Draw and Party
When?
Pre Christmas Shopping until 8 December, $25+ purchase qualifies for raffle drawn on 8 December
Where?
Collected Works Bookshop
Level 1, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St., Melbourne CBD, 3000
Tel 9654 8873
How much?
Buy a book!
What’s the best train/tram?
Flinders Street Station, up Swanston St to Flinders Lane intersection; the Nicholas Building cannot be missed
Where can we get more information?
Collected Works bookshop Facebook page
Tell us about the group:
Friends of Collected Works are different sets of supporters who have come together to assist the Shop through a tricky commercial time. They’re mostly readers and writers who’ve followed the fortunes of the Shop since the 80s, 90s, 00s…
What will people experience?
The buzz of being at Melbourne Poetry HQ with numerous like minded people!
What’s your favourite memory at current address?
The big launches eg, the Dorothy Porter Memorial reading in 2009; the relocation reading for the shop in 2003.... And Barry Humphreys sweeping into the shop with film crew in train declaring in inimitable voice, This is my favourite bookshop!
Why should people check it out?
To help keep a unique readers and writers bookshop in the black
What makes your bookshop unique?
Originally a collective of writers, editors, small press publishers, its speciality in poetry & related literature is unequalled in Australasia… It’s a cultural hub as well as a bookshop… It is independent!
What’s a book launch like at Collected Works?
Book launches are very collaborative with poets &/or presses we know. They usually include the poet reading and responding to the launcher’s speech. It’s a free gig, and catered. Because it is a bookshop and not a theatre the supporters stand and sit around the shop. Friendly but respectful, attentive.
How often do you have launches?
Average one a month
When can people come into the store?
Usual business hours, 9-30 til 5.30. For a launch door stays open…
Usual function time is 6 for 6.30
What’s your favourite memory of the current location?
The big functions which are celebrations of the shop’s existence as a readers’ & writers’ bookstore as well as the event itself : eg, the relocation ‘buy a book’ benefit arranged by Messers Smeaton & McBryde in 2003; the launch of Best Australian Poetry organised by Messers Downey & McKimmie ; the Dorothy Porter memorial reading in 2009 organised by Jenny Harrison & Gig Ryan.... But also such a happening as Barry Humphreys sweeping into the shop with the media in train, declaring Collected Works his favourite bookshop and holding court for an hour!
The raffle/ party on Wednesday 8 December will be the conclusion of the pre-Christmas shopping week for which every purchase of $25 or more qualifies! It’s an opportunity for all friends of the shop to come together and celebrate the shop and its Future!
