Join us at Blarney Books for an intimate gathering of poetry, wine, and conversation. Award-winning performance poets Damien Becker and Sarah Temporal are touring from the Northern Rivers NSW, each celebrating the release of a new collection: Tight Bindings and Thin Reed Throat. Partners on and off the page, they look forward to sharing their journey with Port Fairy friends and book-lovers. 

Damien Becker is a prize-winning poet who writes about living with cystic fibrosis. He won the 2025 Flying Islands manuscript prize for his debut collection Thin Reed Throat, described as an 'uplifting story that moves easily... between laugh-out-loud funny and tear-evoking.’ 

Sarah Temporal's poetry explores the stories we tell and the secrets we keep. Her first collection Tight Bindings arrived after 20 years of live performance. Sarah runs Poets Out Loud in the Northern Rivers region to empower voices of all ages.