What the Light Tells is part of the Blue Square Art Prize and will be presented at the Bowral and District Art Society (BDAS) gallery in Bowral on June 5.

Several award-winning poets including Tegan Gigante, Peter Ramm, Alison Whitelock and Mark Tredinnick will share their work during the evening.

The event presented by Arthead/Artheart will open at 7.30pm for an 8pm start.

It will be launched by renowned Highlands poet and essayist Mark Tredinnick.

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He will read poems from his brand-new book Walking Underwater to be launched on the night.

Meanwhile, Mark's brother Russell, a composer and singer, has set many of the poems from Mark's 2020 collection A Gathered Distance to music.

Russell and his band, Teddychook, will debut those songs at the event.

Tegan Gigante lives and writes along the Loddon River, near Castlemaine, in Central Victoria. Her first collection, All Things Flow, was published in 2019.

She is a poet, musician, painter, broadcaster and publisher. Her press, Birdfish Books, published Mark's A Gathered Distance in 2020 and will publish his fifth collection A Beginner's Guide in 2022.

Peter Ramm, a young poet from Robertson, has taken home a number of Australian and overseas poetry awards in the last few years. His first collection of poems, Waterlines to a Kingfisher, comes out in 2022.

Alison Whitelock, native of Glasgow, bard of Stanwell Park, is a memoirist and poet. Her second collection, The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair (longlisted for the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal) has garnered wonderful reviews across the globe.

Alison is a regular on radio and at festivals here, there, and everywhere. Renowned for her wit and warmth, Alison makes poetry fun again.

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