Upcoming Readings
Sydney Writer’s Festival 2026, 23 May 2026
YA Program
Manly Writers’ Festival 2026
Multiple Events
10th Festival of Surrealisms, 14-15 March 2026
Temperance Hall 199 Napier St, South Melbourne VIC 3205
Featuring Robbie Coburn performing the poetry of Antonin Artaud.
FULL TIME, 13 February 2026
Footscray Hotel, 48 Hopkins Street VIC 3011
Performances by Steam Four, Brigitte Hart, TVISB & Robbie Coburn, LB Pounds, Molly Arnol and DJ Milk Sibling
Selected Past Readings
Cherry Poets Featuring Robbie Coburn, 15 November 2025
Cherry Tree Hotel, l53 Balmain Street, Cremorne, VIC, 3121
Bendigo Writers Festival 2025, 15 August 2025
Tell It In Verse with Steven Herrick, Pip Harry and Robbie Coburn
New 5 Islands Press First Anniversary, 4 July 2025
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Bluestone Church Art Space 8A Hyde Street Footscray, VIC, 3011
100 Years of Francis Webb – Tribute Readings, 25 June 2025
The Dax Centre
4:00pm
The evening will feature readings by Alice Allan, Robbie Coburn, John Hawke, Sandy Jeffs, Jacinta Le Plastrier, Mal McKimmie, Peter Otto, Peter Rose, Philip Salom and Alex Skovron. Hosted by Dr Jennifer Harrison and Toby Davidson.
Launch of The Foal in the Wire, 6 June 2025
6:00pm
Readings Kids Wurundjeri Country, 315 Lygon St, Carlton
Launched by Karen Comer
La Mama Poetica Dec 2024: Portraits and Dreamscapes, 10 December 2024
8:00pm - 10:00pm
La Mama Courthouse Theatre 349 Drummond Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053
Chamber Poets #104 Ft. Robbie Coburn, 12 October 2024
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Woodend RSL 32 Anslow Street Woodend, VIC, 3442
Where I Come From: A Cruise Celebrating the Life and Poetry of Robert Adamson, 2 December 2023
Hosted by Words on the Waves
Patonga Wharf, Patonga Rd, Patonga NSW 2256
Featuring performances by Luke Davies, Judith Beveridge, Claire Potter, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Robbie Coburn and Steve Hoy. Hosted by Michele Seminara
Newcastle Writers Festival 2023, March 31 – April 2 2023
Multiple Events and venues
Canberra Writers Festival 2022, 10 – 14 August 2022
Multiple Events and Venues
Launch of Luke Best’s ‘Cadaver Dog’, 24 September 2020
Avid Reader Bookshop (via zoom)
Featuring readings by Robbie Coburn, Anna Jacobson and others.
Words in Winter Festival, 25 August 2019
The Blackbird Café, Newstead
Featuring Readings by Robbie Coburn, Ken Smeaton, Michelle Leber and Katherine Seppings
Launch of ‘Gang of One’ by Robert Harris, 28 May 2019
Readings Carlton 309 Lygon St, 3053, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Featuring Readings by Alan Wearne, Judith Beveridge, John Jenkins and Robbie Coburn
Launch of Rae Desmond Jones’ final collection, 27 April 2019
Dan O’Connell Hotel
Featuring readings by Robbie Coburn, John Jenkins, Gig Ryan and Mark Roberts
The Spiral Opening, 18 October 2016
The Old Bar 74-76 Johnston Street, 3065, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia
Featuring creative work about mental health. The event will include an art exhibition, live music and spoken word performances.
Perth Poetry Festival 2016, 11 August 2016 – Sunday 14 August 2016
Multiple Events and Venues
Guest poets are Kevin Brophy, Matt Hetherington (Qld), Robbie Coburn (Vic), Jennifer and Horst Kornberger, Josephine Clarke, Joni Boyd, Maddie Godfrey and Dora Smith.
Passionate Tongues featuring Robbie Coburn, 8 February 2016
The Brunswick Hotel 140 Sydney Rd, 3056, Brunswick, VIC
Dan Poets featuring Robbie Coburn, 23 January 2016
Dan O’Connell Hotel
Sporting Poets #14, 15 November 2015
Charles Weston Hotel 27 Weston St, 3057, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
With performances by Robbie Coburn, Anne Elvey and Justin Clemens
Reading of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’, 10 October 2015
Collected Works 1/37 Swanston Street, 3000, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
with performances by Π.Ο., Robbie Coburn, Andy Franks, Kris Hemensley, Michelle Leber, Jennifer Mackenzie, George Mouratidis, Sean O’Callaghan, David Pepperell, Benjamin Theolonious Sanders (Iq), Larry Schwartz, and Lucy Van. With hep rhythms by Nick Tsiavos
The Big Read to Celebrate NZ Poetry Day, 28 August 2015
Collected Works 1/37 Swanston Street, 3000, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
with performances by Amy Brown, Anne Carson, Coral Carter, Santo Cazzati, Libby Charlton, Robbie Coburn, Anne Elvey, Susan Fealy, Anna Fern, Anna Forsyth, Claire Gaskin, Jennifer Harrison, Andy Jackson, Ian McBryde, Maurice McNamara, Paul Mitchell, Kevin Pearson, Krish Prasad, Michael Reynolds, Gig Ryan, Steve Smart, Sophie Tarrant, Ellen van Neerven and Anne Vickery.
La Mama Poetica, 20 June 2015
La Mama Theatre 205 Faraday St, Carlton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Featuring Melinda Smith, Robbie Coburn, Fleassy Mallay and Kenneth Smeaton
Launch of Kin by Anne Elvey & Bluewren Cantos by Mark Tredinnick, 1 May 2014
1/37 Swanston Street, 3000, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
With performances by: Emily Zoey Baker, Bonny Cassidy, Robbie Coburn, Susan Fealy and Nam Le
The Next Big Thing at The Wheeler Centre, 3 March 2014
176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000
Featuring Suzanne McCourt, Robbie Coburn, Darrell Pitt, and Spiri Tsintziras.
Magazine Launch of Unusual Work No. 14, 22 June 2014
Grub Food Van, 87-89 Moor Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
with performances by Gemma White, Jeltje, Robbie Coburn, Sjaak de Jong, Marty Hiatt, Graham Twist, and Π.Ο.
Reading at Red Wheelbarrow Books, 1 June 2012
105 Lygon St East Brunswick, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Reading featuring poets & musicians Maxine Beneba Clarke, Robbie Coburn, Kim Kerze, Michelle Leber, Alan Musgrove and thalia