News and events for our library community
Teens aged 12 years old and over are invited to join us at Margaret River Library for Book Chat Club on Monday 29th January at 4pm for a 4.15 start.
At our Book Chat Club meetings we talk about the books we have read and give reviews and recommendations to other club members.
Book Chat Club is free with snacks provided and bookings are not required, simply head to the library at 4pm.
Are you looking for a distraction free, safe environment to write and meet other writers in our community?
Guided by writer and poet Ana Brawls, the group is open to any aspiring or experienced writer who would like:
For more information about the group or to RSVP contact Ana. Email: ana.brawls@icloud.com
Save the dates for future Community Writing Group nights: 26th March, 23rd April, 21st May, 18th June, 16th July. The library is a welcoming and easily accessible venue.
School is starting which means our regular children’s programs resume at your shire libraries.
Baby Rhyme Time, Storytime, Toddler Tales, Book Chat Club and Book Stars Club will be starting as the 2024 school term commences.
All regular children’s programs are run during school term and not on public holidays.
We hope to see you at the library soon!
Celebrate World Uke Day with songs and stories by Gary Burke and Scott Wise
RSVP to reserve a seat. Email: amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au or Ph: 9780 5600
Margaret River Library will be CLOSED on Friday 26th January for the Australia Day Public Holiday.
We apologise for any inconvenience. Feel free to use the after-hours chute for your returns.
Access to our online services is available at amrlibraries.com
This is a way for you to let us know which items you would like to use, if they are not available in our collection already.
Search Discovery to find the item. If it is not held within our collection, it will display as
To request the item, click on the Share button:
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We cannot provide a time-frame or a guarantee that it will be available to us, but we will do our best to supply the item 😊
We are thrilled to have Miriam Wei Wei Lo with us to facilitate a poetry workshop on the theme of ‘Writing about home: the poetry of complicated journeys’. This workshop will guide participants in finding their own voice and stories on this theme, with a focus on metaphor as a poetic device.
In early 2023 Miriam was awarded a Westerly Mid-Career Fellowship. While teaching creative writing at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education, she has also just published a new collection of works titled ‘Who Comes Calling’. Attending poetry workshops can help participants learn a new skill, find self-expression and there is no pressure or judgement, just the opportunity to learn and grow.
This 2 hour event is FREE, welcoming and easily accessible with light refreshments included. Spaces are limited for this workshop. Please RSVP to Email: amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au or Ph: 9780 5600
Miriam will share poetry from her new book ‘Who Comes Calling?’, followed by a conversation style interview with local poet Ana Brawls. Light refreshments will be provided after the talk.
Miriam lived in Margaret River for 11 years (some of you might remember her as Miriam Lochore), and many of the poems in this collection are set in Margaret River. Her poems are accessible and engaging and should appeal, not only to those who identify with her faith perspective, but also to those who are interested in embodied female experience, to lovers of poetry, and to anyone who likes to ask big questions.
“These are beautifully crafted poems that ask profound questions: Where is home? What does it mean to be a mother? Or a poet? Where is God in the face of inexplicable suffering?” WA Poets Press.
Her first book, Against Certain Capture, was a poetic re-telling of her grandmothers’ lives. It was published by Five Island Press as part of the New Poets 10 series in 2004. It was highly commended in the Anne Elder award and went on to win the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for poetry.
In early 2023 she was awarded a Westerly Mid-Career Fellowship. She teaches creative writing at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education and writes from a faith perspective that remains open to finding common ground with others.
Please RSVP to reserve your seat. Email: amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au or Ph: 9780 5600
Who Comes Calling? is Miriam’s latest poetry collection, recently published by Western Australian Poets Press.
Visit your local library to collect your Summer Reading Quest booklet!
The Adventure Card in the booklet has lots of fun literacy activities to complete in your quest to help find a new home for the SRQ aliens.
Come into one of your shire libraries soon to start the quest!
We’re back!
The Augusta and Margaret River libraries are now open.
We look forward to seeing you soon 🙂
Fearn Avenue, Margaret River WA 6285
Phone: (08) 9780 5600
Email: amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au