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Two well-known poets, Nora Crook and Natasha Crofts, held a poetry reading titled "The Meeting of Two Poets".
Nora Crook was born in Harbin. Later she moved to Shanghai, where she worked as a journalist. She made
friends with the leading poets of eastern emigration, Pereleshin and Andersen, and was acquainted with Vertinsky.
Later, in Hong Kong, Nora began to write in English and released her first poetry book,
"Even Though". Having moved Australia, Nora established herself as an English-language
poet: in 1993 she won the Australian literary prize "Jean Stone Award"; in 2000, "Women's
Union of Writers Award". In 2004 she published a second poetry book, "Skin for Comfort";
and in 2011, a book "Warming the Core of Things". At the same time, Nora Crook has always been
a Russian poet: her poems in Russian were included in the book "Russian poetry of China"
(Moscow, 2001) as well as in periodicals in Russia, America, China, Israel and Australia.
In 2008, Nora Crook became a laureate of the literary festival "Antipodes: Russian literature
in Australia". Natasha Krofts was born in Kherson, graduated
from Moscow State University and Oxford University. Having started writing poetry at the age of
16, now Natasha is the author of three books of poetry and numerous articles in Russian
periodicals. Her poems in English were published in four anthologies of British poetry.
Natasha Krofts is the winner of several literary competitions including "Golden Pen of Russia", "Tsvetaeva's
Fall", "Pushkin in Britain".
She is the Chief Editor of the literary newspaper "Intellectual. Spb". Natasha also manages
the literary section in Unification, the Sydney's newspaper.The "Antipodes" association holds
regular meetings at which you can hear poems in the Russian language.