Exiles Bookshop was a Sydney bookshop which hosted many poetry readings, and was something of a centre for the local poetry scene in the early 1980s. It was established, at 207 Oxford Street, Taylor Square, by Susumu Hirayanagi and Nicholas Pounder in February 1979, and it closed in late 1982.Laurie Duggan's diary
Poetry readings were held there frequently, where local poets such as
John Tranter
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Dorothy Porter
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Martin Johnston
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Alan Jefferies
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read their work.
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, winner of the 2012
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mentioning "that lively group of younger writers associated with ''New Poetry'' magazine, Exiles bookshop and
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