Australian poet Michael Farrell will read some of his work in English, and Italian translations will also be read, at the Keats-Shelley House on Friday 27 June at 17.00.

Farrell is the Australia Council BR Whiting Studio resident in Rome. He co-edited Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets; is included in the recent US Turnrow Anthology of Australian Poetry and inOutcrop: Radical Australian Poetry of Land, and his own publications include open sesame and the thorn with the boy in its side.

The museum's standard entrance fees apply and numbers are limited to 25 so advance booking is recommended. For details see website.