08 Sep In conversation: James Bradley and Adam Ouston, Sydney 16 September
Tasmanian author Adam Ouston will discuss his new novel Mine with acclaimed writer and critic James Bradley at Better Read Than Dead in Sydney.
Set in the mountain rainforests of western Tasmania, Mine follows an ageing poet and environmental activist who becomes trapped in an abandoned mine while searching for inspiration for what he believes will be his final work. As he waits in the darkness, his predicament opens onto the contested environmental history of Tasmania: mining, extraction, extinction, wilderness, protest and the complicated question of what it means to belong to a place.
Written as a single continuous sentence, the novel moves between the poet’s memories and Tasmania’s histories of environmental exploitation and resistance, asking how landscapes retain the traces of what has been done to them, and how literature might reckon with the continuing conflict between ecological value and extractive capitalism.
Ouston will be in conversation with James Bradley, whose fiction and nonfiction have long engaged with climate change, extinction and the more-than-human world.
Wednesday 16 September 2026, 6.30–8.00 pm
Better Read Than Dead
265 King Street, Newtown NSW 2042
Organised by Better Read Than Dead.
Tickets and further information:
https://www.betterreadevents.com/events/mine-launch-adam-ouston-in-conversation-with-james-bradley
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