On 22 March 2016, World Poetry Day was again celebrated by the Geelong Regional Library Corporation with a reading by poets from the Geelong region who had appeared in The Best Australian Poems series (Black Inc). This year those poets were David McCooey, Maria Takolander, Alyson Miller, Joan Kerr, Brendan Ryan, and Anthony Lynch. Robyn Rowland’s poem was read by Anthony Lynch. The reading at the new Geelong library was hosted by the writer and artist A. Frances Johnson.