On 21 March 2017, 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, Cameron Lowe, Robyn Rowland, and A. Frances Johnson. The event was hosted by the Geelong poet, Brendan Ryan. (Below are photos of David McCooey, Robyn Rowland, and Brendan Ryan, by Maryanne Vagg.)