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25.01.2022 Join CLAIRE ALBRECHT and MICHAEL FARRELL for Couplet Poetry this Friday, brought to you by Brisbane Libraries: www.facebook.com/events/1194116210961188
24.01.2022 This morning's #PanaceaPoet was 2020 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize-winning poet MYKAELA SAUNDERS: https://youtu.be/jIXlIj9XQdg
21.01.2022 Grab your bucket of poetry-popcorn and catch the finalists of our Film+Poetry Challenge at our online screening night! We’ll reveal the winners of our open, regional and youth categories. Tune in at 7.30pm AEST on Thurs 26 Nov on QPF’s YouTube channel HEAD OVER HERE: http://ow.ly/QH5V50CrFFC
20.01.2022 EDIT: Hooray, our form is now repaired! Enter away: https://queenslandpoetryfestival.com//2020-qpf-film-poetr/ Have you tried to enter the Film+Poetry Challenge and had trouble with the form?... If yes, please email [email protected] we're sorting out some technical issues!
20.01.2022 Today's #PanaceaPoets feature is the 2019 Arts Queensland XYZ Prize-winner, FABLE GOLDSMITH: https://youtu.be/2dI1NAruyFQ
19.01.2022 Looking for inspo to pen some poetry? Want to win a cash prize PLUS be published? Respond to one of these artworks with a 12-line poem to win $500 and have your poem tour with QRAA! The Ekphrasis Challenge closes 30th Nov. Courtesy of Flying Arts. DETAILS HERE: http://ow.ly/zGdb50CoHYG
19.01.2022 The #QPF2020 Film + Poetry Challenge is open until 10 Oct but our free-to-enter YOUTH category has been extended to 24 October! Find out more: https://queenslandpoetryfestival.com//2020-qpf-film-poetr/
18.01.2022 Submissions to Brisbane-run poetry journal Blue Bottle Journal are open until 30 November: https://www.bluebottlejournal.com/submit.html
17.01.2022 VOLTA starts with a spark, with a free in-person event at Brisbane Libraries (Bris Square Library) on 5 February. We can't wait to hear from JUNE PERKINS, a multi-arts creative born to a Papua New Guinean Indigenous mother and Australian father. She was raised in Tasmania as a Bahá'i, and her work combines poetry, photography and story. http://ow.ly/bEjX50Df6XF
16.01.2022 Join poet, performer & activist AMINA ATIQ for a creative online workshop: draw on your lived experience, memory and sense of belonging to find your voice. http://ow.ly/JJF250BPEvx #poetrycommunity
15.01.2022 Panacea Poets: prescription poems | all pandemic long Presented by Queensland Poetry Festival Brisbane poet JANE FRANK's latest chapbook is Wide River (Calanthe Press, 2020). Her work has appeared most recently in The Blue Nib, Cicerone Journal and StylusLit and is forthcoming in Meridian, Grieve (Hunter Writers Centre, 2020) and Antipodes. She has been shortlisted twice for the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and was joint winner of the QPF Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award in 2019.... Facebook | JaneFrankPoet Website | janefrankpoetry.wordpress.com Buy WIDE RIVER: Under the Greenwood Tree
15.01.2022 Panacea Poets: prescription poems | all pandemic long Presented by Queensland Poetry Festival MYKAELA SAUNDERS is an award-winning Koori writer, teacher, and community researcher, with occasional forays into other types of arts. She writes across forms and disciplines, and has won awards for her fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and research. Of Dharug and Lebanese descent, she belongs to the Tweed Aboriginal community.... Mykaela won QPF's 2020 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize for 'Choice Cuts'. Website: www.mykaelasaunders.com Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jIXlIj9XQdg
14.01.2022 Gold Coast and beyond! Get ready for the first instalment of Avant Yard this Friday at Bleach Festival:
14.01.2022 DON'T MISS THIS! Voices of Colour have teamed up with SKIN DEEP COLLECTIVE to present 'Tales from the Colony'. Come along this Sunday 29th November to see this stellar production, with opening performances by Anisa Nandaula and 2020 Australian Poetry Slam runner up Huda Fadlelmawla! BOOK HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/810836043045775
13.01.2022 HOT NEW POETRY EVENT ALERT! Join us at Bleach Festival this Friday night at 7pm for AVANT YARD: DEMO DAY. BOOK HERE: http://ow.ly/YDDb50CnGAM... Kick back on the yard (COVIDsafe) with us at Chevron Island. Featuring Chloë Callistemon, Huda Fadlelmawla, Bec Jessen, Naavi Karan, and Zenobia Frost (MC)!
12.01.2022 Yesterday's #PanaceaPoets feature was the wonderful Autumn Royal: https://youtu.be/w9H7Ha9k_8M
12.01.2022 POETRY EVENT ANNOUCEMENT Australian Performance Company Everybody NOW! (@EVBODYNOW) are letting loose a wild bunch of free-wheeling wordsmiths of wisdom onto the virtual stage! GRAN SLAM LIVE is a FREE, interactive spoken word event, live streamed direct to the comfort of your own home. This bold affair will be hosted by award-winning comedian, Jenny Wynter, with special guest appearances by renowned spoken word poets Luka Lesson and Sarah Temporal, and music by Gordon H...amilton and Tom Thum. BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE... the stars of the show are a razor-sharp collective of Gran Slamming Poets (who just happen to be between 60 and 99 years young). Tune and Turn it Up on Friday November 27th for a BIG night IN! You’re guaranteed an entertaining and thought-provoking night of rhythms and rhymes. REGISTER NOW: www.everybodynow.com.au/granslam
11.01.2022 Calling all poetry and film lovers! Our Film+Poetry Challenge Film Festival will be airing TONIGHT at 7:30PM. TUNE IN: https://youtu.be/74svZwVDRG4 And after you've watched the finalists, cast your own vote for your favourite video poem! People's Choice voting will open here after the online screening: http://ow.ly/gYXm50Cu7OP
11.01.2022 Have you heard about La Boite Theatre's Young Artist Company? Their annual program, designed for students aged 1217, is now open to apply until 10 Feb! If you're a budding performer who loves to use your voice for change, this is the perfect program for you. https://laboite.com.au//for-young-art/young-artist-company
09.01.2022 Happy birthday, Ruckus Brisbane! Get your Grand Slam fix tonight at the zoo!
09.01.2022 GRAB YOUR TICKET NOW Get in quick to attend this online workshop with writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote. Learn how to craft a live performance that will rattle the hearts of your listeners! BOOK HERE: http://ow.ly/D9A150CnH89
08.01.2022 GRAB YOUR TICKET NOW Don't miss this online workshop with poet, performer, and activist Amina Atiq. Explore your poetry through the themes of lived experience, memory, and belonging! BOOK HERE: http://ow.ly/CVMZ50CnHtM
08.01.2022 Gold Coast (and beyond) friends see you this Friday (and/or the next!) for real, live, backyard free-range poets?! Book now: https://bleachfestival.com.au/events/avant-yard/
08.01.2022 This Wednesday! Mask up and join the Ruckus Brisbane crew for a night of chapbook-length slam sets:
08.01.2022 Panacea Poets: prescription poems | all pandemic long Presented by Queensland Poetry Festival AUTUMN ROYAL is a poet, researcher, and teacher. Autumn is the founding editor of Liquid Architecture’s Disclaimer journal, interviews editor for Cordite Poetry Review, and author of the poetry collections She Woke & Rose (Cordite Publishing Inc., 2016) and Liquidation (Incendium Radical Library, 2019). ... Instagram | @temperate.season Buy LIQUIDATION: https://incendiumradicallibrary.bigcartel.com//liquidation Buy SHE WOKE & ROSE: https://corditebooks.org.au/products/she-woke-and-rose Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/w9H7Ha9k_8M
07.01.2022 Queensland's slam poets did us proud at the COVIDsafe state finals, held at THE ZOO in October 2020. Tag yourself!
07.01.2022 GRAB YOUR TICKET NOW Don't miss the chance to attend this online workshop with poet and writer Kate Durbin. Learn how to generate poems made out of everyday language! BOOK HERE: http://ow.ly/c8w450CmDhL
06.01.2022 COUPLET POETRY is co-presented monthly by Queensland Poetry Festival, Brisbane Libraries and Qld Live Streaming. --- CLAIRE ALBRECHT is Newcastle-based poet. She was the 2019 Emerging Writers Festival fellow at the State Library of Victoria, and will be a resident at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico in 2021. Claire will also be a Varuna ‘Writing Fire, Writing Drought’ fellow later this year. Her debut chapbook pinky swear was published in 2018. MICHAEL FARRELL won the Queensland Literary Awards Judith Calanthe Prize for I Love Poetry. Michael’s new books are Family Trees (Giramondo), and an edited tribute to John Ashbery, Ashbery Mode (TinFish). Michael is a Sydney Review of Books Juncture Fellow, a Curtin University adjunct fellow, and lives in Melbourne.
05.01.2022 GRAB YOUR FREE TICKET NOW Come along to this online masterclass run by poet Nick Makoha and explore issues of identity, race, and migration in poetry. Don't miss out! TO BOOK: email [email protected]
04.01.2022 INTRODUCING Poet in (Digital) Residence (1/4): KATE DURBIN We're thrilled to welcome back Kate Durbin to the festival. Watch this space: bookings open soon for Kate's eco-poetry Zoom workshop (scheduled for 21 Nov. 2020), and for the chance to receive one-on-one mentorship from our Poets in (Digital) Residence. KATE DURBIN is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer. Her books include Hoarders, forthcoming from Wave Books in 2021, E! Entertainment, The Ravenous Audience, and ABR...A. ABRA is also a free, interactive iOS app that is ‘a living text’, which won the 2017 international Turn On Literature Prize for electronic literature. Kate returns as a QPF favourite in 2015, she was our Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence. Find out more: queenslandpoetryfestival.com/aq-poets-in-residence/ --- The Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence Program is a project of Arts Queensland, administrated by Queensland Poetry Festival.
03.01.2022 Panacea Poets: prescription poems | all pandemic long Presented by Queensland Poetry Festival FABLE GOLDSMITH is a gender diverse artist, performance poet and queer mother of three neuro-divergent children. After winning two consecutive WA finals, Fable represented Western Australia at the Australian Poetry Slam in 2018 and 2019. In 2019 Fable was awarded the Arts Queensland XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word. Fable continues to use poetry as a platform for awareness, un...derstanding and change. Instagram | @fablegoldsmith 2019 XYZ Prize @ Melbourne Spoken Word: https://melbournespokenword.com/the-2019-xyz-prize-for-inn/ View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2dI1NAruyFQ
03.01.2022 Win TWO TICKETS to Avant Yard tomorrow night at 7pm at Chevron Island! Listen to five brilliant poets perform. To enter: tag a friend you'd like to take with you
02.01.2022 As we bring our #PanaceaPoets series gently to a close, we're pulling out all the stops to celebrate with a plenitude of curative performances kicking off October. Today's feature is Brisbane's own Jane Frank - Poet: https://youtu.be/NObyDFONTEM.
02.01.2022 2021's black&write! Writing Fellowships (through State Library of Queensland) close on Mon 1 Feb. Don't miss your chance: two winners will receive $10,000 each, manuscript development and a publication opportunity with Hachette Australia Books.
