6-8th October 2023 Earl Arts Centre, Launceston 10 Earl St, Launceston, right behind the Princess Theatre Click here for a map | Click here for useful Theatre North Venue Information GET TICKETS:…
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Esther Ottaway
Esther is the winner of the 2022 Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry and People’s Choice Award in the Tasmanian Literary Awards. She also holds multiple national and international prizes and shortlistings, including…
Helga Jermy
Helga is an English-Estonian poet, now living on lutruwita-Tasmania’s northwest coast. Although living in a small village close to farmland and beaches, she also regularly spends time in Melbourne, thus enjoying both…
David Hallett
David has been writing and performing poetry since the 1970s. Winner of the 2019 Reciter of the Year award, twice winner of the Poetry Olympics at the Sydney Writers Festival, plus Woodford…
Tug Dumbly
Tug Dumbly is the pen and stage name of Geoff Forrester, a Nowra-born poet and performer who has lived in Sydney for decades. He has worked extensively in radio, venues and schools,…
Kimberley K Williams
Kimberley is the author of three books: Still Lives (Life Before Man/Gazebo Books, 2022), Sometimes a Woman (Recent Work Press, 2021) and Finally, the Moon, (Stephen F Austin University Press, 2017). Still…
Rebecca Rushbrook
Rebecca is an award-winning poet, living and working in Lismore, NSW. She was a NSW finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam, winner of the Nimbin Performance Poetry Cup and three times winner…
Pamela Leach
Pamela Leach, PhD is a Tasmanian poet who engages culture, social justice, migration, gender, environment, ability and spirituality in her writing. She has been published in journals including Quadrant, Island, The Mozzie,…
Brendan Ryan
Brendan lives in Australia. His poetry, reviews and essays have been published in literary journals and newspapers, including The Best Australian Poems series (Black Inc), Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher and Wattman) and…
Myron Lysenko
A Ukrainian Australian, Myron began to write poetry in 1982 and became a professional poet in 1989. His poems have been published over 600 times in literary journals in Australia and overseas,…
Welcome to the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2022
Remembering Tim Thorne The Tasmanian Poetry Festival was founded by Tim Thorne, a remarkable poet and person. With his wife Stephanie, Tim organised the Tasmanian Poetry Festival over several decades, and it…
2022 Festival Pass
The 2022 Tas Poetry Festival Pass includes: Friday 30th Sept: FESTIVAL LAUNCH – 7.30 pm, Hotel Grand Chancellor Saturday 1st Oct: SATURDAY SESSION – GUEST POETS – 10 am – 2 pm,…
2022 Festival Launch
Meet, greet and hear the Festival Guest Poets – David Mason Ren Alessandra Myron Lysenko Anne Kellas Daniel J. Townsend Therese Corfiatis Fleassy Malay Guest poet profiles – read these in the…
2022 Saturday Session Guest Poets
Hear our guest poets read/perform: Anne Kellas Thomas Bailey David Mason Ren Alessandra Fleassy Malay Daniel J. Townsend Therese Corfiatis Guest poet profiles – read these in the Festival Programme Andrew Hardy…
New Voices in Poetry (2022)
Presenting “New Voices” in poetry, giving a stage to rising poets on the current circuit. With special guest poets: David Mason Therese Corfiatis Guest poet profiles – read these in the Festival…
Poetry Cup (2022)
Who will win the coveted Poetry Cup this year? Get your raunchiest poems out of hiding, and bring your friends and family to get loud and clapping, foot stomping and yelling. Poems…















