Presented by the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2022: Songs and music brought to the stage by leading Tasmanian musicians including Lucie Thorne, Daniel J Townsend, Sheyana, Edwina Blush, Kath Ellis, Jimmy Harrison, Scott…
Author: Festivale Evie (page 4)
Paint and Sip with Ekphrastic Poetry
Discover the inner artist while spending time with your friends, family or significant other. With a drink in one hand and a paintbrush in the other you can create your own masterpiece.…
Poetry Workshop with Ren Alessandra
Join us if you’re keen to expand your repertoire with creative access points, crafting exercises and strategies to find something to write about every time. It’s for the writer who might feel…
Poetry Workshop with Anne Kellas: The Invisible Poem
When writing poetry, how do we get the balance right between the pull of our own “earthly history” and that of the mystery of the “invisible”? This workshop aims to help find…
Andrew Hardy Youth Poetry Prize
This award for young Tasmanian poets remembers Andrew Hardy, who died in 1997, at the age of 22. Tim Thorne said this of Andrew: Andrew Hardy was not only a poet of…
Programme – Tas Poetry Festival 2022
Programme includes TPF 2022 Guest Poet profiles. Use the download icon on the toolbar to download this Programme.
Guest Poets 2021
Meet our guests for 2021… Rachel Berger Rachel Berger is one of Australia’s most highly regarded, adept, and adaptive comedic talents working variously as a comedian, broadcaster, novelist, columnist, agitator and television…
Book Launches 2021
Joy Elizabeth’s Fragile Friday 26th March Joy Elizabeth’s new collection is a joy indeed–her beautifully wrought, understated moments resonate calmly with the richness and the glorious mess of life. Cameron Hindrum Fragile…
2021 Festival Pass Available Now
FESTIVAL PASS NOW AVAILABLE. For 6 great poetry packed events – a saving of 15% over the duration of the Festival. The Times They are A-changin’…. Tribute Concert to Bob Dylan &…
TASMANIAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2021
Now in its 37th year, the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2021 is to be held over two weeks from March 19th – March 28th. Due to Covid-19 uncertainties, our guest poets are all…
Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2020
The Tasmanian Poetry Festival acknowledges and respects the palawa people as the traditional and ongoing owners and custodians of this land and we pay our respect to all elders, past, present and…
Images from the 2019 Tasmanian Poetry Festival
Tasmanian Poetry Festival images from 2019 – a wonderful, vibrant series of events. Evie Wood – Director, 2019 with guest poets Tug Dumbly -( left) and Solli Raphael The lovely poetry of…
Poets on Pedestals
https://www.trybooking.com/BEJBH for “Poets on Pedestals” at Festival Launch
POETRY WORKSHOPS Fri. 4th Oct. 2019
Guest Poets 2019
Chrys Salt MBE Chrys Salt is a seasoned performer and a widely published and anthologized poet. She has performed in Festivals across the UK in Europe, America, Canada, Finland and India and…
Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2019
The Tasmanian Poetry Festival acknowledges and respects the palawa people as the traditional and ongoing owners and custodians of this land and we pay our respect to all elders, past, present and…