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Category: 2023

Festival pass for the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2023

Get your 2023 Festival Pass and save up to 20%!

Posted on: September 9, 2023 Last updated on: September 10, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023
Enjoy the complete festival experience with this year’s FESTIVAL PASS*. Passholders save up to 20% on the total ticket cost and have the opportunity to meet and greet our guest poets at…
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Rebecca Rushbrook, Myron Lysenko and Tug Dumbly kick off the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2023, with host Thomas Bailey.

Friday Night with Rebecca Rushbrook, Myron Lysenko and Tug Dumbly

Posted on: September 9, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023
From 7:15 pm Kicking off the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2023 are three entertaining and powerful guests: Rebecca Rushbrook, Myron Lysenko, and Tug Dumbly, hosted by MC Thomas Bailey. Prepare for a refulgent…
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Saturday Sessions: Deceptions and Perceptions

Posted on: September 9, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Book launches TPF23, Competition TPF23, Concerts/Theatre TPF23, New Voices TPF23, Open Mic TPF23
9:00 am | Open MicRegistrations open from 8:40 am 10:00 am | ‘Deceptions’A staged reading of Stella Kent’s play about Tasmanian poet Gwen Harwood, directed by Peter Hammond. 11:30 am | Guest…
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Launceston Poetry Cup 2023 at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival

Launceston Poetry Cup (Saturday Evening)

Posted on: September 9, 2023 Last updated on: September 11, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Competition TPF23, Open Mic TPF23
From 6:30 pm The highlight of the weekend is the iconic Launceston Poetry Cup. Open to all, our poets have just one minute to impress the audience with a piece of original…
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Saturday Sessions at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2023

Sunday Sessions

Posted on: September 9, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Concerts/Theatre TPF23
Jazz and Poetry 10:00 am | Ross Donlon and Steve BrianJazz backed poetry 10:40 am | Guest PoetsBrendan Ryan, Pamela Leach, David Hallet 12:00 pm | LunchA light lunch will served 1:00…
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Andrew Hardy Youth Poetry Prize 2023

Posted on: September 9, 2023 Last updated on: September 9, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Competition TPF23
The Andrew Hardy Youth Poetry Prize is awarded in memory of Andrew Hardy, who died at the age of 22, in 1997. Andrew Hardy was not only a poet of great potential,…
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Masterclass workshops at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2023

Join a Masterclass

Posted on: September 9, 2023 Last updated on: September 8, 2024 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Workshops TPF23
In 2023 Festival Masterclasses were carried out by Esther Ottaway, Kimberley K Williams and Myron Lysenko.
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Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2023 Programme

Posted on: July 8, 2023 Last updated on: September 10, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Programme TPF23
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 Ottaway

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
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…
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Helga Germy performing poetry

Helga Jermy

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
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…
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David Hallet

David Hallett

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
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…
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Tug Dumbly

Tug Dumbly

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
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,…
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Kimberley K Williams

Kimberley K Williams

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
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…
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Rebecca Rushbrook

Rebecca Rushbrook

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
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…
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Pamela Leach

Pamela Leach

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
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,…
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Brendan Ryan

Brendan Ryan

Posted on: January 1, 2023 Last updated on: September 15, 2023 Written by: Festivale Evie Categorized in: 2023, Guest Poets TPF23, Poets
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…
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