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Category: Guest Poets TPF23

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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Myron Lysenko

Myron Lysenko

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