10.00 – 11.20am | Welcome by Colin Berry & Guest Poets: Leanne Boschman, Pam Schindler, Ross Donlon 11.30 – 12.10pm | Open Mic on the theme: “Landscapes of lutruwita-Tasmania” Hosted by Marilyn…
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Sunday Sessions
10.00 – 10.40am | Poetry and Jazz Poetry recited by Ross Donlon with Steve Brien accompanying on guitar. 10.45 – 11.10pm | Guest Poet Robyn Rowland 11.15 – 12.15pm | Guest Poets:…
Friday Night *40th!* Festival! Launch & performances by Sarah Lock, Thomas Forest Bailey, Moran Wiesel and Rob van der Elst
Come and help us celebrate this landmark 40th Anniversary of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival at this year’s launch party. Meet and mingle with our guest poets and musician, with drinks and nibbles…
Rob van der Elst
Rob Van Der Elst was born in the Netherlands and migrated to Australia as a child. He was ‘thrown in at the deep end’, expected to learn English without formal instruction. This…
Steve Brien
Steve Brien Jazz guitarist Steve Brien grew up in Sydney, Australia. Getting involved with jazz groups in the late 70s, he soon established himself on the scene playing with local jazz musicians…
Thomas Forest Bailey
Thomas Forest Bailey is a performance poet; he has twice won the Deloraine Poetry Slam and has been Tasmanian Poetry Slam Champion. Thomas placed third in the Australian Poetry Slam National final…
Bruce Penn
I am a poet, an artist, a performer and an occasional percussionist. I write short-winded, sharp, accessible poems,and Long-winded, blunt, long-and-winding poems that create journeys that may lose the listener briefly, but…
Sarah Lock
Strong in the belief that language and communication are among humanity’s most valuable tools, Sarah endeavors to provoke thought and promote empowerment in all of her work. Her performances, written works and…
Marilyn Arnold
Marilyn Arnold … (coming) Marilyn will be hosting the Open Mic session “Landscapes of Lutruwita-Tasmania” on Saturday morning (12th). You can catch Marilyn performing herself, as a guest poet, on Sunday morning…
Leanne Boschman
Leanne Boschman is a Vancouver Island-based writer living and working on the traditional territories of the Cowichan Tribes and Malahat Nation. She began to love poetry during her first year on the…
Moran Wiesel
Moran Wiesel is a performance poet, storyteller, and eco-somatic therapist. Moran’s works explore our intimate entanglement with the earth’s soul, inviting audiences on a wonder-filled journey of profound connection. Their performances sparkle…
Pam Schindler
Pam Schindler is a poet, bushwalker and former university reference librarian, living by the sea at Blackmans Bay, lutruwita-Tasmania, after 20 years in southeast Queensland. Anne Kellas has written that her poems…
Robyn Rowland
Poetry can animate everything, so that life itself breathes through the line. It can make us alive to something new or remembered. Poetry must connect, communicate, enliven, disturb and stir. From my…
Ross Donlon
Ross Donlon is winner of two international poetry prizes and the Launceston Cup, of which he is very proud. Other awards include the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship. He has five books of…