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Category: Guest Poets 2025

Guest Poets at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival 2025

Liz Winfield Poet

Liz Winfield

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 8, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
Liz Winfield is a Tasmanian poet living in Hobart’s Northern suburbs. Her poetry collections are Too Much Happens, Cornford Press, 2003 (assisted by an Arts Tasmania grant in 2000); Catalogue of Love,…
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Les Wicks Poet

Les Wicks

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
Les has performed across the globe, with work published or broadcast in 39 countries, 17 languages, and over 500 outlets. Author of 15 poetry collections, including Time Taken – New & Selected…
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Kim Neilsen Creeley Poet

Kim Nielsen-Creeley

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
Born in Queenstown, the copper heartland of Lutruwita/Tasmania, Kim’s poetry is rooted in place—forests, rivers, rail lines and industrial scars. Her work explores the layered intersections of land, memory, and language, shaped…
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Christopher “Kit” Kelen

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a poet and painter, resident on Worimi lands, in the Myall Lakes of NSW, Australia. Published widely since the seventies, he has more than a dozen full length…
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Alex McKeown

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
Alex McKeown is a Tasmanian poet, translator, playwright and software engineer. His work has appeared in Island, Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite and The Canberra Times. His chapbook of translations from the…
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Erin Coull

Erin Coull

Posted on: September 7, 2025 Last updated on: September 7, 2025 Written by: Lisa Wright Categorized in: Festival 2025, Guest Poets 2025, Poets
Erin is a writer and student based in nipaluna, lutruwita. She is studying a Bachelor in Social and Environmental Economics, English and Writing at the University of Tasmania, while helping to run…
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